ACCE is the world’s leading automotive composites forum. Airborne’s Commercial Director Joe Summers will be presenting 30 minutes about The Future of Composites Manufacturing: An Automation Case Study at November 2-4 at the SPE Automotive & Composites Conference.
Currently, there are about 30,000 parts in a vehicle, out of which 1/3 are made of plastic. We can easily conclude plastic has become one of the key materials required for the structure, performance, and safety of automobiles in recent years, with growth in plastic consumption being driven by light weighting trends for fuel efficiency and consequently lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The high absorption properties of plastics also allow the vehicle to meet stricter safety standards, while the use of engineering plastics allows for minimization of the mass of parts used in vehicles as they offer more design freedom compared to metals. Yet, composites are still associated with complex, expensive and not very scalable manufacturing processes.
Automated Manufacturing: A Case Study
At Airborne we believe composites to play a vital role achieving the sustainable goals of the automotive industry. As a world leader in enabling fast, flexible and scalable on-demand manufacturing of advanced composites, Airborne develops the next generation automated digital production systems, to make composite manufacturing easy, robust and scalable. This enables truly flexible and on-demand manufacturing and addresses the challenges traditionally associated with composites.
Airborne’s Commercial Director Joe Summers will share his insights on lowering cost and improving design and flexibility by implementing automated composites manufacturing, during his presentation about an automation case study within the section ‘BUSINESS TRENDS/TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS’.
More information: https://speautomotive.com/acce-conference/