Our automated solutions are efficient, easy to use and fully digital. We put all our composite manufacturing know-how into the design of the systems and into the software, to deliver you an automated process that is reliable and fast, with the right quality. We offer a portfolio of standard solutions and can also develop a dedicated industrial manufacturing system for you. Our ambition is to make composites manufacturing affordable and straightforward, to accelerate the adoption so that composites can help make the world more sustainable. Our portfolio of standard offers makes this possible.
Effortless layup of tailored thermoset prepreg laminates by combining tape laying, cutting and pick & place in a single cell.
Manufacturing tailored blanks or preforms, 100% net-shape, and for all composite materials: thermoset prepreg, dry fibre or thermoplastic composites.
Fully sorted and sequenced composite ply kits to increase productivity, improve material utilisation and reduce
work preparation.
Easy manufacturing of locally reinforced honeycomb sandwich panels, while reducing work preparation, material waste and the cost of quality.
Find out more about our automated solutions for advanced composites:
Automated Kitting
Kitting of the composites plies is a complex process. The operators have to manually keep track of the many plies that are cut from multiple materials, and collate and order them to make the kits. Our Automated Kitting solution delivers fully sorted and sequenced composite ply kits to increase productivity, improve material utilisation and reduce work preparation.
Two Kitting options
The standalone Automated Kitting solution is complemented by an integrated configuration. Both configurations offer significant opportunities for increasing productivity, improving material utilisation and automating the workflow. However, Airborne’s integrated Automated Kitting solution offers the ultimate potential for automation exploitation.
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Automated Honeycomb Potting
Our Automated Honeycomb Potting solutions automatically apply potting resins for local reinforcements in honeycomb cores. Compared to the manual approach, an automated solution is easily repeatable, more accurate and faster, thereby boosting the production output.
Automated Laminating
Our Automated Laminating solution makes the layup of tailored thermoset prepreg preforms effortless, by combining tape laying, cutting, and pick & place in a single cell.
Automated Preforming
Our Preforming solution can manufacture tailored blanks or preforms, 100% netshape, and for all composite materials: thermoset prepreg, dry fibre or thermoplastic composites. It enables clients to be more competitive by saving time and reducing costs.
Let Digital take care of it
As your partner, we at Airborne want to make it easy for you. With a variety of digital tools, we help you save time and effort on engineering, programming, simulating as well as testing. That is how we increase your productivity and flexibility.
We can also provide you with all the insights on the process and productivity, by harvesting data, advanced analytics and full connectivity to your factory digital backbone, such as your Enterprise Resource Planning tool, Manufacturing Execution system or your Manufacturing Operations Management system.
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The Digital Composites Manufacturing Line
The Digital Composites Manufacturing line is a first-generation breakthrough technology for mass production, converting thermoplastic composite tapes into lightweight laminates at high speed. Thus meeting immediate needs in the consumer electronics industry.
The DCML is an end-to-end automated manufacturing line in which all steps are integrated and was developed through a partnership between Airborne and SABIC (material science), powered by Siemens (digital factory technology) and KUKA (high-speed robotics). The line will be able to mass-produce lightweight, high modulus and low warpage, custom-engineered laminates as per thickness, dimensions, lay-up preferences and desired performance. Made with carbon-fiber reinforced polycarbonate composite, these SABIC laminates will be used for laptop covers.
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