Presentation: Implementation of an Automated Kitting system

An Airborne presentation for SAMPE Europe 2020, by Airborne’s Lucas van den Akker, Casper Hofstede, Paul van Sighem, Patrick Schilder, Marcus Kremers and GKN Fokker’s Pim Tamis.

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Case study: Design and operational implementation of an Automated Kitting system

Kitting is a key process step in the material flow in almost every composite factory. While the cutting process is in most cases already automated with conveyor belt cutting machines, the kitting process is still manual. Airborne has developed Automated Kitting solutions and installed a system to GKN Fokker. This paper describes the design of the system, as well as the operational implementation at the GKN Fokker’s Hoogeveen site in The Netherlands.

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Technical paper: Unlocking the advantages of automated kitting 

In this paper we take a look at the traditional kitting process and the opportunities for and advantages of automating the kitting process. And, as a next step, we discuss how the automated kitting process could be extended to include pre-forming as well.

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Presentation: An automated and digital approach to manufacture structures

An Airborne presentation for SAMPE Europe 2020, by Anders Brødsjø (Airborne Composite Automation) and Jaap Dekker (Airborne Aerospace).

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Case study: An automated and digital approach to manufacture complex, one-off composite structures 

CCAT-prime is a 6 m diameter telescope with a surface accuracy of 10 microns, operating at submillimetre to millimetre wavelengths and sited at 5600 m elevation on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. In this case study we dive deeper into the manufacturing  solution that was needed to achieve the target manufacturing cost of the telescope structures.

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Presentation: Digital manufacturing & 3D printing

A presentation by Airborne on turning high-end composites manufacturing systems into 3D printers.

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