Giant Composite Aerospace Part Manufacturing

This machine is the Mongoose Hybrid from Ingersoll Machine Tools. It is an AFPM, Automatic Fiber Placement Machine. Mongoose Hybrid can fiber-place, tape-lay and inspect a wide variety of carbon fiber materials from the most common to the most challenging including epoxies, BMI, thermoplastics, carbon fiber, glass fiber, and more. This is an appreciation post highlighting a manufacturing process that you might not have seen before. Video Credit: Ingersoll Machine Tools Camozzi Group About the 3D Printing Process 3D Printing, or additive manufacturing, is a process that utilizes a CAD file (typically an STL) to produce a 3-dimensional part. Objects are produced layer by layer using a variety of different materials and layer adhesion technologies. Types of 3D Printing 3D printing has evolved significantly over the decades and over time many different technologies have been developed: Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a common process for early stag