UTComp, a specialist in composite materials inspection and engineering, is setting a new standard in quality control excellence with the introduction of QCAnalytix, the world’s first fully automated ...

Manual inspection of AFP layups takes longer than the machine time to create the layup itself and is a major bottleneck and cost driver. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) recently awarded a contract ...

An autoloader option is now available for the MX1000, a wafer-level automated inspection system that uses infrared optics for through-silicon wafer bond imaging and inspection. The integrated system ...

In order to detect defects in the surfaces of dry fabric and composite prepreg, this new vision-based tactile sensor roller prototype, TacRoller, is a three-colour reflective membrane roller-shape ...

As the trend to make things lighter and stronger continues to ramp up across many industries, it’s no surprise that the demand for carbon-fiber (CF) composites is greater than ever, too. However, CF ...

Composites have flown on commercial aircraft primary structures — those critical to flight — for more than 30 years, but only recently have they conquered the fuselage, wingbox and wings, most notably ...