SAMBA Pro for pressure vessels, trapezoid patches, new FPP Webinar and welcome Chary to the team! Dear friends of Fiber Patch Placement, Summer is here and the 2nd quarter of 2022 comes to close. It was a busy and exciting quarter! Not only did we have the chance to meet many of you in…
Trapezoid patches for PATCH ARTIST One application where the use of Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) is very beneficial are dome reinforcements for composite pressure vessels, for example for hydrogen storage. With our CAD-CAM software ARTIST STUDIO, we support the whole virtual product development. The module PATCH ARTIST facilitates engineers to create an optimized FPP laminate.…
Welcome Chary to the cevoTeam! Beginning of June, our Application Development team got a new colleague: Bhargava Chary Ambarepeta. After finishing his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University in Hyderabad, India, Chary has done his masters at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern focusing on composite materials and plastic processing. Afterwards, he worked…
SAMBA Systems installed in USA & Italy, new ARTIST STUDIO features, the H2 tank revolution and FPP for aerostructures Dear friends of Fiber Patch Placement, The current year started at high pace for us. Already mid-February, our teams installed the first FPP system on U.S. soil at NIAR, directly followed by a second installation…
ARTIST STUDIO release 2022: New FE-module and further extensions The backbone of Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology is our CAD-CAM Software ARTIST STUDIO. It is the perfect tool for digital product development for an optimized patch laminate design (PATCH ARTIST) and automated robot offline programming (MOTION ARTIST). Since we want to offer our customers the…
Fiber Patch Placement in aerostructures: Investigation on material equivalency Fiber Patch Placement is an advanced technology for automated fiber lay-up of geometrically complex composites and reinforcements. The individual orientation of each fiber patch along load paths opens new potential for applications in aerospace. However, since the Fiber Patch Placement laminates uses discontinuous fibers, the…
Cevotec successfully commissioned a SAMBA Pro Prepreg system based on Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology to Leonardo Cevotec has successfully commissioned a SAMBA Pro Prepreg system, based on Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology, to the global aerospace, defense and security player Leonardo. Thanks to the adoption of FPP to their portfolio of automation technologies for…
SAMBA Pro FPP systems: 2022 updates and new features In the last year, we further advanced our SAMBA Pro Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) systems and developed powerful new features. Besides an advanced material cooling and an ultrasonic cutting unit, it is now possible to configure a system with two 6-axis robots for pick & place…
Cevotec is about to revolutionize the H2 tank production and therefore enlarging the team Cevotec is known for manufacturing innovations in composites. Based on Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology, the automation specialist enables multi-material lay-up of aerospace composite parts as well as improving storage efficiency of composite tanks with FPP dome reinforcement. To handle the…
NIAR (Wichita, USA) successfully commissioned Cevotec’s SAMBA Pro Prepreg system The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU) expands its portfolio of future composites production technologies with Cevotec’s SAMBA Pro Prepreg system. As the first Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) system on U.S. soil, it strengthens NIAR’s leading position in aerospace and…