Automated aerospace sandwich panels, FPP goes medical and meet us at CAMX! Dear friends of Fiber Patch Placement, After a short summer break our activities are back in full swing. Following our intense recruiting activities in spring, we are now onboarding new colleagues – two of them you get to know in this newsletter.…
From patch to patient: FPP goes medical Due to its excellent specific weight-related properties as well as outstanding fatigue resistance, fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) plays a major role in the production of customized medical device structures. Especially for heavily loaded extracorporeal parts like prosthetics and orthotics, it is the material of choice. Germany is one…
It all started with a master thesis: Welcome, Nikola! Nikola Mirchev joined our software team as a working student at the end of April this year. We are happy that he decided to work full time at Cevotec as a Software Engineer after finishing his master thesis at the end of October. After Nikola already…
About the automation of complex aerospace sandwich panels Last year, we launched the grant-supported project ACoSaLUS (automated composite sandwich lay-up system) together with GKN Aerospace Deutschland GmbH, TUM – Chair of Carbon Composites, SGL Carbon, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Vabatec GmbH. True to its name, the aim of the project is to automate…
From chess to ARTIST STUDIO: Welcome, Alex! Our cevoTeam is growing fast and beginning of September, the software team got a new colleague. Oleksandr Tkachenko, preferably called Alex, graduated from Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, with a Bachelor’s in computer science. Afterwards, he worked on various projects for multiple desktop and…
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…