Your Advantages with FPP

Discover how Fiber Patch Placement can improve your production.

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Fiber Patch Placement – Innovation
in composite automation

Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) enables a new combination of productivity, flexibility and costs. This technology offers efficiency even at low volumes through flexible and scalable automation. Adapted to the size and complexity of a component, the technology works additively in “sensible increments”, so called fiber patches. This enables automation for complex 3D shapes, multi-material laminates and locally reinforcements, resulting in efficient lightweight solutions with a remarkably improved buy-to-fly ratio, also due to the low process related material scrap.

Advantages

Your benefits with FPP

100% Raw material and placement control

20% – 60% Cost saving compared to hand lay-up

Multi-material Lay-up capabilities (carbon, glass, adhesives, etc.)

100% Automation for complex 3D shapes

Digitized Process chain

Productivity Due to short retooling times and quick gripper changes

How to get started with Fiber Patch Placement?

Includes manufacturability assessment, unit cost & time analysis, benefits & ROI estimation. This service is complimentary for you.

How much does your application benefit from FPP?

Includes virtual studies, application and demonstrator development, equipment customization, and more.

How do you best develop & test your FPP application?

Includes SAMBA lay-up systems, ARTIST STUDIO software, customized patch grippers, quality control systems, and more.

Which system configuration is best for your application?

You got questions?

Contact us to explore the benefits of Fiber Patch Placement for your specific component and production process. We offer a cost-free evaluation and economic analysis for your application with FPP. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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