SAMPE Journal - November/December 2020 - 6

FEATURE

Advancing Composites
Manufacturing

neXt Automated Fiber Placement: Advancing
Composites Manufacturing Towards a New Paradigm
Ramy Harik
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

ABSTRACT

Thinking about the future of composites manufacturing and the integration of automation and robotics, this
article represents the foundational digital workflow and data architecture moving composites manufacturing,
specifically automated fiber placement, towards a new paradigm. The article introduces the history and
evolution of automated fiber placement (AFP). Subsequently, the article details the work on categorization of
manufacturing defects, their assessment and viewpoint modeling. Further details on how to enact a new digital
workflow for successful and intelligent integration of automation within the complete lifecycle, encompassing
design, process planning, manufacturing, and inspection are covered extensively. Additional discussion creates
the data parallel model for the physics and based on that will serve as architecture to integrate the cycle
presented in previous coverage. It makes the argument to integrate data driven techniques to complement
the shortcomings of physics-based ones. Finally, the article introduces the future factories, or industries of the
future, laboratory at the University of South Carolina where technology is being put into actual practice with
the integration of a cyber-physical system defining the neXt vision of how manufacturing should look.

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