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News Release from: Vistagy | Subject: FiberSIM
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 April 2005
Software creates composite winglets
FACC is using the new Advanced Composite Engineering Environments in FiberSIM to design and manufacture composite winglets for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Fischer Advanced Composite Components (FACC), based in Ried/Innkreis, Austria, has purchased FiberSIM 5.0 software FACC is using the new Advanced Composite Engineering Environments (ACEE) in FiberSIM to design and manufacture composite winglets for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"In the past, FACC has successfully used FiberSIM tools solely for manufacturing", says Roland Zeilinger, Head of Design at FACC Vienna.
"As part of our overall strategy of streamlining the product development process, we will make FiberSIM an essential part of design, as well".
"With input from Vistagy customers, each year we have added important capabilities to FiberSIM", says Steve Luby, President and CEO of Vistagy.
"FiberSIM's revolutionary ACEE supports multiple new design methodologies for a wide range of composite parts and manufacturing processes".
"FACC has recognised FiberSIM's expanded design potential, and we look forward to helping them take the fullest advantage of the software".
FACC has longstanding expertise in manufacturing composite parts for aircraft.
The company previously used FiberSIM to generate ply lay-up data for automated cutting machines and laser pattern projection equipment to manufacture components for the wings of the Airbus A380.
The product development path for those components was complex and involved several data translations between multiple engineering software tools.
The upgrade to FiberSIM 5.0 is part of a broader effort to make digital design as integrated and efficient as possible.
FACC intends to implement the full range of FiberSIM's functionality, from preliminary design to manufacturing, including the following new tools in the ACEE: zone-based design for defining laminate specifications and requirements; dynamic generation of zone transitions and ply boundaries; generation of variable offset surfaces; and smart darting and splicing.
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