The Automated Composite Manufacturing Pilot Plant

The ‘Automated Composite Manufacturing Pilot Plant’ is widely regarded as a key step in developing expert knowledge of composites in the Netherlands. Composites are increasing replacing steel or aluminium parts in the aviation industry; moreover, composites are often stronger, more sustainable, less expensive, and capable of being applied in a wide variety of areas.
The ACM Pilot Plant allows further robotification of the production of composite landing gear components. In a wider context, the plant will focus on producing composites reinforced with industrial resins, for which the plant is outfitted with ultra-modern equipment, including one of the largest robotic composite fibre braiding machines in Europe.
The ACM Pilot Plant is open to companies that want to produce their composites on a large scale, including to companies that are active outside the aviation sector. The unique knowledge and facilities available in Marknesse are ideally suited for developing the most (cost-) efficient manufacturing methods. It is often precisely this last step - between a prototype and launching the product - that proves so difficult in bringing innovations to market.
This new facility derives from a Public-Private Partnership between Fokker Landing Gear and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the province of Flevoland and the Noordoostpolder municipality. This Pilot Plant is the embodiment of the ‘golden triangle’ between government, industry and knowledge institutions. The ACM Pilot Plant is part of Smart Industry Fieldlab Flexible Manufacturing’, for which plans for further development are currently being devised.

[@dmaass99]

Cool and exciting. I've been in composites for 40 years and never realized what a dramatic career it can be until I saw this video! :-)

[@Bob-dx3jh]

Lol

[@eriktempelman2097]

Mooie video zeg, zeer indrukwekkend!

[@luigitrane8377]

Grande e l'impegno che porti x il made in itayl

[@NianmengHan]

very cool

[@lenaphommachanh6169]

Nice!

[@keesjeization]

Cool!

[@zachprimedeluxe6276]

Cool

[@DEEPMALICK47]

plastics is the future... I am proud to be a family member of plastics..

[@andreacodolini3640]

But the wrinkle at 3:07?

[@peternijhuis9626]

Outside of final product (within a cut-out). Repeatable at that one location, so okay.

[@krazzielaosboi]

Why is the door open? Shouldn’t composite material be in a climate controlled area