To meet the growing need for automated production systems, CompoTech has recently expanded its business to now offer custom built ‘turnkey’ automated fibre winding and filament placement machines with ...

Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an STM32 BLDC motor winding machine. This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. The ...

Automotive liftgates, or rear-hatch doors, have slowly been transitioning from metals to composites for decades. While it wasn’t until 2013 that the first all-plastic/composite liftgate, minus metal ...

Fibre handling and converting technology company Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, UK) has developed a way of winding composite fibres at a zero-degree angle to create curved and straight structural parts ...

Composites technology company Cygnet Texkimp [Northwich, UK] has delivered a four-axis filament winding machine to the National Composites Centre [NCC, Bristol, UK] where it will form part of a new ...

Result of winding a carbon fiber tube. (Credit: Andrew Reilley) Carbon fiber (CF) is an amazing material that provides a lot of strength for very little weight, making it very useful for a lot of ...

The new motor-winding system represents an investment of over $3 million. Baldor Electric Co., Fort Smith, Ark., recently installed a new manufacturing system for electric motors, shortening lead ...