Automated Fibre Placement, simulated

Laser heating, thermal history and layup kinematics – on your own machine, in seconds.

AFP · LATP · LATW · Realtime CFD · SPH

We help the composite industry design and build products easier and faster.

OTOMcomposite delivers the first process-simulation software for Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) — now extended with a Realtime CFD engine for compressible & incompressible flow and an SPH program. Predicting heat input, consolidation and part performance before you ever run a trial.

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OTOM AFP web digital twin platform showing a robotic AFP head, machine kinematics, nip temperature process window and optical/thermal outputs — AFP Web Digital Twin: robotic AFP head, machine kinematics and process window

Exemplary DFM numerical process report of the Fraunhofer IGCV funnel use case: thermal analysis of the whole layup next to the produced part — DFM process report: funnel use case with Fraunhofer IGCV

Thermal camera nip-point measurement, learning frames in the OTOM IR camera tool, and drone feature tracking — Thermal camera nip-point tracking and learning frames

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High-fidelity simulation of thousands of points

CUDA

NVIDIA GPU-accelerated digital twin

3 processes

AFP · LATP · LATW supported

Since 2016

Born from the EU ambliFibre project

The Process

What is Automated Fiber Placement?

A fully automated, single-step route to lightweight composite parts — and where simulation makes the difference.

One-step, in-situ consolidation

AFP is an additive manufacturing technique for lightweight composites such as continuous glass/carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP). Prepreg tapes are consolidated “in situ” in a single automated step — significantly reducing production cost and removing the need for post-consolidation or curing.

Predict and optimize, early

OTOMcomposite helps customers predict and design the right process parameters from heat input, tooling geometry and feed rate. Applied in early development, it reduces cost, accelerates timelines and improves final part performance — when changes are still cheap to make.

Realtime CFD · SPH

Realtime CFD for compressible & incompressible flow

Beyond AFP, OTOM brings a GPU-accelerated Realtime CFD engine and an SPH program — resolving both compressible and incompressible flow as it happens.

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SPH in action

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CFD Digital Twin · Case study

Optimizing greenhouse ventilation in Enschede

OTOM CFD digital twin of wind flowing around and through the vents of a greenhouse at Herenboeren Usseler Es in Enschede

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A digital twin of the Herenboeren Usseler Es greenhouse

For the community farm Herenboeren Usseler Es in Enschede, we built a CFD digital twin of their greenhouse. It shows how wind and temperature push air through the side vents and door, so the vents can be set for the best air circulation before anything changes in the real greenhouse.