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Releases, collaborations, press coverage and engineering notes from OTOMcomposite, on AFP digital twins, real-time CFD and SPH.
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LatestOTOMcomposite Featured in JEC Composites Magazine N°171
JEC Composites Magazine N°171 features OTOMcomposite in its Startup section: founder Amin Zaami on taking AFP from simulation to a real-time, physics-based digital twin and certification by simulation.
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OTOMcomposite Joins NVIDIA Inception
OTOMcomposite has been accepted into NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA’s global program for cutting-edge AI startups, to accelerate AI-driven composite and CFD innovation.
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Standardizing DFM Sign-Off for Automated Fiber Placement
DFM for AFP is still done on the machine. To standardize it, we need one shared input, per-course temperature against the process…
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Catalysium on OTOM’s AFP Digital Twin
Catalysium met with OTOM founder Amin Z. to discuss moving AFP process development from the machine into the virtual world with OTOM’s…
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New Milestone for the AFP Web Platform, Together with Fraunhofer IGCV
Feed .xml or .dat/.src robot programs from different AFP platforms and the OTOM web application automatically rebuilds the layup and reports optical,…
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Residual Stress in Placed Thermoplastic Laminates: Predict or Discover?
Two identical layups can end up with different residual stress depending only on deposition sequence and cooling rate. Why it scales badly,…
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Why AFP Part Quality Changes at Corners and Course Ends
The laser power is constant, but the head speed is not. Every acceleration, deceleration and radius changes nip-point exposure time — and…
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Why Your Thermal Camera Can Be 80 °C Wrong in AFP
On the same thermoplastic tape surface, an emissivity setting of 1.0 reads 509 °C while 0.8 reads 592 °C. Why emissivity is…
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Smarter Greenhouses by Simulating Airflow
How should side vents and doors be set for optimal greenhouse airflow? We simulated it with OTOM CFD: better ventilation means less…
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Open-Source AI Models as a Second Opinion on CFD Results
DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama and other locally run AI models can now look at your OTOM CFD screen and help with engineering analysis.
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Airfoil Angle of Attack and Vortex Shedding, Live
Watch the force distribution shift on an airfoil and vortex shedding kick in, in real time, as the angle of attack changes.
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Mach 2 Shock Waves, in Real Time, in the Browser
A sphere, a rectangle and a triangle in the same supersonic stream: OTOM CFD resolves bow shocks, oblique shocks and expansion fans…
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Why Advanced Manufacturing Is Pairing AI with Composite Layup
Manual defect inspection can take up to half of production time. We are embedding AI in robotic layup tools to plan paths…
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Real-Time CFD in Your Browser: No $5,000 Workstation Needed
We built a web-based, real-time CFD tool that runs in your browser. No overnight runs, just instant fluid simulations you can poke…
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From the archive
2018OTOMcomposite joined the AVK, the German industrial association for reinforced plastics, building on the EU H2020 ambliFibre project and the University of Twente.
OTOM presented at the annual Engineering Mechanics (EM) Graduate School symposium in the Netherlands.
OTOM V1.06 to V1.08: batch-mode simulation, curved geometries and inline monitoring, demonstrated on laser winding over a doubly-curved mandrel.