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Standardizing DFM Sign-Off for Automated Fiber Placement
How are you handling DFM sign-off for AFP today?
Design for Manufacturability (DFM) for Automated Fiber Placement is still done on the machine. Program a path, run a first article, read a thermal camera, adjust, repeat. But the bond is made once, in a process window only tens of degrees wide, and whether each pass lands inside it is set by geometry nobody checked first.
To standardize DFM for AFP, we need:
- One shared input: the robot programme itself
- Per-course (path) temperature compared against the process window
- Defects and thermal results in one verdict
- A portable report, produced in minutes
Thanks to Fedor Antonov (Layway), Pravin Luthada (Addcomposites) and Kilian S. (Fraunhofer IGCV).
Demo available: otomcomposite.eu/AFP_Demo
Originally shared on LinkedIn, including our full slide deck.