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Building Aircraft Structures Instead of Assembling Them This video shows Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) manufacturing the lower half of a thermoplastic composite aircraft fuselage. Traditional aircraft fuselages are built by assembling hundreds of individual parts with thousands of mechanical fasteners. Composite manufacturing is gradually changing that approach by producing...

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EagleEye2 months ago

cost and etc? probably huge…if accuracy high is a strong safe product! repair are costly or imposible in some areas

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This is where aerospace composites are heading. Bigger integrated structures, fewer joints, welded thermoplastic sections. Production rates go up when you stop drilling and riveting for weeks.

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Leaving Gladstone after last nights branch meeting. On the way out I stopped at Rio Tinto’s Alumina Refinery. The bauxite ore for Rio is sourced from Weipa. When bauxite was originally discovered in Weipa, the then State Government insisted that that the bauxite was refined into Alumina and Aluminium. This lead to the creation of the Gladstone refineries and is an excellent example of what government should do in preserving our Nations wealth. Given much of metal refining is now automated, the argument that Australia can’t compete with our neighbours in regard to manufacturing due to higher wages is redundant. Given Australia has access to abundant energy resources there is no reason why we can’t bring manufacturing and metal processing back on shore. Australia needs to start value adding to our critical minerals instead of letting them go offshore like Albanese has recently done. The lost upside value would be in the hundreds of billions. People First has a range of policies that will promote onshore processing and manufacturing such as abolishing payroll tax, restoring the military apprenticeship scheme and building coal fired power stations. You can read all of our policies at

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US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on possible F-35 sale to Türkiye: By the time you get to delivery of an F-35, you’re at the F-45. The problem with Türkiye was S-400s… a Russian missile defense system. Congress enacted CAATSA. President Trump walks in and says, ‘This is insane.’ Türkiye already has a defense business; the drone business for Türkiye is the biggest supplier of drones for Ukraine. They’re manufacturing F-35s; they were in the F-35 program with us. They have their own jets, KAAN jets, and while we don't sell them jets, they buy Eurojets. They're manufacturing F-35s; they were in the F-35 program with us. They have four F-35s that are hangared in California. They were a big part of the fuselage assembly program.

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FL360aero

14,600 views • 19 days ago

Humanoid robots are starting to build humanoid robots. UBTECH just put a 14,000㎡ humanoid robot factory into operation in Liuzhou, China, with a designed takt time of one humanoid every 10 minutes and planned annual capacity in the tens of thousands. What’s interesting is that humanoid robots are already part of the production process. Cruzr Y1 and Y2 handle depalletizing, palletizing, material feeding and transport, using 3D vision to adapt to shifted boxes and changing pallet patterns. On the assembly side, Walker S2 and Cruzr are produced on the same line alongside cobots, autonomous logistics vehicles and assistive manipulators. The factory also has a 65㎡ automated warehouse capable of storing 112 humanoids, with AGVs, industrial robots and stacker cranes coordinated as one system. Before production, the factory was modeled 1:1 in Siemens Plant Simulation, covering workstations, racks and AGVs. Each robot gets its own SN, with components, batches, assembly parameters and inspection data tracked all the way to delivery. Humanoid robots are now entering automated manufacturing at the 10,000-unit scale. The next milestone may be when they can take part in enough of the assembly, testing and production process to truly build robots themselves.
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Humanoid robots are starting to build humanoid robots. UBTECH just put a 14,000㎡ humanoid robot factory into operation in Liuzhou, China, with a designed takt time of one humanoid every 10 minutes and planned annual capacity in the tens of thousands. What’s interesting is that humanoid robots are already part of the production process. Cruzr Y1 and Y2 handle depalletizing, palletizing, material feeding and transport, using 3D vision to adapt to shifted boxes and changing pallet patterns. On the assembly side, Walker S2 and Cruzr are produced on the same line alongside cobots, autonomous logistics vehicles and assistive manipulators. The factory also has a 65㎡ automated warehouse capable of storing 112 humanoids, with AGVs, industrial robots and stacker cranes coordinated as one system. Before production, the factory was modeled 1:1 in Siemens Plant Simulation, covering workstations, racks and AGVs. Each robot gets its own SN, with components, batches, assembly parameters and inspection data tracked all the way to delivery. Humanoid robots are now entering automated manufacturing at the 10,000-unit scale. The next milestone may be when they can take part in enough of the assembly, testing and production process to truly build robots themselves.

CyberRobo

18,068 views • 1 month ago

⚡️🇷🇺🏭 Rostec's unique machine creates an aircraft engine part right at the Metalloobrabotka exhibition. The video shows one of the most technologically advanced domestic machines: the 2000VH five-axis milling machining center. It was created for the needs of the aircraft, engine and defense industries. During the Metalloobrabotka-2025 exhibition, the machine processes one of the most important elements of an aircraft engine - an impeller (blade machine). Such parts are used in aircraft engines. The diameter of this aluminum product is 70 cm, the height is about 30 cm, the weight is about 15 kg. The machine copes with the work perfectly - pay attention to the screen! The equipment was created by our holding company "STAN" . The machine is designed for large-sized parts of complex shape. It is capable of working with products up to 2 m in diameter and weighing up to 5 tons. At the same time, the accuracy achieved is up to hundredths of a millimeter. The model is built on a high-rigidity structure, its internal cavities are filled with synthetic granite. As a result, the vibration resistance of the equipment frame is comparable to heavy cast iron. The machine is equipped with a Russian numerical control system and a liquid cooling system. The use of direct drives allows achieving high dynamic stability and eliminating backlash in movement. Among the built-in functions are systems for measuring tools and parts, monitoring processes and industrial safety. 2000VH has no analogues in technical characteristics among domestic equipment and will replace imported models at Russian enterprises. rostecru
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⚡️🇷🇺🏭 Rostec's unique machine creates an aircraft engine part right at the Metalloobrabotka exhibition. The video shows one of the most technologically advanced domestic machines: the 2000VH five-axis milling machining center. It was created for the needs of the aircraft, engine and defense industries. During the Metalloobrabotka-2025 exhibition, the machine processes one of the most important elements of an aircraft engine - an impeller (blade machine). Such parts are used in aircraft engines. The diameter of this aluminum product is 70 cm, the height is about 30 cm, the weight is about 15 kg. The machine copes with the work perfectly - pay attention to the screen! The equipment was created by our holding company "STAN" . The machine is designed for large-sized parts of complex shape. It is capable of working with products up to 2 m in diameter and weighing up to 5 tons. At the same time, the accuracy achieved is up to hundredths of a millimeter. The model is built on a high-rigidity structure, its internal cavities are filled with synthetic granite. As a result, the vibration resistance of the equipment frame is comparable to heavy cast iron. The machine is equipped with a Russian numerical control system and a liquid cooling system. The use of direct drives allows achieving high dynamic stability and eliminating backlash in movement. Among the built-in functions are systems for measuring tools and parts, monitoring processes and industrial safety. 2000VH has no analogues in technical characteristics among domestic equipment and will replace imported models at Russian enterprises. rostecru

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40,122 views • 1 year ago