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News archive: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH

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1 May 2025 Clamping element developed at Fraunhofer IWU for automated fixation and joining of thermoplastic carbon fibre composites in aircraft door components.

Fraunhofer partners cut aircraft door build time

The project team replaced metals with weldable thermoplastics and redesigned processes to create a modular, fully automated assembly system.

15 February 2024 The user can easily upload new kits and nest files, including a mix of parts, and the system will adapt all the instructions for the operator automatically.

Airborne streamlines composite kitting for Airbus Helicopters

The software takes the nest, kit and material input, and translates this into instructions for the operator to offload the cutter, to make kits with plies in the correct sequence and to store them in the dynamic buffer.