VISTAGY & CGTech Partner for Automated Fiber Placement

By DE Editors

VISTAGY, Inc. (Waltham, MA) announced a strategic partnership with CGTech (Irvine, CA) to provide an integrated solution that enables composite airframe developers to create better designs faster with enhanced part performance and maximum weight savings.

VISTAGY's FiberSIM and CGTech's VERICUT Composite Programming and Simulation Suite (VCP) together provide what the company calls a “best-in-class” solution for rapid design and manufacturing iterations to optimize the development of composite structures produced by automated fiber placement (AFP) machines.

This integration enables designers to take into account AFP manufacturing requirements early on and to seamlessly transfer composite design information from FiberSIM to VCP software for creating and validating CNC programs for automated fiber placement (AFP) machines.

By enabling more iterations faster and better feedback later in the development process, firms will be better able to evaluate the tradeoffs between manufacturing complexity and cost. It will allow engineers to design specifically for the manufacturing process and allow them to take advantage of innovative uses of composite materials.

CGTech is developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software for numerical control (CNC/NC) simulation, verification, optimization, and analysis software technology for manufacturing.

For details, go to VISTAGY, Inc. or CGTech.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.