An Industry 4.0 Approach to the 3D Printing of Composite Materials

摘要

Carbon fiber composites are lightweight,high-strength engineered materials that can be 10 times stronger than steel and eight times stronger than aluminum at a fraction of the weight of these materials.Composite manufacture has become a growth area for Australia in the past decade,leading to new export markets.However,in order to maintain this lead and momentum,the key challenge to overcome is to increase the rate and lower the cost of production.This can only be achieved by using automation and digitalization to reduce slow and labor-intensive manual processes.