Join Fives for a Featured Panel at CAMX 2024
CAMX – the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo – is the largest, most comprehensive composites and advanced materials event in North America. It will take place from September 9 to 12, in San Diego, CA.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Fives’ own Matt Zupan will be joining an expert panel at CAMX 2024 to discuss “The State and Future of Automated Inspection of Automated Composite Layups”.
Matt Zupan serves as the Business Development & Software Manager at Fives Lund, where he specializes in the COAST (Composite Optical Automated Surface Tracking) laminate inspection technology platform. Before this role, Matt worked as a Software Engineer at Micron Manufacturing, a contract manufacturing company in the automotive sector. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Matt will represent Fives on behalf of the team for the In-Process Inspection Tool COAST. The panel will discuss successes, challenges, and learnings from COAST’s first production trials and the path forward for the COAST product and the automated composite industry.
COAST: Composite Optical Automated Surface Tracking
COAST, the next generation of integrated measurement technology for automated layup is here. Take your fiber placement system to the next level. An innovative quality monitoring solution, Fives’ In-Process Inspection technology features:
- Custom design to seamlessly integrate into an AFP machine
- Inventive Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imagining technology creates 3D maps of composites surface
- Real-time defect measurement
- Real-time tow placement measurement and control
- Measures close to compaction roller minimizing optical variation
- Robust to a wide assortment of composite materials