By integrating Plataine’s Cut Plan Optimisation Solution into Airborne’s automated kitting system, composite material utilisation can be optimised to its ultimate limits resulting in minimised material waste and optimized factory logistics.
One of the key advantages of an automated kitting system is that it can facilitate the use of Plataine’s strong expertise in the field of digitising and optimising complex manufacturing processes using AI-based algorithms that create optimised cut-plans (nesting), with the ability to mix product plies using the same raw material and create an integrated method for dynamic nesting.
Adopting these strategies to minimise material waste and optimise factory logistics, comes to its fullest extent when integrated into Airborne robust hardware solution for automated kitting. The new partnership displays the ultimate example of system optimisation by perfectly aligning hardware and software.
Plataine and Airborne collaboration combines Plataine’s software and Airborne‘s automated equipment, allowing manufacturers to take part mixing to the extreme, thanks to the Airborne automated robotic cell that can handle the complex sorting and kitting. This ensures optimal material utilization, shorter production cycles and rapid time to market.
“Combining Airborne’s and Plataine’s unique and complementary technologies enables ultimate nesting and material utilisation for composite materials. For our customers, this will result in double digit material cost reductions,” said Arno van Mourik, CEO Airborne.
Avner Ben-Bassat, president and CEO at Plataine added: “The Airborne-Plataine partnership will be a real game changer allowing composites part manufacturers to enter many more applications than currently being used, overcoming the limitation of human operators to sort and retrieve the plies from the cutting table when dealing with highly mixed cut-plans.”
