JEC, a resource for composites industry services, support, and expertise, is presenting its Innovative Composites Summit (ICS), a program of strategic, technical, and end-user conferences in conjunction with the JEC Americas Composites Show and Conferences at the Boston, Mass., Convention and Exhibition Center, Oct. 2-4, 2013.
This event will showcase the vision, expertise, and insights of top business and technology leaders from the global composites industry. The program is designed to help attendees understand macro trends affecting industry sectors including aeronautics, materials such as carbon and thermoplastics, and cutting-edge processing and design approaches.
The ICS conference will highlight the viewpoints of those who are breaking new ground in the composites industry. Top thinkers from business, technology and government will share their insights in:
Design & Processing Forums
- Productivity & Robotization session: Increasing productivity while maintaining the same level of quality, whether in the materials or the processes, is the main challenge here. From on-line quality control to post-machining, rework and repair, automation is the key to mass production in the composite materials industry. Because of the high-level quality demanded by applications sectors such as aeronautics, automated production has faced many challenges.
Application Sector Forums
- Aeronautics session: In the aircraft industry, composite materials have been more and more widely used. Indeed, they offer the possibility to overcome obstacles that have been encountered when using individual materials. The key improvement they provide is structural strength comparable to metallic parts but at a lighter weight.
Materials Forums
- Carbon session: Carbon fibers have long been specifically used in high-quality but restrained industries, due to their elevated manufacturing cost. However, their unsurpassed strength-to-weight ratio has made carbon fibers highly necessary in application sectors such as aeronautics.
- Thermoplastics session: Over the last few decades, thermoplastic composites have gained market share and importance. The unique properties of thermoplastic composites, such as toughness and impact resistance, along with recyclability have created a lot of new opportunities.
A program of more than 100 presentations the ICS will also include:
- A large Education & Skills Village bringing together universities, industry organizations, academic groups, market associations, and scientific centers. In addition, JEC is granting students a 50% discount to attend the sixth ICS conference, and complimentary access to the entire JEC Americas Exhibit
- A presentation of an automation process chain
- A live demo of large-series reinforced thermoplastics parts manufacturing
- A poster session
- Three days of technical sales presentations
For more information, visit JEC Composites' website, and click on the link for events.
Source: JEC Composites