Webcast: How to Profitably Develop Composite Aerostructures

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Co-Presented by: HITCO and VISTAGY

Thursday, May 12, 2011
8:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC/GMT

Join Keth Houseal from HITCO Carbon Composites and John O’Connor from VISTAGY for an informative Webcast entitled: How to Profitably Develop Composite Aerostructures.  This Webcast will address the challenges that Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers face and how overcoming these challenges delivers increased productivity and reduced costs.

Hear HITCO’s perspective on how it has achieved a profitable composites product development process by reducing manufacturing costs and speeding time to market using VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® composites engineering software and associated manufacturing machines offered by companies such as MAG. Mr. Houseal will address the unique challenges his organization faces and how FiberSIM creates an efficient flow of data throughout the product development process.

The speakers will discuss in detail examples of manufacturing process improvements such as hand layup, RTM, forming, tape layup, and fiber placement and how these improvements deliver cost savings. 

You will learn how:

  • Recommended manufacturing process improvements provide cost savings
  • FiberSIM streamlines the manufacturing process, reduces costs, and gets your product to the market faster by addressing the specific challenges you face

Overcome your toughest product development challenges and deliver aircraft that meet specification on time and on budget.  Reserve your Webcast seat now!
 

Featured Speakers:

Keth Houseal
Lead Composite Manufacturing Engineer
HITCO Carbon Composites

Keth Houseal is the Lead Composite Manufacturing Engineer at HITCO Carbon Composites.  Over the past 4 years, Mr. Houseal has been an integral part of taking Boeing 787 primary structure to production by leading a process development team in meeting the strict requirements of the BAC 5578 process specification.  Prior to HITCO, Mr. Houseal was involved in building composite UAVs and composite open-wheel race cars at Swift Engineering.  Mr. Houseal holds a B.S in Aerospace Engineering (specializing in composite aircraft structures) from Iowa State University.

John O’Connor
Director of Product and Market Strategy for Aerospace
VISTAGY, Inc.

John O'Connor is the Director of Product & Market Strategy for Aerospace at VISTAGY.  Mr. O'Connor has served in many roles at VISTAGY ranging from application support and technical sales management to business development. Prior to VISTAGY, Mr. O'Connor was a Senior Design Engineer at Lockheed Martin where he led a variety of product design teams. Mr. O'Connor holds an M.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.