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19 October 2009

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VISTAGY’s Steve Peck to Deliver Talk on Developing Complex Composite Aerostructures at COE 2009 Industry Workshop

Steve Peck, VISTAGY’s director of product & market strategy for aerostructures, will present a talk entitled "Improving the Development of Complex Composite Aerostructures" on Tuesday, October 27 from 10:15-11:10 AM at the COE 2009 Industry Workshop for Aerospace & Defense in Fort Worth, Texas.

All trends indicate that composite aerostructures are continually getting more complex. This is due in large part to the fact that aircraft assemblies have large volumes of highly interdependent design information. Creating the initial designs and making subsequent changes to these complex aerostructures is both time-consuming and error-prone. In this session the attendees will learn how a tightly integrated suite of software and services for aerostructure development greatly increases the design and manufacturing efficiency as well as the quality of complex composite aircraft assemblies.

Following an introductory presentation, Mr. Peck will take a close look at the VISTAGY AeroSuite solution in action as a composite skin and substructure assembly is taken through an end-to-end process.

•  Beginning with initial thickness requirements, the composite skin will be developed including detailed ply definitions and the creation of the final solid. Transitioning into assembly definition, all joints, fasteners, and hole requirements will be captured.

•  Design requirements, such as edge distances and countersink limits in the skin, will be verified and producibility checks of the composite part and assembly will be reviewed to ensure manufacturability.

•  The as-purchased condition of supply for details will be generated as well as the intermediate states of the assembly. The demonstration will conclude with the generation of an AS9102 quality plan that is required for the First Article Inspection buy-off.

Prior to joining VISTAGY, Mr. Peck worked as an application engineer at Immersive Design, Inc., focusing on deploying solutions for model based technical documentation. He has held various product development and project engineering positions within the Thermoplastic processing industry. Mr. Peck earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

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