Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites( AMAC)
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Pioneering automation in advanced composites manufacturing to enable lightweighting and deliver global impact
Challenge
Industries, from aerospace to energy, face costly, inefficient and defect-prone composite production, which limits innovation and competitiveness. AMAC solves these challenges by pioneering automated manufacturing solutions that reduce costs, improve reliability and accelerate adoption. It bridges research and industry, delivering practical technologies that enable scalable, highperformance, lightweight composites.
Solution
AMAC’ s interdisciplinary team integrates research, advanced experimental facilities and strong industry partnerships to automate composite manufacturing and overcome barriers related to cost, speed and quality. It co-designs solutions with stakeholders, leveraging digital modelling, automated fibre placement and rigorous testing to create scalable, reliable processes.
By embedding tools into existing industry systems and building long-term partnerships across aerospace, energy, health and Defence, it ensures sustainability, accelerates adoption, strengthens sovereign capability and translates research into practical technologies with realworld impact.
Target customers / end-users
• Australian Defence Science and Technology Group( DSTG)
• advanced manufacturers, including SDI Limited
• Australian Coal Association Research Program( ACRP).
Progress
• AU $ 17.24m in collaborative research translation funding in the past eight years
• full-scale propeller blade prototype tested successfully with DSTG
• a metal replacement lightweight composite frame solution for the mining industry.
Research Centre
11 active collaborations
Industry advisory board
Innovative research translation
Advanced Manufacturing, Materials & Design
AMAC focuses on automating composite manufacturing, turning advanced materials research into real-world products. By collaborating closely with industry, it codesigns solutions, tests them in state-of-the-art facilities and translates findings into practical innovations. Strong industry adoption across aerospace, transportation, health, Defence and energy sectors highlights its growing impact and influence.