Highly automated, scaleable, low energy consumption process for complex, lightweight, hollow CFRP structures

Riversimple旨在证明一种高度自动化、可重复和可扩展的方法的可行性，这种方法可以制造轻质、封闭的CFRP汽车车身结构；具有复杂的几何形状；没有5轴机器人，高压灭菌器或高压树脂传递成型的成本/能源消耗。利用曼彻斯特大学的技术纺织品专业知识，该工艺的目标是达到汽车压制钢板的复杂程度，但此外还旨在证明，在普通车辆结构中使用的多个压制板可以有效地取代为一个单一的空心编织结构。

Riversimple aim to prove the feasibility of a highly automated, repeatable & scaleable method of creating lightweight, closed section CFRP automotive body structures; with complex geometries; without the cost/energy consumption of 5-Axis robots, autoclaves or High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding. Utilising technical textiles expertise from the University of Manchester the process targets to achieve the level of complexity found in automotive pressed steel panels but in addition aims to demonstrate that multiple pressed panels utilised in common vehicle structures could be efficiently replaced with one single hollow braided structure.