AutoSeminar Program

							   Seminar on Automated Manufacturing of Advanced Composites
           Sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of SAMPE
                             November 17, 2009
               at Hitco Carbon Composites, Gardena, CA


Seminar Chair: Leslie Cohen, Hitco Carbon Composites

8:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Welcome
     Peter Hoffman, President, Hitco Carbon Composites

9:15 Keynote Speaker
     Randall Kappesser, MAG Cincinnati
     The Role of Automation in the Next Generation of Aerospace Structures

10:00 Mark Roman, Cytec Engineered Materials
      New Materials for Automated Manufacture

10:45 Mark Shuart, NASA LaRC
      The Role of Automation in the NASA Mega Structures Program

11:30 1:30 Lunch and Exhibits

1:30 John Melilli, Accudyne Systems
     Optimization of AFP/ATL Application Heads – OOA Application

2:00 John Janicki, Janicki Industries
     Manufacturing Tooling in the 21st Century

2:30 Lee Courtney, Thermal Equipment Corporation
     Design, Build, and Installation of Mega Autoclaves

3:00 Break

3:30 John Newman, Laser Technology, Inc.
     Shearography NDT of Large Structures

4:15 Nick Sowa, MISTRAS
     Automated NDT of Aerospace Structures

5:00 Seminar Ends