Technology
The more complex the component, the greater the benefit of automation
Advantages of
automation In the 1990s to 2000s, the perfection- seeking America’s Cup teams gradually moved away from established boatbuilding companies to a world of dedicated and specialist teams, hand- picked and airlifted into a bespoke facility to build one or two boats and then ship their tools to the next project on the next continent. Persico Marine knew that the only way to reverse that trend, and continue improvements, was to show that exactly what had happened in car manufacturing could also happen in the marine world. Here it is important to keep in mind
that automated production is not all about high numbers. It is about it being perfect every time, whether that is only the first and second time, or the 1 millionth time. Persico Marine have the experience and knowledge of the Persico Group behind them, experience, accuracy and repeatability brought to bear in the Volvo Ocean 65 one design and ever since, Foresight and planning is critical to
success in manufacturing perfection. The design process has to consider the manufacturing processes. If the engineering drawings are completed with a handmade, artisan product in mind, then the gains from automated production are not there. Henry Ford did not succeed because the Model-T was built by the best coachbuilders of its time, it was because it was designed to be built on a production line. Had it been built in the standard methods of the day, the workforce would probably have redesigned it on their work benches, or walked out.
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The ASTHROS telescope Persico technology headed to the edge of space
inter-twining and compound curved roof beams allow for striking roof lines whilst not only keeping the structure light, but also managing costs where the equivalent steel or wooden structure would take considerably more hours and material to achieve. Using CNC machined tooling, the limits on the shapes of composite structures is constrained more by ideas than solutions. On the smaller scale, manufacturing in
composites also has the benefits of precision. Where laminate thicknesses are measured to the tenth of a millimetre and tooling is manufactured to the same level, resulting components can be constructed to a highly accurate degree and remain extremely strong. Current customers include NASA and
the University of Polimi for whom they are making a telescope and a rocket respectively… ‘We have been working withMedia
Lario S.r.l. on a very exciting project,’ says Marcello Persico. ‘Construction andmilling of steel spider, production and assembling of composite plates and camera support in CFRP (carbon fibre reinforced plastic) with relatedmachining OF ASTHTROS, a high-
altitude balloonmission fromthe NASAJet Propulsion Laboratory for the study of astrophysical phenomena. ‘Short for Astrophysics Stratospheric
Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter- wavelengths, the ASTHROS telescope is a high-performance 2.5-metre telescope that in 2023 will be carried to the edge of space via a stratospheric balloon. Its launch is scheduled in December 2023 from Antarctica and it will be the largest telescope ever flown on a high- altitude balloon. ‘The telescope is in fact composed of a
2.5-metre parabolic antenna, and a series of mirrors, lenses and detectors designed and optimised to capture light in the far infrared, that is at wavelengths much longer than those visible to the human eye. To do this, it will be transported by a balloon about 150 metre wide at an altitude of about 40 kilometers, a height that will allow it to observe the wavelengths of light, blocked by the Earth's atmosphere. ‘For this project, we have put in play the
extensive experience, garnered over the years, in developing and constructing
Targeting 80+ knots - the Swiss kite powered SP80, a fascinating approach to achieving next level performance
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