Call for Papers/ Presentations

Aerospace Manufacturing & Automated Fastening Conference (AMAF)
"A New Reality- Reliability, Sustainability and Affordability"
September 18-20, 2012
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, Texas

In today's economic climate the aerospace industry faces "a new reality". Technology advancement... Affordability... Robust and repeatable... Cost efficiency... Process improvements... are all critical success factors. Moving forward with aircraft development to meet customers' needs, air framers must embrace both technology and efficiency concepts to be successful in a competitive marketplace.

AMAF provides a forum for the aerospace community to present and discuss challenges and opportunities to create first pass quality production systems for aircraft assembly and manufacturing.

Technical sessions, panel discussions, and keynote presentations are integrated in a program that provides value to industry and government. Abstracts are invited from engineers, scientists, designers, program managers, operators, educators, and students. on the broad spectrum of topics listed below which are applicable to Commercial and Military Aviation.

Please Note: There is a nominal fee for presenters and authors wishing to attend this Conference

Letter from the SAE 2012 AMAF General Chair*

Invited manuscript topics pertinent to the aircraft manufacturing and assembly communities for this technical conference include but are not limited to:

Automated Fastening / Fasteners

• Fully Automated Fastening Sub-systems
• Semi-Automated Fastening Sub-systems
• Engineering and Designing for Automated Fastening
• New and Enhanced Fastener

Assembly

• Assembly Fixture Automation
• Automated Assembly Systems
• Robotics
• Advanced Portable Tools
• Automated Drilling
• Hybrid Metal / Composite Drilling, Machining and Fastening

Tooling

• Fixture Design
• Tooling Advancements

Composite Materials and Processing

• Advanced Composite Forming and Joining
• High Output Composites
• Nanotechnology
• Low Cost Composite
• Repair of Composites
• Out of Autoclave Processes
• Multifunctional and Adaptive Structures
• Thermal Structures
• Composite Manufacturing
• Composite Tooling

Information Technologies

• Product Design and Manufacturing Integration
• Integrated Production Systems
• Software Simulation
• Virtual Manufacturing
• Direct Digital Manufacturing
• Analysis and Modeling Tools
• RFID
• Structural Health Monitoring/Management
• Advanced Metrology / Vision Systems

Lean Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management

• Lean Tools and Techniques
• Lean Implementation
• Supply Chain (the 4 w's)
• Dynamics of Supply Chain
• Lean Six Sigma

Ferrous/Nonferrous Metals and Processing

• Friction Stir Welding
• Advanced Material Joining
• Advanced Machining
• Additive Metals Manufacturing
• Advanced Forming and Fabrication
• Advanced alloy materials
• Advances in Titanium
• Advances in Aluminum

Automated Manufacturing

• Mobile Manipulator Manufacturing
• Robotic Manufacturing
• Intelligent Manufacturing

Sustainability

• Polymers, Coatings and Surface Technologies
• Standards and Regulations
• Environmental Compliance
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Green/Sustainable Applications

Authors who wish to contribute a paper please submit an abstract online through MyTechZone of approximately 300 words for consideration with Manuscript title. Please make sure to include the author(s) name(s), mailing address, telephone number, fax number and email address(s) with the submission.

Abstracts for paper:

• Abstracts for paper offers should include a brief description of the objective of the work, the problem it is attempting to solve, the approach followed, is explicit with respect to the type of data to be included, and summarizes the conclusions reached.
• Manuscripts offered should make a timely contribution to the state-of-art or be comprehensive review, be of high technical and editorial quality with conclusions supported by included data, and be devoid of commercialism.
• Offered papers shall not have been published elsewhere and, if accepted, contributors will not release them for publication through other media.
• Manuscript acceptance will be based on peer-review process that is organizer moderated.

For assistance with on-line abstract submission, please contact Joan Hudson jhudson@sae.org; 724.772.4003

To obtain an exhibition prospectus, contact: Vanessa Reddick, SAE Corporate Customer Sales, Telephone: 724-772-7591 or 1-888-875-3976 Fax: 1-724-776-4026 vreddick@sae.org