Call for Papers/ Presentations
Aerospace Manufacturing & Automated Fastening Conference (AMAF)
"Advances for the Next Generation Aircraft"
September 28-30, 2010
Century II Convention Center
Wichita, KS
AMAF provides a forum for the aerospace community to present and discuss current and future challenges, opportunities, and requirements of next-generation aircraft R&D, products, and systems. Technical sessions, panel discussions, and keynote presentations are integrated in a program that provides value to industry and government engineers, scientists, designers, program managers, operators, educators, and students. Abstracts are invited on a broad spectrum of topics applicable to Commercial and Military Aviation.
Please Note: There is a nominal fee for presenters and authors wishing to attend this Conference.
Invited manuscript topics pertinent to the aircraft manufacturing and assembly communities for this technical conference include but are not limited to:
Automated Fastening/Assembly & Tooling (AeroFast International)
- Assembly Fixture Automation
- Automated Assembly Systems
- Fully Automated Fastening Sub-systems
- Semi-Automated Fastening Sub-systems
- Engineering and Designing for Automated Fastening
- Fixture Design
- Robotics
- Tooling Advancements
- Automated Drilling
- New and Enhanced Fastener
Composite Materials and Processing
- Advanced Composite Forming and Joining
- High Output Composites Manufacturing
- Nanotechnology
- Next Generation Materials
- Low Cost Composite
- NDE and Repair of Composites
- Out of Autoclave Processes
- Multifunctional and Adaptive Structures
- Thermal Structures
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
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
- Low cost titanium
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 - 500 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.
| Critical Deadlines: |
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| Abstracts due to SAE | January 22, 2010 |
| Draft Manuscripts due to Organizers(s) | March 28, 2010 |
| Final Manuscripts due to SAE | July 22, 2010 |
