Divergent and Saab Deliver Large Additively Manufactured Fuselages for Autonomous Aircraft Tests

Divergent and Saab Announce Delivery of Fuselages for Vehicle Integration and Flight Testing: Record-Breaking Size for a Laser Powder Bed Fusion Structure

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Divergent Technologies, Inc. (Divergent) and Saab announced the delivery of initial fuselages for a Saab future product concept of an...

Divergent and Saab deliver large additively manufactured fuselages for autonomous aircraft tests

The fuselages were produced without unique tooling or fixturing, using Divergent’s fully digital, software-defined manufacturing assets. Divergent stated that its Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) integrates AI-driven design, industrial-rate additive manufacturing and universal robotic assembly to create structures developed more quickly, with higher performance and at lower cost than conventional alternatives. According to the compani…

Saab teams with Divergent Technologies to move towards adaptive design and production

Looking forward to the evolving needs of the defence market, flexibility and short development to in service time being among key elements, Saab teamed up with Divergent Technologies, a California based specialist in next-generation digital manufacturing, to move towards a new concept of design and production “Defence industry is definitely facing a transformation,” Marcus Wandt, Senior VP, Head of Group Strategy and Technology at Saab stated in…