Affordable and Innovative Manufacturing of Large Composites (AIOLOS)

The future demand of wind power requires a steep ramp-up of large component production to the offshore wind industry. Danish consortium has kicked-off the research project, AIOLOS, which aims to optimize factory output at low cost.

Due to the large demand for offshore wind in the future, component production, including the blades, needs to increase significantly. Furthermore, it is important to limit the need for costly new factories to ensure competitiveness. Consequently, new innovative development in automatization and digitalization seem to be an appropriate solution that can easily be implemented in already existing production facilities. The research project represents a paradigm-shift when it comes to addressing blade production and factory output. It will tackle the most important cost drivers in the production of large high-performance composite structures (>15m length) and aims to develop ways to increase production capability, flexibility and quality. The AIOLOS project aspire to: Significantly decrease both operational as well as capital expenditures (OPEX and CAPEX), Significantly increase factory output through acceleration, automation and digitalization, decrease production waste and reduce non-conformance of large composite structure production.

More information

Press release about AIOLOS project (danish)