Industrial Automation Specialist

Dorchester, Dorset
Joined August 2016
📅 3-4 November 2026, 09:00–16:00 📍 FANUC UK, Sapphire Way, Ansty Park, Coventry CV7 9DR 🤖 FANUC's Open House is about making automation practical. There'll be live demonstrations and panel discussions with FANUC specialists, industry bodies and manufacturers who have already brought automation into their businesses. 👀 On the Loop Technology stand, you'll be able to see the FibreFORM 2x1 up close. This smaller FibreFORM configuration is constituent part of our FibreLINE 2x1 product. It's designed for smaller aerostructures such as flaps, slats and ailerons, delivering 3D conformal layup at extremely high rates. Similar technology is also available as a 2D pick-and-place system, for ultra high rate manufacture of drone components, automotive panels, composite structures for the transport industry and much more. Come and visit our stand to talk to Global Head of Sales, Matt Hardman, Technical Sales Engineer, Adam White and Marketing Manager, Tom Turner, about FibreFORM, and how our wider expertise in robotics, machine vision and motion control, can help tackle your toughest manufacturing challenges. 👉 Book your free place: events.fanuc.eu/Automation_t…
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🤖 For large, complex, or frequently changing parts, robotic machining is outperforming traditional CNC machines. Industrial robots can be reprogrammed quickly and approach a workpiece from any angle, cutting the time spent on changeovers, fixtures, and set-ups. 💰 They cover large working envelopes at a fraction of the capital cost of a fixed gantry CNC, and can be reconfigured or redeployed as requirements change instead of becoming outdated. With high-rigidity robots and advanced kinematic correction, systems like Loop Technology’s RoboMACH deliver the accuracy needed for carbon fibre, composites, wood, foam, plastics and more whilst staying flexible enough for mixed materials and low-to-medium volumes. ⁉️ When variety and adaptability matter more than fixed high-volume production, the robot is the more productive and cost-effective choice. Are you still specifying large CNCs for high-mix or oversized parts? 👀 Full article available here: looptechnology.com/why-robot…
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🏆Did you know Loop Technology won the FANUC Global Robot Partner of the Year Innovation Award in 2025? FANUC are one of the world's largest industrial robot manufacturers, and this award recognises Loop Technology's reputation for solving the hardest automation problems in advanced manufacturing. For 28 years, Loop Technology have built up a reputation as system integrators that manufacturers turn to when they've been told a process can't be automated. Our capabilities include: ✅Vision-guided robotics: 3D path planning, localised correction and calibration for automated fastening, metrology and defect detection ✅Advanced motion control: FibreLINE and FibreFORM for high-rate composite manufacturing, placing carbon fibre plies to within ±2 mm and scaling to plies over 30 metres ✅ Bespoke automation software: connecting equipment with no common interface, plus RealPATH for automatic robot path generation Robotic machining cells: machine-tool accuracy at a fraction of the cost, with options including iKCAM and RoboMACH HA. Loop Technology have delivered for aerospace, defence, renewables, automotive, oil and gas, logistics, food and drink, and education. We have facilities in Dorset, Bristol and Sheffield and now through Loop Technology US Inc. in Seattle, Washington. See FibreFORM live at the FANUC Europe Open House in Coventry on 3 and 4 November. Come and meet Matt Hardman, Global Head of Sales, and Adam White, Technical Sales Engineer, to find out how Loop Technology can speed up your advanced manufacturing. Read the full story: looptechnology.com/did-you-k… @FANUCAmerica
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❓ Need large-volume machining without the cost and rigidity of a traditional CNC? 🤖 Loop Technology’s RoboMACH HA delivers high-accuracy robotic machining out of the box - drilling, milling, cutting, trimming and ultrasonic processing on materials from cured carbon fibre and aluminium to wood, foam, plastics and sand-casting moulds. 💻 Built around a high-rigidity FANUC Europe M-800iA/60 as standard, RoboMACH HA is designed for demanding path accuracy on harder composites, while remaining modular and adaptable. Scale the guarding, add rotary axes or a 1500 kg seventh-axis positioner, and reconfigure for mixed, low- to medium-volume work that would be expensive or inflexible on a fixed-bed machine. ✅ Need even tighter precision? Pair it with ikCAM, Loop Technology's proprietary solution, for up to a tenfold increase in machining accuracy versus a standard robot - including as a retrofit. 👩‍🏭 And we don’t just supply the cell. Loop Technology delivers complete turnkey solutions: application engineering, installation, training and ongoing service - with a very quick turnaround from enquiry to a running system. 🏭 If your parts are large, complex or constantly changing, robotic machining can be the faster, more affordable route. Read more: looptechnology.com/robotic-m… #RoboticMachining #Automation #Composites #Aerospace #Manufacturing #Industry40 #FANUC @FANUCAmerica
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💫 Loop Technology US Inc. is at @the_CAMX! 🤩 We are co-exhibiting with @ZundAmerica1 on Booth L18 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, until Thursday September 24th this week! Visit the booth today to learn about FibreLINE for ultra high-rate composite preforming, integrated with Zund’s Aero Q-Line digital cutting - cut the ply, pick it, form it, and place it at material deposition rates that changes the factory-layout conversation. 🤖 But FibreLINE is only part of what we bring. Loop Technology US Inc.'s heritage is industrial automation across high-value manufacturing, not aerospace alone. You can learn more about: ✅ Bravura - a compact, high-power-density deployment system that takes tools into confined spaces other robots cannot reach, including sealing, fastening and inspection inside restricted assemblies ✅ RealPATH - automated robotic path generation from 3D scan data, so processes such as laser cleaning, painting, sanding and inspection can run without CAD or offline programming We offer broader automation for defence, renewables, automotive, energy and other high-value manufacturing sectors, built on the same robotics, vision and motion-control expertise. 🗣️ Talk to Matt Hardman Global Head of Sales as well as the Zund America team who can inform you about intelligent nesting, cutting, sorting and kitting to automated large-format aerospace production. If you’re on the show floor this week, stop by Booth L18. Full details: looptechnology.com/loop-tech… #CAMX2026 #Composites #FibreLINE #Bravura #RealPATH #Automation #Aerospace #AdvancedManufacturing
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🛩️ The aerospace industry is moving from metal to composites for the next generation of single-aisle aircraft. Making those structures at the rate the industry needs is one of the hardest manufacturing problems in the UK. Join us for 'Reach for the Skies: The race to automate high-rate manufacture of composite aerostructures.' ⏲️ When: Thursday 10 September, 7:00 pm ⛱️ Where: Hive Lecture Theatre, Coastland College (formerly Weymouth College) 🗣️ Speaker: Ross Horrigan, CTO of Loop Technology, Dorchester 🤖 Ross is an automation engineer with a career across automotive, aerospace and defence. Loop Technology have grown form a local Dorset business to an international machine integrator. Ross will talk about how the company is tackling the composites bottleneck with its FibreLINE system: robotic preforming, AI-powered defect inspection, and advanced automation for high-rate composite wing production. The talk looks at what it will take to keep wing manufacturing leadership in the UK. This event is organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Dorset and South Wiltshire Local Network and sponsored by TKMS ATLAS UK. Open to IET members and anyone interested. Attendance is free and you can register below: 👉localevents.theiet.org/regis… Please share with colleagues who work in aerospace, composites, automation or manufacturing.
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⏱️ Loop Technology US Inc. will be at @the_CAMX 2026 this month! 🤝 We are co-exhibiting with @ZundAmerica1 on Booth L18, 22–24 September, in Atlanta, Georgia. Come and talk to Matt Hardman, Global Head of Sales, about FibreLINE and how it integrates with @ZundCutter's Aero Q-Line cutting systems for ultra-high-rate composite preforming. He will also be able to talk about our broader capabilities across industrial automation and robotics. 🏭 FibreLINE cells takes material from raw roll through cutting, sequenced kitting, robotic forming and placement. Large multilayer plies replace thousands of narrow AFP courses. Production targets are beyond 200 kg/h, with dry-fiber breakthrough trials at the @NCCUKinfo on track to exceed 350 kg/h - built for aerostructures, wind blades, drones and other high-rate defense and industrial parts. 📒 @CompositesWrld has just published a clear overview of the system and our CAMX presentation, which you can read via the link below. 🖱️compositesworld.com/products… ✅ Matt and the Zund America team will be there to discuss cell layout, plybook import and whether the approach fits into your respective programmes and facilities. 💯 Loop Technology US Inc. is based in Seattle, Washington and is keen to collaborate with US businesses that want to leverage our 28 year heritage delivering complex custom automation and intelligent robotics to drive next level productivity and output in their manufacturing lines.
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🙌This National Composites Week, we’re proud to celebrate the materials and the manufacturing that make lighter and stronger structures possible. 🤖At Loop Technology, we specialise in automating the preforming stage so composite aerostructures, wind blades and drones can be built at rates the industry needs. Our FibreLINE system facilitates cutting, sequencing, picking, forming and placing of large plies with millimetre precision, delivering deposition rates of 200 kg/hr and beyond - a step change versus traditional AFP/ATL and manual layup. 🥼That capability is developed and proven in our AdAPT cell at the Loop Technology Centre in Dorchester, our dedicated R&D and demonstration facility for advanced automated preforming. It is here that we continuously develop and characterise the latest generation of FibreLINE, run customer trials on different materials and geometries, and refine processes. 🏆FibreLINE is installed at the @NCCUKinfo and at @sheffielduni @TheAMRC COMPASS (as part of the @Boeing-led IHSS programme), the latter located near Loop Technology Sheffield. We were honoured when FibreLINE was recognised with the 2025 @JECComposites Innovation Award in the Aerospace Process category, as well as when FibreFORM received the Composites UK 2021 Innovation in Composite Manufacture Award. Composites can only deliver their full potential when we can manufacture them at speed and scale. That’s the challenge we are solving every day. Happy National Composites Week to everyone in the community. #NationalCompositesWeek #FibreLINE #AdAPT #CompositesAutomation #AerospaceManufacturing #AdvancedComposites
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Big news for North America’s composite manufacturing sector! 🚀 We are excited to announce that Loop Technology US Inc. will be co-exhibiting with @ZundAmerica1 at @the_CAMX in Atlanta, Georgia! Join us on Booth L18 from September 22nd–24th, where you can chat with Matt Hardman, Global Head of Sales at Loop Technology, about how our revolutionary FibreLINE high-rate composite preforming system seamlessly integrates with @ZundCutter's Aero Q-Line digital cutting technology. Together, this combined solution sets a new benchmark for composite manufacturing efficiency: ✅ Unmatched Speed & Precision: High-rate automated layup coupled with pure electromechanical linear drive cutting. ✅ Large-Format Scale: Continuous, single-pass processing for large-format materials without dimensional error. ✅Traceable Automation: Automated ply pick-and-place with complete process tracking, ideal for aerospace, wind energy, defense, and beyond. Following the launch of Loop Technology US Inc. Seattle, WA, a subsidiary of the Loop Group, our team is excited to connect directly with North American manufacturers. ⏲️ When: September 22–24, 2026 🌎 Where: Booth L18 | Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA 📷 Read the full announcement: looptechnology.com/loop-tech… Will you be attending CAMX this year? Let us know in the comments or reach out to schedule a meeting with our team on-site!
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