2011年9月1日 · Assembly of the first Airbus A350 XWB, an A350-900, is underway. Major fuselage and wing components will flow from Spirit AeroSystems’ Kinston, N.C. plant to Europe, toward final assembly in Toulouse, France, near the end of next year.

2020年2月26日 · A350 是迄今为止被认为复合材料用量占全机结构重量比例最大的一种客机，其复合材料结构重量占全机结构重量 52% ，超过了波音 787 复合材料结构重量比例的 50% 。

GKN Aerospace has created an innovative fully automated ‘moving line’ assembly process where automated guided vehicles move A350 XWB wing structures through dedicated work stations that carry out complex tasks including five axis machining, robotic drilling and laser scanning.

2011年1月1日 · Airbus requires that spar manufacturing methods involve the use of an automated fiber placement (AFP) machine. GKN will use AFP equipment supplied by MTorres (Torres de Elorz, Navarra, Spain). GKN already had developed a production method for wing spars, used to lay up spars for Airbus Military’s (Madrid, Spain) A400M transport plane.

2018年12月28日 · The rest of the A350 fuselage follows a more conventional panel assembly approach, but with some unique manufacturing process used along the way. The use of AFP, invar tooling and longitudinally incorporated omega (like the Greek letter Ω) stiffeners, more traditionally called hat stiffeners, are also common between the programs.

阿尔瓦雷斯解释道，AFP的速度优势明显，能够以高达50公斤/小时的速度进行材料铺设，而ATL的速度为20公斤/小时，这使其更适用于蒙皮制作，特别是为达成加速生产目标。

2010年5月1日 · For the A350, however, automated fibre placement (AFP) is the preferred lay-up method. This is partly because the toughened resin used in the Hexcel M21E prepreg flows less readily than that in Cytec's 977-2 used for the A400M spar, and partly because of the ability of AFP to produce more complex shapes.

2012年3月23日 · The range of possibilities were wide: manual infusion methods (RTM, RIM, RFI...), Automatic Taping & hot forming, or the new technology proposed, Fiberplacement or AFP. Two (2) options were considered: hot forming+ATL and AFP (both using prepeg technology.)

2015年11月28日 · The laying-up (AFP) solution suggested by MTorres achieves a remarkable productivity by shortening the cycle time of manufacturing for these parts, causing a reduction in the overall cost of the production process, which added to the improvement of the quality of fabrication of the Spars, shows the excellence of the product and service offered ...

2024年8月4日 · 目前A350 XWB系列民用飞机共有三种机型，分别为A350-800、A350-900、A350-1000。 三款飞机主要区别在于飞机总长度和座位数（图1），其中A350-1000是该系列载客量最大一款飞机，座位数可达350人。