Fabheads: Building Advanced Composites for the World’s Most Demanding Industries

Every metal behaves predictably, but carbon fiber doesn’t.

Its strength depends on how every fiber is laid, making it one of the hardest materials to automate.
That’s where Dhinesh Kanagaraj, Founder & CEO, Fabheads, comes in. Their breakthrough “adaptive tow placement” technology lets machines think like craftsmen, achieving fiber-level control at industrial speed.

With software-driven automation and smarter material handling, Fabheads is achieving 3-10X productivity, up to 40% fewer rejections, and reduced waste.

Watch this episode of Decoding Manufacturing to see how Fabheads is transforming carbon fiber manufacturing.

Chapters:

0:24 - Intro
0:28 - Revolutionizing the carbon fiber industry
1:05 - Misconception about automating carbon fiber manufacturing
1:32 - The single most important breakthrough in tech stack
2:07 - Brief explanation of what Fabheds does
2:50 - Misconception about automating carbon fiber manufacturing
3:27 - The single most important breakthrough in tech stack
4:00 - Solving the gap in India’s composite manufacturing ecosystem
5:15 - Carbon fiber 3D printing for aerospace
7:41 - Demand for robotic composite system in a manual manufacturing led industry
8:21 - Elaborate on the tech stack
9:33 - The hardest technical milestone
10:17 - Comparison of robotic automation to traditional manual work
11:05 - The best yet underappreciated tech stack
12:13 - Reasons behind building end-to-end approach
13:52 - What keeps high profile clients engaged to Fabheads
10:39 - The economic structure of Fabheads
15:21 - Biggest growth challenge
16:43 - Operational challenges with expansion
17:58 - Building talent in a niche ecosystem
19:10 - Failures and early lessons
20:36 - Vertical vs horizontal Industries
22:17 - One belief that needed unlearning
23:22 - Success for Fabheads in 5 years down the line
24:06 - Outro

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