
M/s Vashishtha Research Pvt Ltd., the startup company incubated under Department of Aerospace Engineering IIST (by one of our research students) has successfully developed and delivered a 4 axis filament winding machine to IIT Jammu. The machine is capable of winding mandrels up to 1.5m long and 0.4m in diameter at speeds of upto 20000 mm/min. It is capable of accommodating 6 spools with 1.5L heated resin bath. An indigenously developed filament winding pattern generation software is also supplied with the product.