The autoclave is, perhaps, the most beloved and most maligned piece of equipment employed in the fabrication of composite aerostructures. It is beloved because, when used properly, it brings to bear on a carbon fiber laminate the brute force required to compress to a very small and harmless size the entrapped air and volatile gases that form voids in cured resin that otherwise would be problematic in a finished composite part. It is maligned, however, because the application of that brute force costs dearly — in capital, energy and time. Composites fabricators in aerospace and other large industries, such as automotive and wind energy, therefore, are in search of out-of-autoclave (OOA) manufacturing processes that can cross the mandated 1% void content threshold with less expensive, more efficient equipment yet achieve autoclave-quality composite parts for critical structural applications. When it comes to the aerospace sector, however, OOA usually means vacuum-bag consolidation of carbon fiber prepregs, followed by oven cure.