JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #71 - March 2012 - 64

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> Booth T17

Cutting room solutions

As an industrial partner, Lectra supports optimization goals by providing a range of solutions that includes equipment, software and services specific to each customer’s business challenges. This makes it possible to achieve a “lean” cutting room through maximized production processes. This overall approach is based on Lectra’s experience with industrial best practices, gained from close relationships with customers and particularly from the application of the Lean Manufacturing concept developed in the automotive industry to its solutions and processes. Lectra’s cutting room solutions are suitable for a variety of production models (mass and diversified production, small and medium runs), and deliver significant savings in terms of production times and material consumption, while maintaining high quality levels. www.lectra.com The Efficiency Control Cockpit is a computer aided tool for data acquisition, storage, and analysis of production equipment. Decisions in the fields of production optimization, maintenance, quality assurance, and investment planning are supported by software modules («supervising», «logging», etc.) that can be freely combined. Fully automatic data aquisition and central data base storage of technical an operational data deliver excellent data quality. Structured data processing guarantees optimal transparency, even for most complex plants. ECC supports you in the optimization of your processes and in the maximization of your productivity. This is your crucial advantage. Data aquistion from the plant PLC(s) and applied sensors is executed via standardized interfaces, all data are stored in a central data base. The powerful FillMatrix technology enables cutting edge analysis tools: - Historical display of alarms and operating messages - Availability and productivity indicators according to VDI and TPM - Downtime and plant state analysis employing the Paret principle - Part traceability function and recipe change logs - Electronic shift log and maintenance tools These tools support the definition of measures to increase productivity and optimize processes. The effectiveness of these measures can be checked immediately. The functionality also ensures production processes and quality. www.fill.co.at
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Compose has delivered its first «autonomous» RTM tool – designed to produce RTM parts without a press – to one of its customers for a construction application. All the functions needed to produce a part are integrated within the tool: - a heat transfer fluid circulates through channels in the mould to heat and cool it down; - a mechanical, automated system opens and closes the mould – during injection, the mould is clamped by an ironjaw, a system developed and patented by Compose. To automate and better control the production process, sensors (flow, temperature, pressure) are integrated in the tool cavity. The autonomous tool has many advantages: lower production costs and investment (no press), space saving, enhanced ergonomics, cycle time divided by three, energy saving and shorter cleaning and unmoulding times. The tool is a plug-and-play production equipment that can be used for any type of composite applications to lower investment and production costs. www.compose-tools.com In the last 40 years FUS has been a supplier of a wide range of vacuum process materials. It has recently joined the VAP-Network and is a full subsidiary of EADS, who is the patent holder of the VAP-Technology (Vacuum Assisted Process). FUS offers a complete range of VAP-certified vacuum process materials and components. This results in an increase in process reliability for the user enabling him to make full use of the advantages of the VAP process. Its services also include: - Industrial Logistics (procurement and just-in-time delivery of certified standard parts and specific components for the aircraft industry, i.e. for EADS assembly lines). - Spare Parts for civil and military aircraft. - Specialized Packaging and Preservation (packaging and preservation in accordance with customer’s requirements or industrial/military specifications – MIL, TL, VG - at our state-of-the-art packaging facility or at customer’s plant. - Manufacture and Sale of plastic blast media Dry Strip. Flugzeug-Union Süd GmbH (FUS) is located in Ottobrunn-Riemerling near Munich in close proximity to EADS GmbH. www.fus-online.de
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construction

Efficiency control cockpit > Booth U39

Plug-and-play RTM tool

> Booth M57

FUS joins VAP Network

> Booth T46

The development of repair procedures for composite structures is becoming a major industrial issue. Classical machining processes using hand-held tools offer high adaptability but low reproducibility and accuracy. Abrasive water jet (AWJ) cutting is a young technology widely used for cutting most materials including composites. Jedo Technologies and its R&D department have demonstrated that AWJ technology may be used in milling applications, especially for composite and repair machining. AWJ systems can machine structures with a constant depth (step lap), with low impact on the structure geometry and low residual stress. Moreover, it is possible to machine with variable depths to achieve scarf shapes. A specific procedure automatically adapts machining to the variability and defaults of the material. Jedo Technologies is now equipped with a 5-axis water jet machine. www.jedotechnologies.fr

Composite repair and machining using abrasive waterjet

> Booth K71

64 jec composites magazine / No71 March 2012
http://www.nidaplast.com http://www.lectra.com http://www.compose-tools.com http://www.fill.co.at http://www.fus-online.de http://www.jedotechnologies.fr
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