Automated Pick and Place of Prepreg Fabric Composite Material

Features

  • Cuts parallelogram sheets from composite tape
  • Allows fiber angles from 0 to 29 degrees
  • Places and heat tacks sheets automatically in
  • the downstream process
  • Online width measurement

This equipment was designed and fabricated by Accudyne Systems, Inc. to integrate with an existing processing machine.

This thermoplastic processing equipment is capable of multiple functions. Using a guillotine device it cuts parallelogram sheets from composite tape at angles from 90 to +/- 29 degrees. Cut sheets are placed and heat tacked automatically in the downstream process. On-line width sensors ensure that successive sheets do not lap or gap at the seams.