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KNOW-HOW Control Single part cutting and inspection system with detailed traceability In a world of quick turnaround, fast development programmes and design modifications, making and providing a detailed traceability for one-off parts can be more time- and labour-consuming than the actual making of the parts. DEAN KIRBY, SALES AND PRODUCT MANAGER LASERQC GROUP PETER RICHTER, AEROSPACE SALES AND PRODUCT MANAGER VIRTEK VISION INTERNATIONAL INC. throughput while providing 100% traceability. The automated selfcalibrating laser inspection system performs first-article inspection, statistical process control (SPC), and reverse engineering of 2D materials. It can also store the inspection file as a CAD model or PDF file, or can email the data to another site for follow-up. LaserQC Composite with user-friendly and effective software is a fast and easy way to create a template for critical dimension inspection, collect data on the critical dimensions of your parts, create inspection reports in seconds to meet both your customers’ and your own internal quality requirements, and create SPC data, including charting data in a histogram, run chart, and X bar/range plot. Virtek’s LaserQC projection/inspection system provides an excellent solution for these needs. In the cutting and inspecting of composite ply parts, it not only contributes fast turnaround, significant productivity increases and higher quality, but also records the entire process. The challenge Single-part, low-volume, and “first-off” speciality composite parts manufacturers have high non-recurring development costs. The result can be long cycle times to design plies, produce drawings and manufacture templates for single-volume or low-volume composite ply parts. On-the-fly modifications can add further cost and time, requiring a lengthy and iterative loop of updating drawings, making parts and inspecting them. There may also be significant costs and challenges in demonstrating the traceability and cut accuracy, and recording the design for future builds once a composite part has been manufactured. A “skunk-works” solution (basically, one where a small research team works on a project with few management constraints and where it is difficult to share resources across projects) may not produce sufficiently accurate documentation to reproduce the first-off parts made. Virtek’s LaserQC has a solution to address these issues: a projection and inspection system that brings fast manufacturing, verification and full traceability to your manufacturing challenges. The LaserQC system uses Virtek’s laser projector, and its fold-down table top, to provide a cutting and measuring system in a single machine. The fold-down table top can be equipped with either a cutting surface or a knife cutting brush board depending on the material to be cut. The laser draws a highly accurate laser outline on the cutting table for the operator to use as a pattern. Once the ply or material is cut on the surface, the table top is raised to expose the 2D inspection system. The inspection system uses the same laser to quickly scan the part and produce a CAD file in seconds – dramatically increasing How it works LaserQC Composite is an advanced 2D projection and measurement system. The projector is set up over a large calibrated table and used to project an accurate outline from a dxf-extension file, IGES or STEP model for drawing onto the 2D composite material to be manually cut. The line is drawn by steering a laser point of light at high speed and with critical accuracy, calculating the trajectory on the calibrated table below. The point of light moving at high speed gives an accurate, clear, red line drawing against which to cut the material in question. The material lies on a projection top surface, which can be either a plastic “cutting board” surface, or a brush table for fabric Fig.1: cutting knives (see Cutting Figure 1 with cutting board in position surface lowered). The material may be manually cut to the projected outline using a variety of methods, depending on the type of cutting surface used. Once the part has been cut, the part is removed, and the counterbalanced cutting surface is effortlessly raised (see Figures 2 & 3). JEC Composites Magazine / No37 December 2007

JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007

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CONTENTS
NEWS WORLDWIDE
- Companies
- Agenda of events
- Innovations
BUSINESS
- Trends
- Market survey: China
- Initiative
- Niche markets
- Human capital
FEATURE - BIOCOMPOSITES
- Properties
- Materials
- Applications
USERS’ PLATFORM
- Composites in the world
- Applications
- Successful partners
- Impact analysis
KNOW-HOW
- Thermoplastic fabric
- Control
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Initiative
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Niche markets
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Human capital
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Properties
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Composites in the world
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Applications
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Successful partners
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - KNOW-HOW
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Thermoplastic fabric
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #37 - December 2007 - - Control
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