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COMPANIES COMPANIES Report JEC Show Paris 2008 report The JEC Show Paris was so rich in innovation it was impossible to mention all new products in our issue 39. Here are others. To be continued. Programmable fibre dosing and cutting system Schmidt & Heinzmann has developed the FIDoCut (FIber Dosing and Cutting) system for cutting ductile chemical and natural fibres. With the new system, chemical and natural fibres can be sliced. The fibre cutting length can be changed by programming during the working process. The knife blades are more durable and easy to replace, and a defined spread bed can be produced. Up until now, the fibres had to be primed before cutting to achieve good cutting results. mm) and mass flows can be programmed with the speciallydeveloped software. A working width from 4 spindles (400mm) up to 8 and 12 spindles can be used thanks to the modular construction and drive concept. www.schmidt-heinzmann.de Cutting equipment and pattern design software Equipment reliability is such a high priority that Autometrix has eliminated from its products as many components as possible that need continual adjustment, wear out fast, or completely fail. There are no belts to adjust or cause extra wear. No tensioning is necessary, and no side load is placed on motors to degrade their life. According to the company, its systems are simple enough for a skilled maintenance worker to easily keep them running. Over 380 systems designed for single and low-ply cutting applications are already operating all over the world. Autometrix software is a full 2D CAD program with design, modifying, nesting, and machine control functionalities. Its photo digitizing equipment saves hours of tedious digitizing work. www.autometrix.net resin trap and a rugged control manifold with a heavy-duty singlephase vacuum pump. The machine is shown here infusing the composite airframe of Falcomposite’s “Furio” light plane. First introduced to the American composite industry in late 2006, the machine has been proven in a variety of composite manufacturing applications ranging in size from motorcycle and light aircraft parts through to the manufacture of large resin-infused boat hulls and wind turbine blades. www.vacmobiles.com The new FiDoCut cutting system now enables special product orientations. The system’s precise and reliable construction guarantees the constant quality of the cutting results. Fibre cutting is performed by resharpenable blades based on the principle of scissors. The endless strings are drawn by a feed unit and fed into a downstream cutting system. The fibre strings are drawn through the cutting spindles by an air conveying system. The necessary air stream is generated by an adjustable side channel compressor. The cutting spindles are driven by a variable-speed drive. A wide range of fibre lengths (2 to 200 Automatic fabric inspection Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. (EVS) offers a family of automatic fabric inspection systems, named IQ-TEX, based on unique “image understanding” algorithms that actually imitate the human visual mechanism. IQ-TEX detects diverse spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and coating defects on any unicolour fabric. The EVS solution for the inspection of composite material is based on a modular concept integrated into the IQ-TEX Lite™ system and functions as a platform for diverse applications such as film, nonwoven, glass, tyre Vacuum system An enhanced vacuum system designed specifically for composite applications such as resin infusion, prepregs and vacuum bagging was introduced to the European market at the JEC Show Paris 2008. The Vacmobile 20/2 machine is a complete “out-of-the-box” vacuum system which integrates a JEC Composites Magazine / No41 June 2008

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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #41 - June 2008

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