AFFORDABLE SMALL FLAT TAPE LAYER FOR WIND TURBINE, AEROSPACE COMPONENTS

MAG (Erlanger, KY) offers solutions to weight savings, part reduction, and faster, simplified assembly with the CHARGER^TM Small Flat Tape Layer (SFTL) for automated composites fabrication. One of the CHARGER Series of Automated Tape Layers, the new platform provides an affordable, right-sized solution to production of long, narrow flat parts, nested multi-part laminates, drape-formed skins, and more. The CHARGER SFTL enables affordable transition from metal to composite structures and from hand lay-up to automated tape lay-up, easing market entry for new businesses. While the SFTL is a unique solution for multiple industries, it is particularly well-suited to wind turbine (blade spars, beams) and aerospace components (spars, stringers, beams, ply packs, shear ties, frames, flaps, skins).

MAG Tape Layers deliver unmatched lay-up rates, accuracies, and compaction forces — performance that is critical for error free, high-quality production. The new SFTL, with its bed-type configuration, features a simplified but versatile tape head and integral vacuum lay-up table, an essential get-started package.

Offered in two models, the SFTL produces laminates up to 1.2 m (47 in) wide on the standard width machine and up to 2.5 m (100 in) wide on the wide version platform. Either model can be configured with additional bed and vacuum table modules to increase the maximum laminate length in one-meter increments to optimize the machine size to the customer’s facility. Both models share the same low-profile design that fits easily into low-bay spaces. As an added cost-savings benefit, either model of SFTL installs on a simple flat floor that requires no special foundation.

As with all MAG automated composites lamination systems, the SFTL is equipped with the CM100 computer control. The CM100 is the only control designed specifically for automated composites production and is compatible for production-proven tape laying and fiber placement. This powerful, yet easy-to-use control features an open-architecture design powered by the latest industrial processor technology and digital servo drives to deliver fast, smooth and accurate machine motion.

In addition to the well-equipped machine and user-friendly control, the CHARGER SFTL utilizes ACES — Advanced Composites Environment Suite programming and simulation software. This PC-based tool is compatible with CATIA V4 and V5, CATIA CWB/CD3 and FiberSIM, and provides a variety of path generation types. ACES supports part programming, part simulations, productivity analysis and production animations to significantly reduce risk and ensure part productibility before shop-floor production begins.

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