The complex includes:
- Multiaxial KUKA robot
- Automated tool swap device, mounted on the robot
- Radial braiding machine HERZOG.
- Tuftinghead.
- Blindstitchhead.
- Spooling station for stitching heads spools
- Tool storage unit for automatic heads change
- Multi-roller pull-out device
- Spooling station for carbon and glass roving
Complex performance capabilities
- Braiding and reinforcement of single and multi-layer preforms with circular cross-section and conical profile of various diameters, thickness and length
- Braiding of hollow complex preforms with tailored parameters: area of tool coverage and angle between fibers direction and tool axis
- Manufacturing of multilayer preforms with rectangular cross-section and conical profile
- Radial braiding of carbon, glass and aramid fibers on a curvilinear tool with variable cross-section fixed in robot clamps
- Multilayer braiding due to multiple feed of the tool into braiding area
- Braiding with tailored parameters: area of tool coverage and angle between fibers direction and tool axis
- Braiding of carbon sleeves with constant cross-section
- Braiding of plane multiaxial fabric
- Transversal stitching of multilayer preforms along bicurvature surfaces
- Manufacturing of multilayer complex cylindrical preforms with further tufting
- Joining of separate parts of subpreforms (e.g. stringers and skin) into a single preform using blindstitching
- Additional transversal reinforcement of complex preforms from carbon, glass and organic materials with aramid fibers
- Single-sided transversal stitching using aramid fibers for local reinforcement of complex preforms
- Single-sided transversal stitching of complex multilayer preforms along curvilinear path to form folding lines
- Single-sided transversal stitching of complex multilayer preforms with aramid fibers to create continuous local compaction areas for direction of resin flow within transfer molding processes
- Single-sided local stitching of complex multilayer preforms to create crack stoppers
- Stitching complex preforms to compact layers and achieve given thickness
- Transversal reinforcement of foam cores of aircraft sandwich-panels using tufting technology
