THICKNESS MEASUREMENT
FibreEYE allows for intelligent fibre density analysis throughout the lay-up process.
FibreEYE
State of the art in-process composite inspection system
The ‘FibreEYE’ Composite Inspection System is a state of the art system designed for in-process verification of the composite fibre deposition process.
It uses advanced optical scanning to verify the deposition integrity of carbon fibre or fibreglass tows or fabrics into a mould tool. In an Advanced Fibre Placement (AFP) scenario the system is mounted alongside or in line with the deposition head and continuously monitors for features such as gaps, overlaps, twists and bridging. In a fabric draping situation the system is mounted on the fabric gripper or on a secondary robot and can be used to verify fibre volume fraction and edge location.
Logged defects are stored in a manufacturing database along with their location and defining characteristics.
Automate your composite inspection process to dramatically improve your bottom line.
Key capabilities
Technical specification
The system is designed to detect the following surface anomalies:
Adjacent scans are analysed and features spanning more than one scan are concatenated into a single anomaly.
Profile capture at 800FPS. Typical application speeds:
| Path speed (mm/s) | Resolution in direction of travel (mm) | Scan resolution (?m) | Height resolution (?m) |
| 1000 | 1.25 | 55 | 27 |
| 500 | 0.63 | 55 | 27 |
| 250 | 0.32 | 55 | 27 |
| 100 | 0.13 | 55 | 27 |
