• MAG Industrial Automation Systems

Tape Layer for Cost Efficient Composites Solutions

Tape Layer For Cost-Efficient Composites Solutions manufactured by MAG Industrial Automation Systems, MAG?s Cincinnati facilities offer solutions to weight savings, part reduction, and faster, simplified assembly. A new Small Flat Tape Layer (SFTL) for automated composites fabrication is the newest member 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 industry?s, it is particularly well-suited to aircraft/aerospace components such as spars, stringers, beams, ply packs, shear ties, frames, flaps, skins. The SFTL is designed and built using proven modules and technologies from larger Charger tape layers, the aerospace industry?s most widely used tape layers. 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 optimise 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.