A composite and engineering service team is dedicated to assist programming, operating and manufacturing process setup of your AFP Cell, and far beyond. We will support you from the reception of your AFP machine all the way to the manufacturing of your parts.
Operator training
Learn how to operate the Coriolis AFP cell, manufacture parts and perform basic preventive maintenance.
The training program for your AFP machine:
/ Overview
/ Starting and stopping the cell
/ Navigating the operator interfaces
/ Manipulating the robot
/ Importing a program
/ Creating and modifying lay-up parameters
/ Carrying out manual and automatic probings
/ Performing a dry-run
/ Managing the spools
/ Laying up in automatic mode
/ Lay-up cycles and manufacturing orders
/ Traceability
/ Resetting the numerical controller
/ Maintenance level 1
Manufacturing support
Coriolis Composites can provide programmer and operator assistance workshops: programming assistance, machine operation as well as serial production support. The expert team can also program parts on behalf of the clients directly with their original part design.
/ Assisting you to program parts for AFP manufacturing
- AFP effector configuration and sectorization
- Fiber generation
- Robot kinematic simulations
/ Assisting you to operate machine:
- Performing dry-runs
- Laying up serial parts
- Performing level 1 maintenance
Supporting you in launching the serial production of parts at your site with both machine and programming assistance for your part.
/ Performing your new serial parts programming for your AFP machine
- Composites inputs preparation
- Tooling surface preparation and offsets
- Fiber programming and tool path definition
- AFP process (robot, linear axis, positioners) movement simulation
- Program generation
- Dry-run for program validation
- Part lay-up in automatic mode
AFP process expertise
Following the purchase, the team can propose AFP support within the customer’s facilities to conduct a production line analysis and increase productivity. We help you to reach the expected production pace by analyzing and challenging the whole process from programming to tool optimization and AFP machine settings (timing, downtime analysis…).