Extrusion International 1-2018

28 Extrusion International 1/2018 INSPECTION TECHNOLOGY 100% In-Line Inspection of Composite Materials for the highest process reliability and resource efficiency Composite materials are playing an increasingly important role in numerous industries, and they are often used in safety-relevant areas such as aviation, the automotive industry, and in the construction of wind power plants. Thus the inspection of fiber-reinforced plastics is of crucial importance for manufacturers. State-of-the-art tools now enable a completely new level of quality assurance: In addition to the monitoring of raw materials (fabrics, roving) and epoxy resin coatings (pre-pregs), they ensure that the individual rovings/tapes are measured and inspected, while also determining the height of topological material defects in three dimensions. This significantly increases the range of applications and improves production monitoring considerably For the highest production efficiency: Reliable detection of loosely attached fibers (fuzz balls) in fiber-reinforced plastics and additional 3D height measurement in topological expression