Integrated Composite and Metal Manufacturing Capabilities
Expertise manufacturing and delivering a wide-range of Customer Designed processes and materials.
Intellectual Property & Know-How
Composite Manufacturing and Metal Machining
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Tooling / Capital Equipment
Tool analysis and innovation
Tool development to meet Customer designs
Tool utilization
Equipment selection
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Process / Manufacturing
Process parameters
Hand lay-up techniques
Automated tape wrap techniques
Autoclave and hydro-clave processing
Specialized, automated processing
Sequencing and manufacture of dissimilar materials
Integration of process validation checks
Impact of pre- and post-processing
Ability to Provide Assemblies and Value-Added Technology
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- Bonded and fastened assemblies
- Complete nozzle assemblies
- Installation of attachment points
- Seatback and seat pan upper assemblies
- Mounting point installation
- Diaphragm installation
- Complete assembly of mechanical products
- Bonded and fastened assemblies
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Fully Assembled
First Class Tray Table
Static Nozzle Assemblies
Reinhold’s Value-Add
- Reinhold incorporates optimized composite manufacturing processes for each Customer design
- Successful and timely results are achieved via our skilled and experienced labor force
Tooling
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Composite tooling approach
- Tool / machine interface
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Manufacture to meet complex customer pattern orientations and setups
- Facilitation of Customer Tape wrap geometries
- Bond sequencing to meet Customer design
Curing
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Introduction of heat and pressure
- Cycle times, gradients, etc.
Tooling
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Composite tooling approach
- Tool / machine interface
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Manufacture to meet complex customer pattern orientations and setups
- Facilitation of Customer Tape wrap geometries
- Bond sequencing to meet Customer design
Curing
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Introduction of heat and pressure
- Cycle times, gradients, etc.
Key Capital Equipment – Wrapping, Lay-up, CNC, and Bonding
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CNC Mill -
Bonding Room -
CNC Machine Center -
Tape Wrapping -
Lay-up Clean Room
Key Capital Equipment – Curing
Hydroclaves
2 ea. – largest 11’ x 15’
1000 PSI / 350 deg F
Presses
60 ea – 100 ton to 2,000 ton / 6’ x 8’ x 10’
200 Deg F to 700 Deg F
Autoclaves
4ea – largest 8’ x 20’
250 PSI / 350 deg F
Ovens
12ea – largest 6’ x 6’ x 10’
500 deg F
Manufacturing Engineering and Quality
Reinhold’s team is an unique competitive differentiator and advantage relative to its peers.
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Manufacturing Engineering Capabilities
- Experienced Manufacturing Engineering Team.
- State-of-the-art tooling and advanced concept and production approaches.
- Cost optimization, performance and quality across the range of products.
- Capable of supporting software programs used by customers including:
- CATIA v5
- SolidWorks
- AutoCAD
- Pro-Engineer
- Quality
- AS9100 Rev. D / ISO9001 registered.
- Fully-staffed quality engineering, inspection and testing.
- Inspection
- Two (2) Hexagon Global PC-DMIS equipped DCC-CMM’s
- One (1) Mitutoyo Bright Apex MCOSMOS equipped DCC-CMM
- One (1) PC-DMIS equipped Romer Arm measuring arm.
- Full stable of precision measuring equipment.
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Testing Capabilities
- Mechanical testing
- Tensile / compressive / shear / flex / modulus with elevated and sub temperature testing with multiple test frames.
- Full-scale static load with multiple test frames.
- Full-scale cyclic load with multiple test frames.
- Pressure testing – hydro and air.
- Leak testing.
- Physical testing
- Acid digestion / burn off for fiber volume, void content, resin content, etc.
- Vertical burn test.
- Hardness test.
- Density / specific gravity test.
- Flow / gel / drape / tack.
- Non-destructive testing
- X-ray 160 and 320 KEV
- Mechanical testing
