Integrated Composite and Metal Manufacturing Capabilities
Expertise across a wide-range of processes and materials
Composite Manufacturing and Metal Machining
Design IP
- Composite laminate construction
- Material formulations
- Material placement
- Material manipulation
- Integration of dissimilar materials
- Impact of pre- and post-processing
Tooling / Capital Equipment
- Tool design
- Tool development
- Tool utilization
- Equipment selection
Process / Manufacturing
- Process parameters
- Hand lay-up techniques
- Automated tape wrapping
- Autoclave and hydroclave processing
- Specialized, automated processing
- Sequencing and manufacture of dissimilar materials
- Impact of pre- and post-processing
Ability to Provide Assemblies and Value-Added Technology
- Hybrid metal-composite curing and machining
- Missile fuselage sections
- Control fins
- 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
Hybrid Metal-Composite
Missile Fuselage Section
Fully Assembled
First Class Tray Table
Static Nozzle Assemblies
Reinhold’s Proprietary Value-Add
Reinhold develops optimized composite processes for each product
- Lay-up technique and material manipulation
- Cure time and temperature
- Material selection, orientation and placement
Successful and timely results require a skilled and experienced labor force
Tooling
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
Implication
- Composite tooling approach
- Tool / machine interface
Material Selection and Placement
Implication
- Pattern geometries, orientations and setups
- Tape wrap geometries
- Fiber / resin systems
- Bond sequencing
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
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Bonding Room
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CNC Machine Center
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Tape Wrapping
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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
Engineering and Quality
Reinhold’s R&D team is an unique competitive differentiator and advantage relative to its peers
- Dedicated R&D team composed of experienced design and materials engineers
- Specifies Reinhold state-of-the-art tooling and provides advanced designs and production approaches
- Optimize cost, 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. C / ISO9001 registered
- Fully-staffed quality engineering, inspection and testing
- Inspection
- Two CMMs
- Ferromar 3D measuring arm
- Full stable of precision measuring equipment
- 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
- Density / specific gravity
- Flow / gel / drape / tack
- Non-destructive testing
