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
Cabin Interiors
Defense and Space
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 -
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
Engineering and Quality
Reinhold’s R&D team is an unique competitive differentiator and advantage relative to its peers
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Engineering Capabilities
- 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.
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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
