Product List
The latest products available to customers for the automated fiber placement (AFP) process of composite parts.
Process simulation & optimization service
- Manufacturing a composite part with AFP technology?
- Are your AFP process settings and product optimized?
- Planning to reduce expensive tests and trials?
- Want to improve the throughput time of design and process?
Your tailored composite automated fiber placement can be optimized. Our physics-based software, OTOM AFP V.1.22, helps you know the process temperatures beyond the visible point of the thermal camera. We help you resolve:
- Temperature localization
- Process deviations
- Reliability issues
- Insufficient bonding quality
- Non-homogeneous quality
- High engineering lead time
- High final cost
OTOM AFP V.1.25
OTOM — Optimizing Thermo Optical Modeling — is a physics-based CAE software for the automated fiber placement process. It accurately selects and controls hundreds of AFP process parameters to deliver a robust, tailored product, and can interact with the PLC to increase your productivity.
| Item option | Details |
|---|---|
| Basic functions | Optical-thermal steady-state analytical geometry (cylinder, domes, flat panel); laser distribution manager, laser divergence, roller deformation, placement/winding on tape/sub. Optimization: placement/winding angle, velocity, laser power & intensity, laser head size, location and orientation. Post-processing: internal OTOM AFP plots, rendering & smoothing plots, Tecplot output. |
| Advanced | Non-linear thermal properties: temperature-dependent heat capacitance, density, conductance. Transient thermal analysis: time-dependent simulation, variable laser power/velocity, variable material properties, continuous manufacturing, Tecplot & OTOM AFP animations. BRDF ray-tracing reflections: fiber-orientation reflection pattern. PLC ADS communication module: connection with TwinCAT XAE. |
| Kinematics & optics | Kinematic determination on cylinder/domes: path definitions, multiple laser modules, laser tilt/yaw variation. On CAD: path definitions, multiple laser modules, tilt/yaw, tape-rack blade. Optical analysis (cylinder/domes & CAD): geometry-dependent ray-tracing. Post-process optical: ray-tracing output, heat intensity on tape/sub [CUDA]. |
| GPU accelerator | CUDA computing boost for UOT-CAD analysis. |
| CAD-based AFP simulation | Thermal UOT analytic geometry: temperature variation on curved surfaces. Thermal UOT CAD: temperature variation on CAD models, layer-on-layer thermal placement. |
Commercial companies and research centers can request a free trial license to see how OTOM may benefit them.OTOM AFP Viewer
A dedicated post-processing tool to analyze results from the OTOMcomposite AFP software — provided free of cost to OTOM engineering-service customers.
- Load different thermal analysis outputs
- View figure data and animation at every step
- See through-thickness information
- Show/hide different layers
- Extract temporal (time-series) plots of the heated zone and specific locations
- Global and local temperatures
- Global lay-up at every step
- Different representation styles and views
- Generate animation videos and pictures
OTOM Ray-tracer
- Versatile analysis:
- High-fidelity ray tracing on opaque and transparent objects
- Add multiple objects and analyze light interactions with various surfaces
- Microscopy integration:
- Import microscopy data for enhanced surface characterization
- Incorporate surface-roughness detail for higher precision
- Precision engineering:
- Tailor interventions based on real microscopic data
- Optimize surface-engineering projects with precision