Filament winding specialists, Roth Composite Machinery (hall 5, stand 5A30) has announced it will be exhibiting at the Hydrogen Technology Conference & Expo in Bremen on September 27-28, 2023.
The special machine builder will be showing its innovative automation concept for reliable fibre changing, as well as the new special winding software ‘µRoWin’.
The Hydrogen Technology in Bremen is the world's largest conference and exhibition exclusively addressing advanced technologies for the hydrogen and fuel cell industry.
Representatives of the entire hydrogen value chain come together to share ideas and inform themselves about the development of innovative solutions for low-carbon hydrogen production.
“We have decades of experience in the development and manufacture of high-performance machines for wet and towpreg winding as well as their integration into fully-automated production lines," said managing director, Dr Andreas Reimann.
The information about the new splicing unit is likely to be a particular highlight in Bremen. This innovation emerged from the company’s own development work and proves to be very powerful already in the trial phase. It is an innovative automation concept in which compressed air is used to swirl the individual fibres for all fibre strands in parallel to create a secure connection with the changeable fibres. Until now, the rovings have either been knotted or spliced by hand when changing - a process being not only time-consuming but also prone to errors. The automated process, together with the corresponding machine, can realize the fibre changing process quickly and safely.
Automation, safety and time saving are also the focus of the further spotlight at the Hydrogen Technology in Bremen: The new winding software µRoWin for generating programs for the machine movement. It offers a fluent workflow and allows the checking of all relevant input parameters at any time. This transparency and precision of the algorithms anchored in the software ensure the highest placement accuracy of the fibres – and is thus an important instrument for quality assurance.
The powerful and user-friendly special software not only optimizes the winding process, but already ensures maximum efficiency beforehand: the structure can be designed and optimized via 3D simulation. This "digital twin" can then be transferred to the machine as a control code simply by pressing a button.
“We are very much looking forward to showing our innovations in Bremen and talking to our customers and interested parties,” added Reimann. “Especially the contacts during a trade fair provide important impulses for future developments, which we - as renowned filament winding experts - actively help to shape."
