Virtek unveils new vision technology at Composites Europe

The new Vision Positioning System (VPS) is smaller and has the ability to quickly calibrate reducing set-up times, which the company claims, will revolutionise processes in the composite and aerospace markets.

Virtek’s VPS is the latest advancement in the Iris product line. This vision system delivers a new ease of use to carbon fibre placement. The VPS system will help eliminate costly delays with alignment and set up during composite fibre placement.

“With the new VPS series, our customers will be able to eliminate delays in drift check and also reduce maintenance costs with field replaceable components,” stated company senior product manager, Sean Francoz. “The new vision system is also portable which opens a world of possibilities in bringing laser projection to new applications.”

The new smaller, lighter system, available for a variety of assembly applications, is now portable and much easier to maintain. This next generation technology is breaking the laser barrier in the industry and extends Virtek’s already leading edge technology with a software platform that supports both targeted and targetless applications helping to accelerate the aerospace assembly process by eliminating templates, reducing human errors and safeguarding quality throughout.

VPS introduces a new feature called FlashAlign, which allows alignment to a tool anywhere within the field of view and in any orientation. The speed, robustness and intelligence of the technology enables flawless assembly and significantly improves workflows.

“With every alignment, we could save more than 1 minute with FlashAlign,” said a valued Virtek Customer. “We no longer need to re-align before inspecting every ply. There are 100s of plies in every ship set and this savings is huge for us.”

Todd Rhodes, Virtek’s vice-president and general manager added: “We have listened to our customers and significantly enhanced our current solution to address their pain points of reduced set-up time, ease of use and cost of ownership as well as faster alignment in the field. The new vision system will allow us to expand into new applications and markets helping even more companies improve workflows and create more efficiencies. With VPS, the potential is boundless.”

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