SOURCES SOUGHT
36 -- Sources Sought for one (1) Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Machine
- Notice Date
- 11/1/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 333249
— Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, ACC - APG (W911QX) Adelphi, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Building 601, Adelphi, Maryland, 20783-1197, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20783-1197
- Solicitation Number
- W911QX19Q0011
- Archive Date
- 11/23/2018
- Point of Contact
- Walker T. Hare, Phone: 3013941088
- E-Mail Address
-
walker.t.hare.civ@mail.mil
(walker.t.hare.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) 0001: The Contractor shall deliver one (1) highly accurate, robot based Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine capable of processing commercially available fibers/tapes for flat, cylindrical and contoured parts. The complete machine shall be fabricated, tested, and verified to be compliant with the below specifications at the vendor's facility prior to being shipped to, installed, and retested at the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Aberdeen, Maryland. The machine shall fulfill the following minimum specifications: •· Shall fit into and have full functionality within an existing 20 foot ('), x 30' x 16', (Width x Length x Height) room, such that the arm mechanism shall not impact the room ceiling or surrounding walls during operation. The Contractor shall ensure the individual system pre-assembled components are capable of fitting into room thru 6'x 8' double wide doors. •· Shall include an operator station with all the necessary hardware to interface with and control the AFP machine, placed outside of clean room to allow personnel to operate equipment looking thru window and/or monitor from a live camera feed. The operating station shall include a computer that is capable of running all necessary control and simulation software and connections to the AFP machine controllers is included in the operator station. •· Shall include a rotator (rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation), with software capable of controlling the rotation rate up to at least five (5) rotations per minute (rpm), for processing complex structures such as cylindrical, box beams, and parts with concave and convex curvatures, and can handle a weight of up to 2500 pounds for processing on a mandrel of three (3) foot diameter with a minimum working length of 10 feet. •· Shall have three (3) interchangeable processing heads: •o one (1) for a single thermoplastic (TP) tow •o one (1) for a four (4)-tow minimum thermoset (TS) processing head capable of processing 1/8 inch ("), ¼" and ½" wide slit tape material with minimal additional hardware required. •o one (1) Laser Heating Head for processing both thermoplastic and thermoset materials with adequate compaction to ensure full consolidation of part. The material temperature shall drop by 50% within a half inch (0.5") of the laser area boundary. •· Sh all inc o r p o r a te a d e mo n s trat e d qu ick c h a ng e m e ch an ism that is ca p a b l e o f p l a c i n g t h e fi b er p la c e m ent h e a d i n t o a w o rk s tan d, a n d t h en p i cking up a n o t h er head w i th an ide n tical i n t e rf a ce, w it h minimal h u m an inte r v e n ti o n (single person effort). •· Sh a ll allow for the dis c o nn e c t a n d r e c o nn e ct of all p o w er, d ata, a n d p n eu m atic li n es r eq u ired t o o p erate th e fi b er p lac e m ent head, with minimal human intervention (single person effort). •· Shall include one (1) commercially available industrial robot AFP machine with a minimum of six (6) degrees of freedom (DOF) at tool spot or motion platform with rotating part and shall have a minimum work envelope including 18" radius around the length of the rotator (rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation) and the volume defined by the table surface and 60" above the surface. •· Shall have a tape laying accuracy of ± 0.05" at 10" per second and which will include a controllable compaction force from 0 to 300 pounds, ± 10 pounds. •· Shall monitor and record material temperature and roller compaction force •· Shall record the locations of defects (splices, wrinkles, misplaced tows, foreign objects). •· Shall be equipped with quantity one (1) tension creel rack and one (1) unwind system that will continuously apply tension, and shall be controllable within a minimum range of one-half (0.5) to two (2.0) pounds, during laydown and for removal and collection of backing material. •· Shall include a closed loop control and monitoring of material temperature •· Sh all pro v i d e cl o se d -l o o p p o sit i o n f e ed b ack a t all j o i n t s (i.e., d eg r e e s - o f-fr e ed o m ) in an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (A S CII) f o r m at to d o c u m ent t h e actual fi b er p lac e m ent is c o n sis te n t with the " as- p r o g r a m m e d " p o s i ti o n within t h e s y st e m accu r acy a n d precis i o n r e q u ire m e n ts. •· Shall be capable of operating off of, and be compatible with, a 480 Volts/Alternating Current (VAC), 60 amps, 3 Phase, 60-Hz electrical connection and standard shop air supply. •· Shall provide a paddle tool, 24" x 36", designed to mount onto AFP rotator for use in making flat panels and for use with initial training of equipment. •· Shall provide a metallic based table with a minimum dimensions of four (4') x eight (8') capable of handling machine compaction forces for processing flat panels without deflecting more than one-tenth (0.10") with mounting holes and positive indexing features to accurately hold parts and/or tooling during layup process. •· Shall provide AFP user manuals (both hard and electronic copies) in English for all equipment, including use of each interchangeable processing heads head CLIN 0002: The Contractor shall provide one (1) software for the AFP that meets the following minimum specifications: •· Shall provide software that is compatible with Windows 10 Operating System for working offline with the capability to import the following part file types: STEP, IGES, STL, NASTRAN, SLDPRT. •· Shall provide updates to the software, at no additional charge, compatible with future updated versions of the Operating System. •· Shall include a minimum of five (5) perpetual licenses •· Shall be capable of complex part design (including but not limited to concave and convex curvatures), automatic AFP machine path generation, manual machine programming, and layer by layer manufacturing kinematic simulation (including but not limited to simulate head motion, material placement, and collisions). •· Shall be stand alone and not require any third party CAD systems •· Shall provide user manuals (both hard and electronic copies) in English for the software CLIN 0003: The Contractor shall provide delivery, installation, setup, and re-testing at the ARL in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21005-5066 that meets the following minimum specifications: •· Shall deliver the AFP machine to Building 4600 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5066. •· Shall integrate an interlock system with the existing clean room doors as a safety barrier to shut down the AFP machine if clean room doors are opened during operation. •· Shall install an emergency stop button on AFP machine and outside the clean room at operator station. •· Shall ensure all air, hydraulic, power, data lines, and cable trays required internally and between AFP machine components necessary to operate the AFP machine in a manner that meets all requirements are included. CLIN 0004: The Contractor shall provide a minimum of 40 hours on-site training at ARL, Aberdeen, Maryland for up to ten (10) ARL employees/contractors on machine operation, provided software usage, and general maintenance. CLIN 0005: The Contractor shall provide a Service Agreement including, but not limited to, the identification of software issues, software updates, machine/hardware problems, trouble-shooting and technical support via phone for a minimum of three (3) years from the date of Government acceptance of machine
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005, United States
- Zip Code: 21005
- Zip Code: 21005
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