With the advent of smaller, less expensive, and generally more effective computers, simulation models and simulation environments have become increasingly popular tools for solving engineering problems. This paper describes an effort to link a genetic algorithm with WITNESS, a modeling program developed by AT&T and Istel, in order to optimize a model of a manufacturing process called filament w...

The constant winding tension can make the filament arranged in order. The stress distribution between the filament balance fully gives play to the enhancement of filament, and increases the intensive workload of the composite winding material. This paper conducts the mechanical analysis for the unwinding roller and tension measuring roller of the cylindrical winding machine so that gets the mec...

Filament winding is gaining increasing importance due to the widespread availability of modern automation techniques. This requires high designing efforts in order to exploit such a potentiality. For the achievement of high level of accuracy, numeric controlled industrial robots are used to carry special designed delivery eye. Moreover, the necessity to process complex shape objects leads to co...

This paper describes a research effort to improve the efficiency of a filament winding process by combining the simulation capabilities of the WITNESS modeling program with the search capabilities of a genetic algorithm. Results show that the genetic algorithm is able to reduce the cost of producing filament wound mandrels used in the defense industry.

Article history: Received 30.08.2013. Received in revised form 04.12.2013. Accepted 12.12.2013. Filament winding products are widely used due to their quality, high strength and a series of advantages in the industrial areas. The process involves winding filaments under varying amounts of tension over a male mould or mandrel. The tension control product has become the most important object in t...