Abstract

Filament winding process has increasingly developed on machine development, which brings a new era of filament winding process. This paper briefly reviews the winding machine development trends of the filament winding process, which includes a historical overview of filament winding, classification type and filament winding patterns and methods. Moreover, a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) analysis of filament winding is studied. Furthermore, industrial filament winding machines on the goal post and bed types are compared and discussed.

Keywords:Filament winding; Winding pattern; Machine development

Abbreviations:RFW: Robotic Filament Winding; VARTM: Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding; RTM: Resin Transfer Molding