Description
Filament winding operators tend, control and maintain machines that coat filament, usually fibreglass or carbon, in resin and wind them around a rotation mould to produce pipes, containers, tubes and other hollow cylindrical products.
EssentialOptional
Theoretical Knowledge
Practical Skills
set up the controller of a machineconsult technical resourcestroubleshootcontrol temperatureprepare resin bathmonitor processing environment conditionsremove filament composite workpiece from mandrelmonitor gaugeuse personal protection equipmentcure composite workpieceoptimise production processes parameterscut filamentperform test runcontrol production flow remotelyadjust filament tensionmanage wastemeasure materialsclean equipmentreport defective manufacturing materialsinspect quality of productsmaintain equipmentsaw off filament mandrel pinskeep records of work progress