What is Patriot™?
Composites manufacturers have been experiencing the same quality control issues for years, including porosity, pre-release, gelcoat cracking and more. As pumping technology improved over the years to address things like lowering styrene emissions, the root problem behind the quality control issues was not directly addressed. That problem – imprecise metering. Seeing a growing trend with Composites manufacturers moving to more automated processes, where pumping system performance and precise metering would become critical, the M.V.P. Advanced Design Group set to work in developing the next generation of Composites Pumping System.
The new system would need to work as efficiently in the "mom and pop" shop as it would in a fully automated operation. It would need to have the ability to handle multiple flow rates and varying materials to meet the demand for efficient modularity, and would need to be constructed of rugged materials able to withstand increased production runs. And, it would need to greatly reduce the flow-rate variations to improve the precision in production.
Through extensive testing, the M.V.P. Advanced Design Group determined that most standard pumping systems available on the market today have variations in their resin flow rates as high as 25%, and the catalyst to resin variance ratios were as high as 30%.
Knowing that as more manufacturers move into automated production, pumping system performance would be even more critical to an efficient operation. With the variations seen through testing, the Advanced Design Group determined that a revolutionary new system, with a production based design, would need to be developed to meet the coming demands of increased precision.
What they designed is the Patriot™ Pumping System.
Patriot™ is a versatile pumping system that addresses many of the problems currently experienced in production control. During testing, Patriot™ turned in an amazing catalyst to resin variance of less than 1%.
With precision like that, many of the quality issues that currently face composites manufacturers can be dramatically reduced. Those issues include:
- Porosity
- Pre-Release
- Post Curing
- Gelcoat Cracking
- Alligatoring
- Inconsistent Thickness
- And more..
While there are other factors that can contribute to these quality issues, an improved performance in the meter/mix system can result in a significant reduction of these problems.
Bottom Line?
The bottom line – with dramatically increased precision and performance, and superior wear characteristics, the Patriot™ Pumping System is designed in every way to improve your bottom line.
