Seamlessly integrate innovative functions into your product or component.

✓ As functional and sensor threads, optical fibers, LEDs, thin single wires or glass fibers

✓ with a customized layout for your application

✓ on material-homogeneous carrier material for your further processing.

Tailored fiber placement with functional integration
Textile sensors and integrated functions for your fiber preforms and sensor mats

Do you want to collect and use real-time data with your product or component to improve the health, performance, safety, comfort and efficiency of your applications?

Textile sensors can be seamlessly integrated into fiber preforms and sensor mats.

At TFP, we work with you to develop a custom-fit sensor mat in terms of shape, size and sensor layout, as well as the type of data transmission. We embroider the sensors and conductor tracks onto a carrier material that you can process easily and that best meets the requirements of your application.

Capture environmental data, monitor processes or improve the user experience to ensure the performance, efficiency and safety of the products and processes in which your components are used.

Textile sensors and functional threads complement your product perfectly because they:

Are laid in one work step with the reinforcing fibers
Equip your product or component with a necessary or additional function
Are freely definable in terms of size (up to 2700mm x 8,000mm) and layout
Are very robust, kink-resistant and vibration-resistant
Integrate seamlessly and homogeneously into your product or component
Are highly conductive, temperature-resistant and maintenance-free
Can be produced efficiently and cost-effectively in small and large series

We process the finest strands down to 0.04 mm, coated threads and other sensitive materials that are difficult or impossible to process using conventional production methods. When integrated into smart textiles, our wash-resistant textile sensor mats offer a high level of comfort and impress with their textile feel.

No matter what challenge you are currently facing with your product or component, let us work together to find a way to integrate innovative functions.

Integrate functions with sensor elements and functional threads or illuminated surfaces

Together with you, we develop a sensor layout for fiber composite materials that meets all the requirements of your specific application and ensures that the sensors monitor all critical areas in the fiber composite where damage can occur.

The sensors integrated into the fiber composite mats detect changes in certain parameters such as pressure, tension, temperature, humidity or other relevant physical or chemical variables that could indicate possible damage to the material.

Detect potential damage to fiber composite structures at an early stage before it causes serious problems. Reduce maintenance costs and increase the safety of your customers at the same time.

Integrate these and other functions with embroidered functional threads:

Detection of damage (damage sensing, tear wire mesh)
Detection of load conditions (e.g. deflection of elements)
Transmission of information (data transmission) and
Construction of sensor arrays using flexible conductor tracks
Integration of light & light surfaces.

Benefit from the integration of functional threads or textile sensors in your fiber preforms

Economical

Cost-efficient production of complex preforms

Complex structures

Complex patterns, layers or arrangements of fibers in preforms for precise reinforcement

Lightweight & stable

Lightweight fibers and carrier materials, but high rigidity due to optimal fiber orientation

Hybrid

Individual combination of lightweight fibers (carbon, glass fiber, aramid, basalt, ...) and metals

Multifunctional

Seamless integration of heating wires or sensor threads in fiber preforms

Reproducible

Production with high repeat accuracy in small and large series

Minimize the number of individual components and save work steps

We manufacture complex preforms and sensor mats with customized functional integration to suit your industrial application. Integrate our finished semi-finished products into your production in just one work step. Save working time for the placement of many components and reduce sources of error in the production process of your components or products. Replace many work steps with a preform with functional integration or sensor mat.

Textile sensors and sensor mats for your industrial application

We embroider various sensors, e.g. pressure and strain sensors, onto a textile carrier material. This results in material-homogeneous fiber preforms with functional integration or semi-finished products for your sensor mats, which you can embed seamlessly into your product.

Detect damage at an early stage

Sensor mats: Damage Sensing

Detect potential damage to fiber composite structures at an early stage before it causes serious problems. Reduce maintenance costs and increase the safety of your customers at the same time.

Capture data in real time

Sensor arrays with conductor tracks

Sensor arrays with conductor tracks offer precise monitoring and data transmission in various applications. These arrays consist of an arrangement of sensors that are placed on fiber composites with integrated conductor tracks, for example. The data recorded in real time is output by several sensors simultaneously.

We integrate strands or wires for data acquisition using sensors directly into your fiber preforms.

Collect data from multiple sensors simultaneously and obtain comprehensive information to make good data-based decisions.

Transmit information

Highly flexible textile sensors

Our highly flexible sensors can be integrated on a variety of carrier materials to create intelligent textiles. The textile sensors can be used for pressure measurement, as RFID identification and as temperature-resistant NFC antennas, among other things.

The data recorded by the sensors is transmitted in real time, e.g. via:

Cables
NFC
RFID or UHF RFID

The type of data transmission depends on your desired application.

Functional and sensor threads complement components and products in these and other applications

Automotive & Motorsport

✓ Underbody
✓ Rims
✓ Rear wing
✓ Reinforcement structures for car bodies
✓ Components for your product

Aviation

✓ Window frames for airplanes
✓ Landing flaps
✓ Lifter
✓ Ribs in wings
✓ Components for your product

Sport & Leisure

✓ Sports equipment
✓ Inlays for snowboards
✓ Components for bicycles
✓ Protective equipment and helmets
✓ Components for your product

Medicine

✓ Orthoses
✓ Prostheses
✓ Components for X-ray systems or operating tables
✓ Components for your product

Innovative functions, sensor surfaces and illuminated surfaces from the manufacturer

Do you want to add necessary or additional functions to your fiber composite component?
Are you looking for a manufacturer that seamlessly integrates functional threads for damage sensing, measurement data acquisition, data transmission and more into your component as a sensor mat or fiber preform?

Get in touch with us! We look forward to your idea or challenge!

How your sensor mats are made

Joint development of a layout for function integration in your product
Selection of suitable fibers, fiber combinations and carrier material
Creation of CAD data on the PC
Production of a sample
Test the sample preforms in your further processing
Optimization or release for production
Series production of your semi-finished products in small or large batches by TFP Technology

Textile sensors can do even more

They integrate seamlessly into fiber prefoms

Integrate necessary or additional functions such as damage sensing, measurement data acquisition, data transmission or light seamlessly and homogeneously into your fiber preforms for precise reinforcement of your fiber composite component or plastic product!

They are also heating elements

Integrate a heating function seamlessly and homogeneously into your fiber composite component or plastic product!

Find out more about textile preforms

Sensormatte für in industriellen Anwendungen vom Hersteller TFP

Sensor mat for doorbell mats, alarm step mats and contact mats

✓ Are you a manufacturer of innovative alarm mats or contact mats with sensors?

✓ Are you integrating sensors into your products that improve the safety or health of your customers?

✓ Are you looking for a manufacturer who can develop and cost-effectively produce customized sensor mats for various applications?

We develop and produce sensor mats as semi-finished products that you can use in your products for industrial and commercial applications.

Sensor mats for beds and examination tables

✓ Are you a manufacturer of innovative beds and tables e.g. for medical applications or in the healthcare sector?

✓ Are you integrating sensors into your products to improve the comfort and health of your customers?