WCA September 2011

Technology news

Measuring and monitoring from Zumbach

Zumbach offers a wide range of dimensional measurement and quality monitoring systems for the plastics, rubber, wire, cable, steel and metal industries. The systems described are designed to provide wire and cable manufacturers with the state- of-the-art in process control technology. Specific parameters covered by these systems include diameter, ovality and wall thickness measurement. Also new are processors designed to provide on-line measurement and data acquisition, control and display as well as quality monitoring. Zumbach offers other instruments, such as on-line profile measuring systems of continuously manu- factured profiles of any kind, X-ray measuring systems for CV lines, combined diameter and eccentricity measuring systems for comm- unication cables and more.

measuring head supplements the programme of three-axis laser measuring systems with a measuring field of 64mm (2.52"). The principle for the ODAC ® 63TRIO is the same as for the smaller model ODAC ® 33TRIO. Since commissioning the first system, three-axis measurement has been hugely successful. of out-of-round condition, regardless of the orientation of the product ovality, in combination with reliable and fast diameter measurement are all valuable features. Advantages include synchronised measurement axes on one single plane, ultra compact design, reliable detection of mean value regardless of the orientation of the product ovality, accurate computation of circum- ference and cross section, increased measurement accuracy and reliability, integrated fault detector that offers three times higher detection certainty and sensitivity than two-axis models and available interfaces including J The accurate detection

❍ ❍ The ODAC ® 63 TRIO from Zumbach

standard RS-232/ -422/-485, Profibus DP and Ethernet. for USYS,

Zumbach Electronic AG – Switzerland Fax : +41 32 356 0430 Email : sales@zumbach.ch Website : www.zumbach.com

The new ODAC ® 63TRIO system

Back by popular demand

By popular demand, IDES has just re-introduced the Histogram Search in Prospector. This feature has been available for years on CD but is now also available online. When a user runs a Property Search on any numeric property in Prospector, they will have the choice of either entering min/max values or search using the Histogram. The Histogram shows a graphical view of the plastics data for a given property. For example, if a user does a property search on Flexural Modulus, the Histogram will show the number of plastic materials that are available at each increment of Flexural Modulus values. “The beauty of the Histogram is that it can aid a user’s selection by making sure that people widen their search parameters to include the largest number of materials possible,” said Mike Kmetz, president of IDES.

IDES – USA

Fax : +1 307 745 9339 Website : www.ides.com

Email : sales@ides.com

❍ ❍ The Histogram – now available for download

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