WCN Spring 2009

Total cable solutions Roblon has over 50 years’ experience in developing, designing and manu- facturing both industrial fibre and cable machinery. Roblon develops and manufactures high-tech industrial fibres including glass and aramid strength members, standard and water-blocking binder yarns, tapes and ripcords. It also deve- lops and manufactures serving, binding, take-up and pay-off equipment. All industrial fibre products are made in accordance with ISO 9001 quality management and ISO 14001 environmental management certification. Roblon has local representatives in over 50 countries.

Fine metal wire drawing Shanghai Lizhi Machinery Co Ltd is specialised in the research and developmentofmicro-fineandfinemetal wire drawing and annealing equipment for precious metal, non-ferrous metal, ferrous metal and stainless steel. 1. LZDM-80/21 wiredrawing machine is suitable for drawing extremely thin, precious metal wire rod. The maximum inlet diameter is 0.12mm with a minimum finished wire diameter of 0.015mm. Machine speed is 600 metres per minute. The drawing process is completely automatic, with a PLC-programmed control system. Ten pre-programmed operations can be stored.

Training with IST The Institute of Spring Technology is a centre of excellence dedicated to the spring industry. It is an ISO IEC 17025 (UKAS) approved testing laboratory for mechanical and material testing, along with a failure and prevention service. IST has secured sponsorship from IWMA to provide a specific training course package at a reduced rate of nearly 50%. To receive the discount a delegate must attend all three of IST’s training courses coveringMaterialSelection&BasicSpring Design; Manufacturing Technology and Spring Design & Failure and Prevention, which are delivered at IST’s headquarters inSheffield,UnitedKingdomandenables delegates to complete the full suite of courses in just three visits. Institute of Spring Technology – UK Fax : +44 114 252 7997 Email : ist@ist.org.uk Website : www.ist.org.uk

Roblon – Denmark Fax : +45 9620 3399 Email : info@roblon.com Website : www.roblon.com

Zumbach introduces calibrated single scan

LZDM-80/21 precious metal thin wiredrawing ▲ ▲ machine

2. LZDM-480/01 is suitable for drawing extremely thin, precious metal wire rod bus bar. The maximum inlet wire diameter is 8mm with a minimum finished wire diameter of 1.5mm. The machine speed is 50-80 metres per minute. This single-drum wiredrawing machine gradually decreases the wire diameter by threading wires through one die until the target wire diameter is reached. Settings such as drawing speed and traverse pitch can be set up for every process via a touch panel on the 10.4" colour touch screen. Shanghai Lizhi Machinery Co Ltd – China Fax : +86 21 5284 4396 Email :

ODAC® measuring heads equipped with the CSS technology, available as 1, 2 and 3 axis models ▲ ▲

minimum,maximumaverage,ovalityand fault detection. Over 300 so processed data packages can then be exported over a data port. With the new CSS technology higher measuring and data rates are combined with robustness and precision laser scanning. CSS is already available in a number of ODAC® laser heads. Zumbach Electronic AG – Switzerland Fax : +41 32 356 0430 Email : sales@zumbach.ch Website : www.zumbach.com

The new CSS technology from Zumbach invokes a number of detail improve- ments, possibly the most important being that each mirror is individually identified and its error characteristics stored in a chip. This means that each mirror is indivi- dually calibrated and that up to 1,200 measurements (i.e. all measurements) are available for further processing. A high-speed processor in themeasuring head allows filtering and analysis of the measuring values depending the process (speed, product surface, dirt, water) and to configure the further processing for

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WIRE & CABLE NEWS • Issue N° 40 – Spring 2009 • www.iwma.org