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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2011 62
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.
The new ODAC® 63TRIO system
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.
The accurate detection 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
standard for USYS, RS-232/
-422/-485, Profibus DP and Ethernet.
Zumbach Electronic AG –
Switzerland
Fax: +41 32 356 0430
Email :
Website :
Measuring and monitoring
from Zumbach
❍ ❍ The ODAC® 63 TRIO from Zumbach
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
Email: Website:
Back by popular demand
❍ ❍ The Histogram – now available for download