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Wire & Cable ASIA – March/April 2014
Technologynews
MORE than 20 years ago Niehoff
developed the highly efficient, safe
and cost-effective reusable packaging
NPS system for automotive cables.
Simultaneously, it produced the fully
automatic double spoolers for
insulated conductors.
These spoolers are operated in line
with extrusion lines and feature a
reliable and safe changeover from full
to empty spools at full production
speed (non-stop production).
The NPS system guarantees the safe
and cost-effective transport of
automotive cables and highest,
tangle-free pay-off speeds in front of
fully automatic crimping machines for
all materials and conductor cross
sections.
Empty spools are dismantled and
stacked into one another ensuring
low-cost return transport to the cable
maker. In around 20 years a pool of
more than three million NPS spools,
compatible with each other, has come
into being worldwide.
No matter which spools are returned,
they always fit together – an invaluable
advantage. To protect the NPS spools
in future from foreign spools which are
not compatible with NPS, Niehoff has
protected the system for a long time.
In the last few years the Federal Court
of Justice has ruled on several
decisions that the improper insertion
into a foreign series has to be
regarded as an anti-competitive
practice. From 1st June 2014 Niehoff
will supply original NPS reusable
spools with a built-in RFID
transponder system – at no extra cost.
By means of this transponder NPS
users can identify if the spool belongs
to the system, either at their incoming
goods department or at the Niehoff
NPS double spoolers. Moreover, the
RFID transponder simplifies spool
labelling.
As the spool identification is stored in
RFID no label is needed. Niehoff has
also applied for industrial property
rights protecting this development and
expects to receive that protection
soon.
A five-year warranty for NPS spools
equipped with RFID transponders is
offered by Niehoff – also free of charge
for users. NPS is the world’s only
packaging system for automotive
cables made of copper, copper alloys
and aluminium which allows
trouble-free and tangle-free paying-off
at highest speeds.
Even signal cables made of copper
alloys with a cross-section of 0.13mm²
can be processed with NPS without
any problems. NPS users are well
prepared for the future.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH &
Co KG – Germany
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❍ The NPS double spooler SV 402 D and transportation device with empty and filled NPS multi-way spools NPS spools:
Compatibility
protected by RFID