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Innovation and vision
For over 15 years iiM AG measurement
and engineering has provided customers
with complete solutions for measurement
engineering and industrial machine
vision, and now there is VisioCablePro®
which produces innovative devices
for geometrical cable measurement
engineering (EN 60811).
One of these products is the
cable-measuring device VCPL – a
telecentric laser system for offline
measurements on diameters of various
cable types, sizes and even stranded
cables and wires. Due to the mechanics of
the device, up to 18mm thick samples can
be measured lengthwise and radially.
The VCPLab – one of the most popular
measuring devices of the VisioCablePro®
series – and measuring software FMC3
were especially designed for measuring
geometrical characteristics on cable
isolations and sheaths.
After the device records a high-resolution
image of the sample up to 50mm, the
software automatically measures the
most important features such as inner
diameter, outer diameter, concentricity
and the maximum, minimum and average
wall thicknesses. Also cable samples with
several layers and various shapes (with
carrier, flat cables, ASI cables) as well as
wires (wire surface, wire faults, dents) can
easily be measured.
Present databases can simply be
connected simply, and iiM also offers
CAQ software, ProCable, as well as many
devices for sample preparation, eg the
Hot Set Test, the sample cutting devices
ORC65 and ORC Micro, the Splitting
Cutter, the Cold Impact Test, etc.
iiM AG Measurement & Engineering –
Germany
Website:
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