wiredinUSA November 2014

wiredInUSA - November 2014

Artofil

Booth 110

Artofil has manufactured high performance yarns,

including water blocking spun yarn and fine, filler

and binder yarns, since 1951. The company offers

a range of products suited to any cable design,

including microduct and nano cables.

Beta LaserMike

Booth 106

NDC Technologies will be showcasing several

Beta LaserMike products, including the DCM

ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system and the

LayScan

length measurement system.

The latest version of LayScan is designed to

solve scrap, rework, and productivity loss

problems caused by time-consuming manual

lay length measurement methods and crosstalk

performance issues from lay variations during

datacom cable production. LayScan enables

manufacturers to simultaneously measure four

pairs at the cabler and twinner to confirm the

accuracy of twisted-pair cable construction

during production.

LayScan measures lay lengths up to 25.4mm

at speeds up to 152.4m/min with 0.025mm

accuracy. LayScan can be used in conjunction

with the Beta LaserMike SRL Pro structural return

loss measurement system, used before and/or

after the extruder to identify potential causes of

structural return loss problems.

A Beta LaserMike product team will be available

to discuss the new DCM SCS-700 cable testing

system and NDC Technologies and Hitachi Cable

USA will give a joint paper presentation at the

conference technical session.

Davis-Standard LLC

Booth 227

Davis-Standard will be exhibiting its motorized

payoffs and take-ups. The machines are floor

traversing and collapsible, unlike Davis-Standard’s

current cantilevered arm and gantry style

machines. Advantages over previous designs

are said to include a smaller overall footprint and

enhanced operator ergonomics.

A complete range of machines is available from

1,250mm to 5,000mm (48 to 195 inches) with the

greatest concentration of machines within the

1,800mm to 2,500mm (70 to 98 inches) size range.

Each is available with a North American standard

controls platform.

For international projects, machines are

equipped with a Siemens AC drive, PLC and

HMI with a Mitsubishi servo drive. Machines are

available as stand-alone with a dancer or with

an accumulator.

Mossberg Associates Inc

Booth 418

Mossberg Associates is an independent supplier

of large cable drums, fully machined multi-wire

reels, pressed metal process reels, shipping reels

and ancillary equipment that includes take-apart

reels, reel tilters and movers and coil and reel

lifters.

OptEM Engineering

Booth 318

OptEM Cable Designer software can be used to

design and model all types of copper cables, and

is particularly suited to unshielded and shielded

twisted-pair, quad, ribbon, and subsea umbilical

cables, as well as flex circuits from DC to 10GHz

in telecommunication and data transmission

applications. OptEM Cable Designer utilizes

hierarchical-design techniques, where existing

design elements are building blocks (instances)

in constructing higher-level designs.

Built-in libraries of materials (frequency and

non-frequency dependent) and object

definitions are used in construction and can be

easily customized.

The software uses an EM field solver to analyze

high frequency skin and proximity effects in wires,

eddy currents in shields, and dielectric losses in

insulation. Frequency-dependent data is also

incorporated by identifying variations in material

properties at different frequencies. On output

the software provides ASCII reports for LRCG

parameters, and plots S-parameter data for RL, IL,

NEXT, FEXT, ELFEXT, PS-NEXT and PS-FEXT.

Pourtier and Sectic of America

Booth 405

Pourtier and Setic, manufacturer of rotating

machines for the non-ferrous wire and cable

industry, recently re-branded its new machine

division located in Greensboro, North Carolina,

USA, under the name of Pourtier and Setic of

America.

With over 20 years in the market and several major

machine installations in the USA, the company’s

product line includes Pourtier’s successful rigid

stranders and drum twisters for producing low,

medium and high-voltage cable and conductors,

as well as Setic’s large and small double twist

bunchers, and a complete line of machines for the

production of LAN and special cable.

The ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system will be on display

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