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Wire & Cable ASIA – January/February 2016
Technologynews
For almost 20 years, cable and wire
harness manufacturers have been
working with the Niehoff Packaging
System NPS.
It has been in continuous development
since its beginnings and has proven to
be a highly efficient, safe and
economic handling system for primary
automotive cables as well as bunched
wires, strands, conductors and cables.
The NPS comprises special spoolers
and collapsible multi-way spools made
of ABS plastic. The spoolers are
designed to operate in line with
extrusion lines.
Changeover from full to empty spools
is carried out at full production speed
allowing non-stop operation.
The spools made in different sizes offer
a secure, stable and tangle-free
package both when full or partially
empty and enable highest cable
pay-off speeds into downstream
processes.
When empty, spools can be fully
dismantled and nested into each other
and returned to the cable manufacturer
where they can be easily and quickly
re-assembled, reloaded and then
re-used.
To protect the NPS spools from foreign
spools which are not compatible with
NPS, new original NPS multi-way
spools are equipped with an RFID
transponder.
In this way NPS users can identify
if a spool belongs to the system and
is compatible with it – or not.
In this case considerable disturbances
would be the consequence.
The RFID transponder also simplifies
spool labelling. As the spool identi-
fication is stored in RFID, no label is
needed.
The NPS packaging system allows
trouble-free and tangle-free paying-off
of automotive cables made of copper,
copper alloys and aluminium at the
highest speeds.
Even signal cables made of copper
alloys with a cross-section of 0.13mm²
can be processed without any
problems.
More than 420 NPS spooler units are
now in use all over the world with more
than three million NPS spools in
operation.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff GmbH
& Co KG – Germany
Website:
Efficient, safe and
economic cable handling
❍ SV 400 D type double spooler for insulated wires with filled and empty spools (Niehoff Package System)
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