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This can be done remotely, making the
speci cations directly from the database.
Automatically presented trend curves
with over dimensional cost calculations. A
programme for material cost reductions
can be reached within seconds. The
operator is also presented with a
dynamic set target area depending on
the standard variation of the walls for the
measured product in the actual extruder
line. Also an over dimensional cost
calculation is presented based upon the
true two-dimensional measured area for
1,000m or feet of the measured product.
Feedback from customers for annual
savings is typically in the $300,000 region.
KSMData is an o ce programme with
a Dataviewer module to recreate KSM
protocols including measured image.
KSMAnalyze is a tool to analyse
measuring data, display trends
and calculate over dimensional cost in
your cables.
ACM AB – Sweden
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Acuity Products
Stand: 11G64
Acuity Products will be exhibiting the
advanced UltraScreen™ Cable Quality
Monitoring System for the rst time at
wire 2012.
The ultrasonic cable quality monitor
(previously marketed and sold by
IPEC Limited under the UltraSense
brandname) has been the subject of a
two-year, highly successful technology
improvement programme by Acuity
Products.
Several important technology upgrades
have been implemented to enhance the
capabilities of the machine originally
developed in collaboration with a cable
manufacturer in the early 90s.
New electronics have been added to
improve the discrimination of energy
returns from the four main interfaces
within the cable, as well as detecting
the contaminants, protrusions and voids
(CPVs) within the insulation layer and
associated semiconductor layers.
Improved processing capabilities have
also been added, using advanced
algorithm knowhow previously de-
veloped by Acuity mainly for military
sonar projects, and incorporating recent
processor improvements made in
industry standard motherboard designs.
New image processing techniques have
also been devised and implemented.
The monitoring software automatically
creates the four-layer cable geometry
displays during the manufacturing run,
displaying highly accurate short and
long-term trends over all four layers
as well as concentricity. Detection of
features above a user de ned threshold
level raises an immediate alarm, and
presents the feature information to the
operator whilst manufacturing continues.
This allows production decisions about
cable manufacturing problems to be
made in real time.
Completely new and easy to use cable
data analysis software has been written
by Acuity as an o -line post run analysis
tool which can be used to re-analyse
such detections or to conduct a detailed
examination of features with lower
thresholds.
For the rst time, a complete electronic
record of the internal features
and geometry of the cable is now
permanently stored for every millimetre
of HV cable produced. The CDA software
automatically creates a feature summary
display for the whole cable production
run, highlighting potential problem areas
to production and QA personnel.
Acuity Products Ltd – UK
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Advaris
Stand: 10B22
The Advaris exhibit will focus on the
company’s capacity as a full-service
supplier of all functions required by cable
and wire manufacturers for successful
economic management. Visitors can
obtain information on the potential
bene ts of using highly developed ERP
industry solutions in advisory discussions
and live presentations. Primarily small
and medium-sized companies, but
also large enterprises with several
international production locations,
can pro t from a fully integrated
length-based system design and secure
sustainable competitive advantages from
Advaris’ complete package in its modular
concept.
Besides many new software functions
for cable design, manufacturing, quality
control and warehouse management,
Advaris will, for the rst time, be
presenting a solution for integrated
maintenance management. The aim of
the new module is to maximise technical
plant availability in cable manufacturing,
which will lead to signi cant competitive
advantages.
The proactive maintenance of machinery
will be automatically included in
production planning, with maintenance
intervals determined by time or
condition. Failures in production plants
can be automatically identi ed, classi ed
and, when required, the maintenance
personnel noti ed by a system warning
(alarm) or by text messaging. All
information required for the repair,
such as the availability of spare parts,
technical manuals and the complete
maintenance history of the plant will be
available directly at the machine terminal
at the press of a key. The result will be the
minimising of machine downtimes and
repair times (MTBF/MTTR).
The impact of a machine fault on the
ability to meet deadlines for production
orders is indicated immediately in the
nite planning. By using new in-memory
technologies, the Manufacturing
Execution System (MES) from Advaris can
update the production plan in just a few
seconds.
The new technology also enables
event-driven real-time optimisation
of planning for individual lengths and
drums in the production department.
▼ Cable quality monitoring from Acuity Products
▲ Real-time optimisation of individual lengths
for speci c machines and drum capacities for
minimising machine set-up times and avoiding
waste lengths