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Technology Update
44 May/June 2007
InfoSight Corporation, USA, is a leading
worldwide supplier of tube and pipe identi-
fication equipment. The company offers
several different identification technologies
to the tube and pipe industry.
The company offers a range of weigh,
measure and stencil (WMS) equipment.
WMS equipment is custom-designed for the
customer’s application in order to perform a
range of operations on tubes. These include
weight measurement, length measurement,
colour banding, stencil marking, and stamp
marking.
WMS systems can capture length and
weight automatically and mark tubes with
the required in-plant or customer message
data including weight and length. Length
range tolerance and weight tolerance
checking are automatically performed,
Marking of text and special binary bar codes
on the tube OD is applied by I-Dent® dot
matrix stencil technology for automatic in-
plant tracking of tubes. InfoSight also offers
the Opticode® bar code reader to read these
bar codes from long distances.
Both OD and ID laser marking of text,
logos and industry-standard bar codes is
applied to tube OD or ID using Infomark®
technology – using a CO 2 laser to laser-
mark a white paint pattern applied to the
tube surface.
InfoSight Corporation – USA
Fax: +1 740 642 3777
Email:
Website:
Machine parts available in
quantities from one to a million
Eagle Stainless Tube & Fabrication, USA,
is a supplier of off-the-shelf stainless steel
products and fabricated stainless steel
components. The company offers an entire
range of miniature to large precision-
machined parts, with diameters from 0.04"
to 1.50".
Eagle can provide intricate geometrics
such as threads, slots, and external/
internal hexes, from an extensive inventory
of materials including stainless steel,
aluminium, titanium, Monel, Inconel, and
brass. Machined parts manufactured by
Eagle are suitable for a broad spectrum of
aerospace and electronics applications, as
well as for implantables, surgical tools, and
quick disconnects for the medical industry.
The company can manufacture prototype
parts using its rapid prototyping system,
in quantities as small as one piece. The
company also employs a bar-coding system
that reports actual run time on customers’
parts.
Eagle Stainless Tube & Fabrication Inc
– USA
Fax: +1 508 520 1954
Email:
Website:
Latest cutting systems for auto components
Reika, Germany, has delivered another four complete cutting systems for DOM tubes
to the largest tube producer in central America. The machines are to be installed in the
customer’s value-added production centres for tubular automotive components.
The lines are of the new ‘Compact’
series, with high performance outputs for
automotive suppliers, and tube-machining
cells consisting of a rotary cut-off unit and
a chamfering/facing unit. The rotary cutting
heads can either be equipped with standard
carbide inserts or with chip-less cutting
disks, reducing the tool cost per piece.
As the cutting operation is dry, the parted tubes can easily be transferred into the facing
and chamfering unit. Subsequent measuring stations for length, roundness, straightness
or customer-specific measuring applications can be integrated with SPC-capability and
evaluation. The energy consumption of the new lines is low, as no energy-intensive
washing and drying operations are necessary due to the clean and dry cutting process.
Multi-machine operation can be achieved
because of the automatic packaging
systems on the exit side of the machines.
The gantry-type packaging systems are
integrated in the machine controls and
can be easily programmed according to
the necessary box size and the required
packaging pattern.
The market for hot rolled tubes is booming,
in particular for OCTG applications, and
Reika has reported high demand for its new machines and turnkey lines for straightening,
cutting and bevelling. The company will participate in September’s International Tube
Ukraine Conference in Dnipropetrovsk, where it will present new developments in tube
finishing lines for seamless pipes.
Reika GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Fax: +49 2331 969 036 • Email: • Website:
No energy-intensive
washing and drying
operations are necessary
due to the clean and
dry cutting process
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› Reika’s ‘Compact’ series of tube-machining cells
Specialist in tube and pipe identification
› Infosight use highly advanced marking technology
to place barcodes on tube and pipe
with reject pipes automatically marked
accordingly. These systems can be supplied
in varying designs from simple in-line to
lateral transfer walking beam.
Stencil Jibs are custom-designed to perform
stencil marking on moving tubes in the
customer’s conveyor or on static tubes in the
customer’s tube station. InfoSight can supply
the standard I-Dent® marking technology
or third party ink jet or drop-on-demand
markers per customer’s preference.
In addition, the company provide Infodent®
Stamper Jibs that are custom designed
to perform dot matrix indentation stamp
marking on static tubes in the customer’s
tube station. Colourband Jibs are also
available, and designed to perform sprayed
colourband marking on tubes in the
customer’s spin roll station.