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Niehoff manufactures machines which cover nearly all
processes of wire and cable production and handling.
The Niehoff Package System (NPS) is a highly efficient, safe and
economic handling system for automotive wires. It consists of
the specially developed SV type spoolers and collapsible ABS
plastic multi-way spools.
At the latest Niehoff in-house exhibition at the headquarters
in Schwabach, Germany, held immediately after the wire 2016
trade fair, the latest version of the SV 402.D type double spooler
was on display.
Niehoff engineers have achieved a 20 per cent increase in
production speed, which now is up to 1,800m/min with original
NPS spools.
One more advantage of the system is that original NPS spools
provide highest production safety and a very safe operation.
The SV spoolers are foreseen to operate in line with extrusion
lines. They spool the insulated wire with a particular conical wire
laying technology onto the spools.
Changeover from full to empty spools is carried out at full
production speed, allowing for non-stop production and
enabling the highest cable pay-off speeds into the downstream
processes.
The Niehoff standard range consists of six NPS spools in different
sizes. Empty NPS multi-way spools can be fully dismantled and
nested into each other.
Dismantled spools take up only a third of the space of
comparable conventional spools and require much less return
shipping space than traditional spools.
For applications where no regular spool exchange takes place,
the NPS 400 one-way spool is offered.
The NPS concept has resulted in a worldwide pool of more than
three million NPS multi-way spools, all compatible with each
other.
No matter which spools are returned, their components always
fit together. To protect the NPS spools from foreign spools which
are not compatible with the NPS and are a safety risk, Niehoff has
protected the system for a long time.
One of the measures is an RFID transponder system with which
all new original NPS multi-way spools are equipped. By this
transponder NPS users can identify if a spool belongs to the
system and is compatible with it or not.
The transponder also simplifies spool labelling: As the spool
identification is stored in RFID no label is needed.
The NPS is the only packaging system for automotive wires
made of copper, copper alloys and aluminium, which allows
trouble-free and tangle-free paying-off at highest speeds.
Even signal cables made of copper alloys with a cross-section of
0.13mm² can be processed without any problems.
Maschinenfabrik Niehoff & Co KG – Germany
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NPS with increased production speed
▲ ▲ The SV 402.D type double spooler from Niehoff
Responding to customer requests
Involved in the fields of tungsten carbide tools since 1870 and
machinery for decades, the French company Agir Technologies
provides solutions and advice to a variety of requests from
customers.
The investments made in the company, such as a wire cutting
EDM with two-wire spool of 0.03mm, a five-axis CNC machine
to cut the electrodes, and new CAD/CAM software, allow Agir to
widen its range of high precision and quality tools.
Agir is specialised in the production of tungsten carbide tools
for wire and cable manufacturing and other wire transformation,
including wire drawing dies (round, shaped, pressure), drawing
dies and plugs, cable extrusion tools, straightening tools,
wire-guides, tools for welding rods and plated wires.
The company is able, thanks to its range of software, to calculate
any drawing station for round wire just like for any shape wire.
Agir Technologies – France
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