EoW July 2011

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Award-winning machines

U Gear Automatic Machinery’s UG-800 ultra precise fibre optics automatic coiling machine has already landed two awards – the 2010 17 th Taiwan National Innovation Award and the 2010 Industrial Innovation Achievement Award.

The key advancements for this machine include:

Upgrading traditional industries into high-tech industries; the product was catered to traditional wire and cable industry initially and an upgrade to the fibre optics industry is proposed; upgrading the original manual operation into automatic control system with neat and tidy arrangement of fibre optics, without damaging them. Three patents have already been awarded: • The improvement of Coiling Machine (Patent No. M343671) • The Fibre Optics Removal Device, applied on the Coiling Machine (Patent No. M343672) • The Tension Control Device, applied on the Coiling Machine (Patent No. M343897) U Gear Automatic Machinery Co Ltd – Taiwan Fax : +886 222 405 083

Email : ugear999@gmail.com Website : www.a1a1a.com

▲ ▲ The UG-800 ultra precise fibre optics automatic coiling machine

Sitel produces infrared thermometers for the production of nerved steel reinforcement bars, cement annealed during lamination (Thermex or Tempcore processes). A unique feature of these thermometers is the use of a linear array as sensor (16 elements). This array measures a thermal profile composed of 16 targets (1.6mm as standard) with a total length of 25mm (other dimensions on request). The instruments are installed in the input/output zones of the tunnel in a way that the material to be measured passes inside the thermal profile line, which is vertically orientated and defined by two laser pointers. In this way, oscillations of the material do not influence the measurement, because the output of the thermometer always gives the maximum value found in the thermal profile, composed by the 16 spots of the array. This application is also extended to the input of the cooling plate to measure the self-reannealing temperature of the material. The measurement ranges of the instruments are optimised for the different stages of the production process and are: 800-1,300°C for the input of the tunnel, 400-900°C for the output of the tunnel, and 450-950°C for the input of the plate. The thermometers are provided with an analogue output of 4 to 20mA, linear on the measurement range, useful for the regulation and recording of the treatment temperatures, and with an Ethernet or RS 485 interface for connection to multipoint acquisition systems such as PC networks. Sitel Control Srl – Italy Fax : +39 02 910 1082 Infrared thermometers

Email : sales@sitelcontrol.it Website : www.sitelcontrol.it

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