EoW March 2008

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entire sales and production process from customer enquiries through to delivery with industry-specific functions, such as: Quotations with cost-base pricing according to lot sizes and customer lengths; sales order processing; dispatch handling, drum management and metal billing; length based inventory control and purchasing; cable designer’s workbench – graphic cable design with specific functions for dimensioning of special cables; detailed production scheduling with set-up sequence optimisation for wire drawing machines, extrusion lines, stranding machines; shop floor control with full traceability of drums, production lengths and material batches; integrated CAQ-system - from the test and inspection plan through to measured value acquisition and generation of test certificates; and flexible interfacing of machine controls, weighers, metre counters. Advaris Informationssysteme GmbH – Germany Fax : +49 981 7629 Email : info@advaris.com Website : www.advaris.com AEI Compounds Ltd, in Kent, UK, has introduced two new moisture crosslinkable, zero halogen, fire retardant compounds – CT06/30:CT06/81A and CT06/91:CT06/81A. These compounds were primarily developed for building wire applications meeting such specifications as BS7211. As a consequence of the excellent range of properties they have, in many instances, been approved for insulation and sheathing applications other than building wire, such as cabling for shipboard and mass transit systems and nuclear power facilities. This new generation of compounds advances the technology beyond AEI’s already well established crosslinkable, zero halogen compounds SX538, SX559 and SX545 with notable property improvements. Resulting from extensive research to identify a beneficial blend of polyolefin resins and efficient compatible filler systems, these new compounds have the following significant aspects: readily processable; excellent mechanical properties; excellent electrical properties. At the same time they have retained the necessary resistance to flame propagation as achieved with their predecessors, meeting specification requirements. An additional very important aspect of these materials is that with judicious selection of catalysts they will crosslink in ambient conditions at insulation thicknesses of 0.5 to 0.8mm, within four to five days. AEI Compounds Ltd – UK Fax : +44 1474 564 386 AEI Compounds Ltd 11 F02

Acciai Speciali Zorzetto 12 C17

Formed in 1970, Acciai Speciali Zorzetto produces special steel and titanium – some 60% of which is exported to Europe, Asia and the American markets. Steel and titanium is in rolls and bars and have undergone special drawing, peeling grinding, heating and galvanic treatments. These products can be used for mechanical purposes but are especially sought after for the automotive industry, pneumatics, oil-hydraulics, bio-medical and the aviation industries. The company is ISO 9001:2000 registered.

Acciai Speciali Zorzetto – Italy Fax : +39 0444 490233 Email : amm@zorzetto.com Website : www.zorzetto.com

ACM AB 9 E40

KSM, the off-line measuring and data acquisition system from ACM AB, Sweden, produces accurate measuring data allowing for efficient and profitable analysing of over dimensional cost and process variations. The dominating cost in cables – material – can be reduced by using the KSMEval programme where over dimensional costs can be sub- stantiated by selectable parameters. For example, by product code, production line, operator, etc. These subjects can then be further filtered by date, time, etc. Production line economics can easily be compared and corrective actions, based upon the accurate and defined date acquired through the KSM system, can result in annual factory savings of $200,000. ACM will demonstrate both the KSM measuring/database system and the unique office analysing tool, KSMEval.

ACM AB – Sweden Fax : +46 8 893750 Email : info@acmab.com Website : www.acmab.com

Advaris 10 B22

Advaris offers a software package of the same name as a streamlined, modular-structure industry solution specifically for cable and wire manufacturers seeking an alternative to complex and expensive adaptations of a cross-industry ERP system. The Advaris basic modules of product data management (PDM), manufacturing execution system (MES) and warehouse management system (WMS) support the

Email : sales@aeicompounds.co.uk Website : www.aeicompounds.com

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