wiredinUSA April 2013

Redux™ wave spring, torsion spring and, more recently, extension spring designs,” said Chris Petts, MD of Lee Spring. “Metric is increasingly becoming an industry standard as a result of globalization.” Lee Spring manufactures and supplies springs and fasteners to a wide range of industry sectors, in particular for numerous medical applications, where reliability and precision are essential. The springs are used in pharmaceutical delivery systems such as syringes, intravenous valve controls and automated drug control, as well as medical and surgical devices such as staple guns, catheter valves and anesthetic infusion, and all conform to the stringent quality requirement of medical device and pharmaceutical customers. At the other end of the fastener spectrum, Lee Spring recently supplied extension springs for the restoration of a Sopwith Dolphin First World War aircraft. UK's Spectrum Technologies PLC has introduced Nova MaX, a precision measure and cut system for large gauge wire and cable for aerospace, defense and other industries as part of the production process for complex electrical wire harnesses. MaX will accurately measure and cut to length wire and cable with outside diameters up to 15mm. Cut and measured

A heat shrink sleeve printer and a label printer can be integrated with MaX to create a complete solution for preparing and identifying cut-to-length wire and cables that cannot be processed on a laser or other wire marking system. Labels and sleeves can be generated in parallel as the wire is cut to length. Wires may be de-reeled from a single de-reeler or wire tree, fed through MaX, and collected in a motorized coiling pan after processing. The pneumatic shear ensures clean cutting of large gauge cables and a controlled acceleration and wire pull mechanism maintains high length accuracy. The control system is based on Spectrum’s proprietary CAPRIS Nova software and is very simple to use. The ability to download job files for processing on MaX is a key feature, enabling operators to transfer job files rapidly and easily and to select and process jobs without the need to enter details of each wire.

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