Reports

Stranders prepared to produce from pay-off bobbins with a flange diameter of 630mm and 800mm with up to 169 wires and up to 4000sqmm in copper. © Flymca

05/09/2024 – Cable manufacture / Stranding

Cable manufacture / Stranding

Focused attention towards specialized machines

Flymca continues increasing the number of projects and thus maintains the worldwide leadership in the market of rotating machines involved in the submarine ... By Jörg Dambock

The special white ink from Leibinger adheres excellently to the dark extrusion products from Prysmian. © Leibinger

01/08/2024 – Cable production

Cable production

Prysmian banks on Leibinger’s expertise in inks

Prysmian, a global market leader in energy and telecommunication cables and systems, prints extrusion products at its plant in Neustadt near Coburg, Germany, ... By Jörg Dambock

The digital twin of scrap will revolutionise the production of green steel and intelligently drive forward the circular economy. © Swiss Steel Group

17/07/2024 – Green steel production

Green steel production

Swiss Steel Group relies on precise data for sustainable steel production from scrap

Swiss Steel Group, one of the market-leading producers of steel on the electric arc furnace route, emphasises the importance of precise data in sustainable ... By Jörg Dambock

IBG offer its customers around the world innovative solutions for data evaluation and quality control. © ibg NDT Technology

27/06/2024 – ibg testing instruments now “AI ready”

ibg testing instruments now “AI ready”

New export functions for raw and processed test data

The latest developments in non-destructive testing technology, driven by modern deep learning AI methods, will establish a significant advance in quality ... By Jörg Dambock

The motorized adjustable Pintle gradually adjusts to the required spool diameter. © Kurre Systems

26/06/2024 – New developments from Kurre Systems

New developments from Kurre Systems

Changing the pintle during operation

Replacing pintles for holding and winding different spools is time-consuming. In addition to the downtime, this also increases the scrap rate. What if ... By Jörg Dambock

Through Gi’s user friendly software, each dimension is saved and recalled by part number for fast part to part changeover. © General Inspection

25/06/2024 – Quality management

Quality management

High speed inspection system selected by Swedish bolt maker

General Inspection, LLC Davisburg, MI USA recently installed a “Gi-360T” high-speed automotive bolt inspection system in Sweden. By Jörg Dambock

Fig. 1: A 3D cable modeled in the Comsol “Multiphysics” simulation software. © Comsol

24/06/2024 – Cable manufacturing / simulation

Cable manufacturing / simulation

Cable analysis using 3D modeling and simulation technology

NKT in Sweden uses numerical modeling to investigate electromagnetic fields and calculate armor losses in 3D cable designs. The modeling results were ... Brianne Christopher