EoW January 2010

technology news

Zumbach Electronic has introduced a new profile measuring system. Profilemaster® PMM 80 is the latest model available from the Zumbach Profilemaster family, enabling measurement systems using light section principle and machine vision. The design was focused to achieve the best price-to-performance ratio for all profiles, tubes and cables made of plastic, rubber, metal, steel or other materials. In addition, the Profilemaster PMM 80, fulfils the demands of the market for a compact, industrial-proof and cost effective system to increase the accuracy of the end product. Profilemaster PMM 80 can be easily integrated into an existing production line and any PC-based network. Measuring shapes or profiles

Main technical specifications include: Measuring field: within 80mm (3.15 •

" ) cross-section

Repeatability: up to ± 0.002mm (± .00008 • " ) Measurement rate: up to 5/s (option: 20/s) • Light source: VLD (visible laser diode) red, class 3R • Cameras: CCD megapixel gigabit ethernet • Line speed: unlimited • Type of protection: IP 65 • Dimensions (w x h x d): 440 x 520 x 280mm (17.3 x 20.4 x 11 • " ) Operating system: Windows™ XP embedded • Display: high resolution 17" TFT • Network interfaces: 2 x ethernet • Communication interfaces: digital I/Os, relay outputs • Zumbach Electronic AG – Switzerland

Fax : +41 32 356 0430

Email : sales@zumbach.ch

Website : www.zumbach.com

Software partnership Smoother winding The Luxembourg facility of tyre manu- facturer Goodyear Dunlop is using AVS automatic winding width control, developed by Joachim Uhing KG GmbH & Co, to prevent the formation of bulges and dents in wires wound on the flange area of spools.

Cimteq, the supplier of the cable design software CableBuilder © , has signed a partnership agreement with SAP to enhance its software’s ability to gener- ate professional reports, manufacturing instructions and online catalogues. CableBuilder, used by wire and cable manufacturers worldwide for design, quotations, costing and datasheets, will now feature an integrated reporting engine in the form of Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports software enables CableBuilder users to design interactive reports and use them as a template to format CableBuilder data. These reports can be static or interactive, and can cover a variety of purposes from manufacturing instructions to datasheets to quotation performance analysis. The chief benefit of Crystal Reports is thought to be the familiar and convenient drag-and-drop user inter- face, similar to the majority of word processing applications. A secondary, but important, feature is the ability to generate PDF, Microsoft Office, and HTML documents from the same user defined report format, hence reducing the time and cost of reporting. Cimteq – UK Fax : +44 1978 667 005 Email : ali.shehab@cimteq.com Website : www.cimteq.com

The metal spools on which Goodyear Dunlop winds the 1mm–2mm thick steel tyre cord are used in several locations of the Colmar-Berg plant. During their service life, some of the spools change their initial geometry considerably, bent flanges being the central issue. Warped metal spools require frequent adjustment of the traversing width if such spools are to be reused. This negatively affects the cost efficiency of the production process. Uhing developed the automatic winding width control, AVS, to provide a smooth winding pattern in the reversing area of the traversing system, known to be particularly critical in the process. extremely unsusceptible to soiling, since it lacks optical sensors, and can be integrated into existing traversing systems as a complete system or in parts. Joachim Uhing KG GmbH – Germany Fax : +49 4347 90640 Email : info@uhing.com Website : www.uhing.com The Uhing AVS is

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