WCA July 2011

Reels, spools and spooling

Reels, spools and spooling

Photo courtesy Karl Fuhr GmbH & Co KG

to productivity. They are no less subversive of profitability. That reels, spools, and spooling, and their integration into project management, occupy a worry-free zone in a state-of-the-art wire mill is due largely to the quality of the companies active in that area, including those reviewed here. Where there is no tolerance for slackness (ie remissness, infidelity to appointed service), slack will be of negligible concern.

A common denominator of these topics (as with those treated on p48 — “Payoffs, Takeups, Winding”) is slack: a property with no physical presence but a formidable capacity for mischief when it occurs in the wire making process. The jams that result from inefficient tensioning – from poor coordination of diameter and weight changes with the acceleration and deceleration of reel, spool, or bundle – will bring a high-speed line to a halt as readily as any of the more obvious threats

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Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2011