WCA November 2020

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❍ ❍ Cimteq’s cable design software integrates with Aesa Cortaillod’s quality management tools

New prototype launched by strategic partnership

Cable industry expert Cimteq and strategic partner Aesa Cortaillod have announced the launch of a new prototype that integrates Cimteq’s CableBuilder cable design software with Aesa Cortaillod’s quality management software, CIQ. The two companies, with sixty years of cable industry knowledge, have been working together to develop the prototype. Aesa Cortaillod provides measuring systems, devices and quality- performance services from its factories in Switzerland, Germany and China. UK-based Cimteq produces cable design and manufacturing software. The companies identified that a partnership could develop benefits for customers on both sides through increased profitability, improved quality and savings in materials.

Cimteq Shehab commented, “By seamlessly inter- connecting CableBuilder and CIQ through a single and universal interface, it is possible to simplify the overall handling of large design and production data pools. The power of CableBuilder, with its bespoke management of all cable manu- facturing product and process data, provides a one-stop shop for controlled delivery and transfer of test plans to the shop floor, connecting directly with the test devices.” Director Amanda Shehab added, “In future, we also plan to integrate our CableMES with AESA’s CIQ, as it provides a highly sophisticated analysis tool. It is vital that CableMES knows the quality status of every piece of material, finished and semi-finished product on the shop floor. This can be done through CableMES’s own quality president Ali

module, or through a third-party system like CIQ. The benefits of integrating with CIQ is that we would then have direct integration to AESA’s own measurements equipment too.” Aesa Cortaillod’s CEO, Vincent Arbet- Engels, PhD, said, “The CIQ quality management system supports traceability features as well as extended quality improvement and data management capabilities. In very real terms, it opens a window on to the shop floor by tracking process and test data, not to mention production history. Its integration with CableBuilder will have significant benefits for our clients; not least that automatically pulling data from CableBuilder will mean a lot less data to set up inside CIQ.” Cimteq Ltd www.cimteq.com

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