wiredinUSA November 2014

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Artofil Booth 110

Mossberg Associates Inc Booth 418

problems caused by time-consuming manual lay length measurement methods and crosstalk performance issues from lay variations during datacom cable production. LayScan enables manufacturers to simultaneously measure four pairs at the cabler and twinner to confirm the accuracy of twisted-pair cable construction during production. LayScan measures lay lengths up to 25.4mm at speeds up to 152.4m/min with 0.025mm accuracy. LayScan can be used in conjunction with the Beta LaserMike SRL Pro structural return loss measurement system, used before and/or after the extruder to identify potential causes of structural return loss problems. A Beta LaserMike product team will be available to discuss the new DCM SCS-700 cable testing system and NDC Technologies and Hitachi Cable USA will give a joint paper presentation at the conference technical session. Davis-Standard will be exhibiting its motorized payoffs and take-ups. The machines are floor traversing and collapsible, unlike Davis-Standard’s current cantilevered arm and gantry style machines. Advantages over previous designs are said to include a smaller overall footprint and enhanced operator ergonomics. A complete range of machines is available from 1,250mm to 5,000mm (48 to 195 inches) with the greatest concentration of machines within the 1,800mm to 2,500mm (70 to 98 inches) size range. Each is available with a North American standard controls platform. For international projects, machines are equipped with a Siemens AC drive, PLC and HMI with a Mitsubishi servo drive. Machines are available as stand-alone with a dancer or with an accumulator. Davis-Standard LLC Booth 227

The software uses an EM field solver to analyze high frequency skin and proximity effects in wires, eddy currents in shields, and dielectric losses in insulation. Frequency-dependent data is also incorporated by identifying variations in material properties at different frequencies. On output the software provides ASCII reports for LRCG parameters, and plots S-parameter data for RL, IL, NEXT, FEXT, ELFEXT, PS-NEXT and PS-FEXT.

Artofil has manufactured high performance yarns, including water blocking spun yarn and fine, filler and binder yarns, since 1951. The company offers a range of products suited to any cable design, including microduct and nano cables.

Beta LaserMike Booth 106

Mossberg Associates is an independent supplier of large cable drums, fully machined multi-wire reels, pressed metal process reels, shipping reels and ancillary equipment that includes take-apart reels, reel tilters and movers and coil and reel lifters.

NDC Technologies will be showcasing several Beta LaserMike products, including the DCM ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system and the LayScan ® length measurement system.

Pourtier and Sectic of America Booth 405 Pourtier and Setic, manufacturer of rotating machines for the non-ferrous wire and cable industry, recently re-branded its new machine division located in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, under the name of Pourtier and Setic of America. With over 20 years in the market and several major machine installations in the USA, the company’s product line includes Pourtier’s successful rigid stranders and drum twisters for producing low, medium and high-voltage cable and conductors, as well as Setic’s large and small double twist bunchers, and a complete line of machines for the production of LAN and special cable.

OptEM Engineering Booth 318

OptEM Cable Designer software can be used to design and model all types of copper cables, and is particularly suited to unshielded and shielded twisted-pair, quad, ribbon, and subsea umbilical cables, as well as flex circuits from DC to 10GHz in telecommunication and data transmission applications. OptEM Cable Designer utilizes hierarchical-design techniques, where existing design elements are building blocks (instances) in constructing higher-level designs. Built-in libraries of materials (frequency and non-frequency dependent) and object definitions are used in construction and can be easily customized.

The ES-2G LAN/data cable testing system will be on display

The latest version of LayScan is designed to solve scrap, rework, and productivity loss

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