Coiling or Stacking - Round or Straight?
After successfully processing wires or cables, the correct postprocessing equipment will give your processing line the edge when it comes to managing or shelving your processed material.
Coiling
Longer wires and cables are often coiled after being processed if further processing does not occur immediately as they are much easier to handle when it comes to transporting, shipping or storing.
There are two types of coilers:
- Synchronized cable coilers
- Unsynchronized cable coilers
Synchronized Coiling
Synchronized cable coilers receive all feeding information (feeding direction and speed) from the processing machine in order to guarantee 100% synchronized movements of the turntable. They are ideal for sensitive materials such as Glass Optical Fiber (GOF) because there is no tension on the cable during the coiling process.
Synchronized coiling with the CableCoiler 2000
As with active stacking, the processing machine must have the proper interface and software features to control a synchronized cable coiler. All compatible Schleuniger machines are equipped with these features.
Unsynchronized Coiling
This coiler type is a simple, cost-efficient solution to coil non-critical wires and cables in terms of tension. Normally, this machine simply needs a start, stop and eject signal that is sent from the processing machine.
Wire Stacking
Wires or cables that - after having been cut and stripped - are further integrated into whole wire harnesses are normally stacked. Stacking means that they are laid out by a wire stacking machine in a straight fashion.
There are two different stacking methods:
- Active stacking
- Passive stacking
Active Stacking
Active wire stackers are equipped with a transport belt that "pulls" the wire or cable out of the processing machine once its leading end exits the machine. This way, the wire is kept as straight as possible. In order to achieve good stacking results (mainly when processing longer lengths or very thin material), the transport speed of the transport belt is synchronized with the transport speed of the processing machine.
WireStacker 3100 with active transport belt system
The processing machine must be equipped with the proper interface and software features to control such a stacker. These required features are already included in compatible Schleuniger machines.
Passive Stacking
Passive wire stackers consist of an eject tube and a tray beneath it. The wire or cable is pushed into the stacker by the preceding processing machine.
A passive wire stacker is usually used for rather short cable lengths and materials that are not too flexible.
Passive WireStacker 500 |