Extrusion International USA 2-2019

40 Extrusion International 2/2019 MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY All Components in View – Measure Any Offshore Flexible 3-axis ODAC 550 system, measuring an Offshore cable of 500 mmOD The production of offshore Flexibles involves complex process’s requiring varying individual performances for quality control. Any deviations from the required standards can risk horrific consequences if failure occurs depending the application scenarios. In order that the risks for future product failure are eliminated during the manufacturing processes, such as wire drawing, profile rolling / extruding, stranding and sheathing, ZUMBACH provides reliable solutions for the measurement of all critical parameters Step by step all values under control From the first seconds of extrusion, ultrasonic measurement systems (UMAC ® ) with up to eight real mea- surement points, allow the eccentric- ity, independently of the material temperature to be measured. Once the eccentricity of the cable is opti- mized, it comes down to the next stage of maintaining the required av- erage wall thickness and then further to derive the minimum wall thick- ness limitation. These measurements are typically performed before and after the extruder by ODAC® and UMAC®. An additional measurement of the outside diameter at the end of the line allows the integration of the measured cold diameter value. This allows the determination of the shrinkage, which can thus be fed back within the process to realize optimum configuration. Zumbach has measurement solutions for nearly all wires, cables, tubes and profiles. Any Offshore flexible can be measured with gauges from ZUMBACH