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Detonator Cord Winding Machine!

Purpose:

Winding, sealing, clip application, labelling and banding varying lengths of detonator cord. This special purpose machine was manufactured to strict safety standards required of a leading explosives manufacturer.

The detonator cord winding machine was the conversion, and manufacture, of an imperial machine to a metric version of the same machine, allowing the customer to have local support and to source off the shelf components locally rather than from overseas.
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Solution:

The metric machine was converted and

3D modelled

in

Autodesk Inventor

from a set of imperial drawings supplied by the customer. The project also included the

design

and implementation of an additional clip applicator and tube sealing unit.

The manufactured components were, depending on the component, built in house or shopped out due to time, manpower or equipment constraints. Off the shelf components were sourced, where possible, in

Australia

.
The metric machine was fully constructed at our premises, which included mechanical,

control system

, pneumatic and electrical assembly.

The construction phase was then followed by a testing and fine tuning phase before the machine was shipped to the customers premises and fully commissioned on-site.

Technology:

The detonator cord winding machine incorporated a multi axis

motion controller

, which controlled three

linear actuators

, which interacted with a rotary

indexing table

. The Pneumatics ranged from standard cylinders to a rodless

linear actuator

. The machine was controlled by a

PLC

and interfaced via a WinXP Embedded touch screen HMI.