Glossary of Terms

Click on a letter below to view the terms and definitions that start with that letter

A

Accumulating Guide Plate

This is a narrow metal plate or series of plates that maintain the wire direction during the gripper feed cycle.

Active Coils    

The coils which are free to deflect under force

Alarm History

A viewable list of alarm types, number of occurrences, dates and duration of occurrence which can be used to track equipment and or operator efficiencies on TAK cut to lengths systems.

Allen Bradley™

A supplier and industry standard for electrical components such as PLCs, sensors, etc used by OEM companies

Arbor    

A round rod on a spring coiler over which wire is coiled to form an object such as a spring

Arbors

The spinning elements of a rotary straightener that rotate around the wire and hold the straightening guides

Arrowheads

The shape that can result from cutting tubing.

Autonomation

Stopping a line automatically when a defective part is detected. [Same as Judoka

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B

Back Tension

The tension applied to a coiled material as it passes between the reel and the processing station. An adequate back-tension must be maintained to ensure that the material spools correctly on or off the reel.

Baking

Heating electroplated springs to remove hydrogen

Bar

a solid piece or block of material that is usually considerably longer than it is wide

Barber Pole

A condition as the result of marking or scratching wire due to the improper setting of a rotary straightener

Basket

The ( typically ) circular base of a wire payoff where the bundles or coils rest.

Batch Mode

A settable condition on a TAK cut to length system to be able to cut “groups” of pieces based on packaging requirements. This mode would allow a customer to cut a 1,000 pieces in 20 batches of 50 pieces each.

Batching

The requirement to group a number of pieces together. – A screen settable value on a TAK SF&C system

Beckhoff™

A European brand of PC used in the Colombi spring coiling systems that is Windows™ compatible

Big Detangler

A Colombi® brand spring detangler for large size springs.

Bigmatic™

An automatic spring separator and feeding system manufactured by Colombi for delivering individual orientated springs to a particular location. The Bigmatic™ is designed to bigger springs than the Colombi Speedfeeder™

Bihler

Bird Nesting

Materials that have lost containment of desired removal sequence and snagging or knotting will occur.

Bottleneck

Any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the demand placed on it.

Bowl Feeder

A vibrating container with an inclined “tooled” track to feed out a part or item in a particular orientation

Buckling

Bowing or lateral deflection of compression springs when compressed, related to the slenderness ratio – A condition that can occur when feeding fine wire without guides.

Bundle

See Coil

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C

Cable

Cam Lock

This is a device that closes several rolls or bearings on one side of a straightener bank or plane. I t is also referred to as a “quick release”. Its purpose is to allow for quick loading of wire into a wire straightener and is generally only needed on large wire straighteners.

Cassette Tooling

This refers to a particular “configuration” or packaging of tooling items that ensures a simple yet precise way of allowing a particular machine to be quickly converted over from one production project to another.

Cast

The “bend” or “curve” that a wire takes when placed on a spool, reel, or if in a coil. to turn or change shape under torsion or to assume a spiral shape

Centering Posts

The adjustable tubular poles on a wire payoff used to keep the ID of the coil centered on the basket

Ceramic Guide

A TAK system material guide made from ceramic

Chamfering

Clamping Lever

See Cam - Lock

Coil

A coil is made of materials, usually rigid, which can be fashioned into a spiral or helical shape. Flexible materials like wire, rope, hose, or cable can also be coiled into empty loops, or wound around a central drum or spindle.

Coil Set

The “curve” or “bend” that wire takes when wrapped or bundled in coils.

Coil Stock

The specific packaging of wire or narrow strip into bunches or bundles that are tie wrapped into “stock” coil weights.

Coining

Colombi

A division of the Swedish company Tekno-Detaljer that manufactures in-line spring coiling systems and detanglers

Conical Springs

A spring shape similar to a cone or hour glass– A type of spring that can be made on the Colombi spring coiler system

Constraint

Anything that limits a system from achieving higher performance, or throughput. That bottleneck which most severely limit the organization's ability to achieve higher performance relative its purpose/goal.

Corkscrew

A term to describe wire that has a Helix or “pig-tail” in it.

Cylindrical Springs

A spring shape that has a symmetrical cylindrical shape with the outer diameter being the same over the whole length – A type of spring that can be made on the Colombi spring coiler system.