Winders
Saurer Hamel HD-Winder Rebuild, Upgrade and Retrofit
The HD-Assembly Winder is a fully electronic assembly winding machine with motor spindle drive. The HD-Assembly Winder combines the high production speed of conventional systems with the advantage of an assembly winding concept which inserts a protective twist.
We managed to take out all the Legacy Controls and Electronics and equipped it with new off the shelve components. We used PC Controls from Beckhoff as the main controller and the Kollmorgen AKD Series Servo Drive for the traverse axis replacing the Stormag Drive. We used Omron drives for each of the spindle axis instead of the Hamel/Saurer custom VFD drives.
We used InduSoft Web Studio for recipe management. Recipes can be saved to or loaded from a file that is in XML format. These XML recipe files can be created in a separate computer and made available to the PC (or PCs) using the Recipe Manager.
In addition to the Recipe Manager, IWS can create, read from, and write to XML files. This is a powerful capability that can be utilized, for example, to transfer production data records (e.g. summary data, sample data) and reports from a PC running IWS to another PC.
All in all it is a much user friendly machine also a much more reliable machine then in it's original state with Stromag/Lust Drive Tronics Drive.
From a Old Unit
To a Technically Enhanced Unit
Old Controls and HMI
New Controls and HMI