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Automation for cable and fiber optics. From glass to the seabed.

We automated the towers that draw the fiber, the line that puts it into tubes and the system that lays the cable at sea.

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A coiled armored fiber-optic cable, opened in steps at one end: from the left, the colored fibers coming out of a tube, the tubes stranded around the fiberglass central member with the two binder yarns, the water-blocking tape, the blue inner sheath, the galvanized steel wire armor and the black outer sheath with its printed marking.

How a cable is made

Six steps, six different lines. Each with its own motors to keep in sync.

The cable cut through and seen head-on: at the center the strength member, around it six colored tubes with twelve fibers each, then the blue inner sheath, the ring of steel armor wires and the black outer sheath.
An armored optical cable, cut through. Eighteen millimeters, seventy-two fibers.
  1. 1

    Fiber

    Glass melts at the top of a tower and comes down as a strand an eighth of a millimeter thick.

  2. 2

    Tube

    The fibers, colored one by one, go in groups into a tube that protects them.

  3. 3

    Stranding

    The tubes wind around a central member that takes the pulling load.

  4. 4

    Sheath

    The bundle is sealed in a layer of extruded polyethylene.

  5. 5

    Armor

    Helical steel wires and one last sheath, for cables that go underground or into the sea.

  6. 6

    Laying

    The finished cable is wound onto reels or, for the sea, into the carousel of a ship.

Projects

Three lines, three projects. From the first fiber to the last meter at sea.

Base of two fiber-optic draw towers: green frame, furnaces, operator panels and stack lights.

1 · Fiber

The draw towers

Furnaces, gases and axes in a few meters, readable at a glance. Signals in order, a process overview on the panel, push-button stations that say the same thing as the software.

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Tube line in the workshop: a row of green stations with yellow pulleys, each with its own motor, and the control panels in the background.

2 · Tube

The tube line

Many stations, each with its own motor, and the same tension from first to last. Panel with the drives, line logic and HMI, tested in our workshop before delivery.

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One of the companies in this industry that trusted us

The first step

Where in the chain are you? Tell us about the line.
We’ll take it from there.

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