Driven linear system solves reeling problem

摘要

The problems that occur when reeling in a garden hose after use equally apply to the reeling process involved in flexible mandrel production. If the hose isn't guided effectively it tends to build up on one side of the reel, coil too loosely, tangle, kink or jam. This is precisely the problem that flexible mandrel manufacturer Bell Plastics faced as its newly extruded mandrels were being coiled, then uncoiled for quality inspection and finally re-coiled for despatch. The guiding mechanism, as production engineer, Sean Noonan explains, just wasn't up to the job.