Abstract
In the mid 1980’s, an automatic jacket thickness and eccentricity control system was installed on a number of polyethylene telephone cable jacketing lines at Northern Telecom (Canada) Kingston Works Plant. At the time, it was claimed by the supplier that by switching from a manual to an automatic operation, material savings of 4 to 8% could be achieved (Brunner and Merki, 1985). A 10% material savings on the jacket material provides a one year payback on the installed cost of the control system.
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Lee, P.L. (1993). Eccentricity Control of a Cable Jacketing Line. In: Lee, P.L. (eds) Nonlinear Process Control. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2079-7_6
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