Wire drawing machines
Fully automatic Robobina by Gimax
Fully automatic Robobina by Gimax. Gimax has been manufactoring fully automatic respoolers for the past 15 years Since the presentation of the first fully automated respooling line for welding wire at the Duesseldorf Wire Show of 1992, Gimax has successfully produced more than 220 of these machines, sold to producers of solid and tubular steel welding wire all over the world. These respooling lines were designed right from the start to precision layer wire on a spool – at the beginning the spool was a wire basket, but market requirements obliged Gimax to redesign and adapt the machine to plastic spools too. The current machine can handle wire baskets, plastic spools and also fi bre spools onto which it can rewind from 15 to 20kg of steel wire. Variations of this machine also exist for smaller plastic spools and wire baskets (for 5 or 7kg of steel wire), as well as for larger plastic or fibre spools (for 27kg of steel wire). Admittedly the majority of these machines have been sold to producers of low carbon steel welding wire (MIG wire), but many have also been supplied to respool steel fl ux cored wire, 5356 aluminium welding wire and stainless steel. From the very fi rst analog ROBOSPIRA respoolers, full of buttons and switches, that required time and patience to set-up, we now have the fully digital ROBOBINA fully controlled by PLC, with a much simpler “touch screen” display allowing the operator to easily and speedily interface with the settings and controls. Machines can now be linked together and to a remote system allowing the download of production data. Telemaintenance has fast become a standard allowing Gimax to intervene via modem to check status and alarms, settings, software and download upgrades. One thing that has not been lost over time however, is the capacity of the machine to produce high volumes; high speed does not necessarily mean high production. It is imperative that the machine is not only fast, but reliable and efficient, and this can come only after so many years if experience – the workingcycle of the machine is designed to reduce downtime to an absolute minimum.
