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Grading software shown during Interwire 2025 provides real-time material grading At Interwire 2025, Magnetic Analysis Corp. (MAC®) demonstrated how its grading software helps wire, rod, and bar manufacturers effectively meet a wide range of customer quality standards with precision and consistency.
Per the company, wire producers often supply customers in industries ranging from construction to aerospace—each with its own expectations for surface condition, inclusion levels, and documentation. MAC’s Grading Software was developed to address this challenge by providing real-time, automated grading during production. Integrated with MAC’s MultiMac® or Minimac® II eddy current testers, the system can categorize individual segments or full coils based on user-defined thresholds for defect type and quantity. Operators can configure grading criteria such as the number and type of surface defects allowed per segment or coil, and assign color-coded grade levels accordingly. The software then automatically assigns a grade and generates reports that include coil ID, defect counts, date, time and testing equipment used. Multilingual support and CSV-format reports make it easy to integrate this data into customer databases or print labels for shipment. For manufacturers balancing multiple production lines and varied customer specs, the ability to tag and track coils by grade streamlines both internal workflows and outbound quality communication. This allows producers to deliver exactly what each customer needs—no more, no less—while minimizing scrap and overprocessing. MAC’s Grading Software empowers wire producers to deliver consistent, traceable quality tailored to each end
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application. The result? Greater efficiency, transparency, and customer satisfaction—right from the production floor. Contact: Magnetic Analysis Corp., info@mac-ndt.com, www.mac-ndt.com.
Surface clearing technology was on display for attendees at Interwire 2025 At Interwire 2025, Germany’s Boockmann Engineering, among other topics, once again presented the company’s HELICORD® technology for wire and cable cleaning and coating, focusing on small diameter wire. Per the company, the HELICORD principle is based on friction between a fast-moving wire and a textile cord or yarn wound around a wire, strand or insulated cable multiple times, moving rather slowly under push-pull-controlled conditions, creating a multiple 360° contact between the constantly renewed cleaning cord and wire. The company notes that the use of small amounts of liquids, such as water-based tensides (surfactants), organic solvents, oil or a variety of dispersions, may be desirable or even required for both cleaning and coating processes, depending on the application in question. While HELIFIL machines NB59 are limited to friction forces below 35 N and wire diameters below 3 mm for soft metals, NB56 models are designed for cleaning of wire diameters of 0.2 down to 0.02 mm. Based on a similar yarn and wire guidance as used for lubricant application on fine and ultra-fine magnet wires, it provides tangential, but still fully circumferential, cleaning of the wire surface below the 0.2 % yield strength of the wires. The very latest development, however, allows bringing back the HELICORD principle to NB56 for fine wire (see picture): Using special cord and wire guide pulleys,
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