Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for tracking amounts of wires provided to a winding head during a winding operation of a wire distribution system. The wires can be tracked using one or more wire tracking devices that can be disposed at one or more locations within the wire distribution system. The wire tracking devices can provide information related to the amounts of wires and the types of wires being used to wind about a winding head/form. The information can be used to check for errors during a winding operation and indicate the progress of the winding operation. The information can also be used to update wire-availability data to reflect the amount of wire that has been provided during the winding operation.

A winding apparatus, includes a winding core, a wire rod being wound on the winding core; a pair of flyers arranged across the winding core in an axial direction; flyer rotation means for rotating either one or both of the pair of flyers; wire storage tools respectively detachably provided on the pair of flyers, the wire rod to be wound on the winding core being stored on the wire storage tools; and tension devices respectively provided on the pair of flyers, the tension devices applying a tension to the wire rod fed from the wire storage tools and introduced to the winding core.

A winding apparatus, includes a winding core, a wire rod being wound on the winding core; a pair of flyers arranged across the winding core in an axial direction; flyer rotation means for rotating either one or both of the pair of flyers; wire storage tools respectively detachably provided on the pair of flyers, the wire rod to be wound on the winding core being stored on the wire storage tools; and tension devices respectively provided on the pair of flyers, the tension devices applying a tension to the wire rod fed from the wire storage tools and introduced to the winding core.

Computer program product, controller, winding machine and method for winding a winding material from a supply device onto a winding body of a winding machine, wherein the winding material is provided from a supply roller and wound onto the winding body via at least one deflection roller, where an actual winding tension of the winding material is set to a setpoint winding tension depending on a position-dependent compensation signal, stored in a storage unit, to compensate for a changeable free length, resulting from a non-circular cross section of the winding material, of the winding material between the deflection roller and the winding body, whereby due to the fact that the actual winding tension is set to the setpoint winding tension via the position-dependent compensation signal, which is already stored in the storage unit prior to the winding, the computational load for the setting can be reduced.

A control method for a winding wire manufacturing device that includes a base, a clamp, a bending top and a controller, includes a first process of detecting a bending torque applied to the bending top at the time of edgewise bending, a second process of determining whether or not a maximum value obtained by removing a torque value in starting the bending top from the bending torque is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value set in advance, and a third process of reducing a clamp load applied to a rectangular wire by the clamp when the maximum value of the bending torque is larger than the predetermined value.

A control method for a winding wire manufacturing device that includes a base, a clamp, a bending top and a controller, includes a first process of detecting a bending torque applied to the bending top at the time of edgewise bending, a second process of determining whether or not a maximum value obtained by removing a torque value in starting the bending top from the bending torque is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value set in advance, and a third process of reducing a clamp load applied to a rectangular wire by the clamp when the maximum value of the bending torque is larger than the predetermined value.

A method of winding coilware via a winding machine having a plurality of winding devices, which are drivable by a plurality of drives which comprise at least a supply roll and a winding body, includes providing the coilware from the supply roll and winding the coilware over at least one deflection roll onto the winding body, where at least one drive is adjusted as a function of a position-dependent compensation signal at least partly compensating a defect, and where the position-dependent compensation signal for the drive is provided by acquiring a time domain interference variable during a winding operation, transforming the acquired interference variable into a frequency domain spectrum, filtering the spectrum via a filter specific to the winding device assigned to the drive, transforming the filtered spectrum back into the time domain to provide a time-dependent compensation signal, and transforming the time-dependent compensation signal into the position-dependent compensation signal.

A winding apparatus includes a wire position support including first and second wire route hole in which first and second wires, respectively, are inserted, a winding driver that orbitally revolves the wire position support around a core of a coil component such that the first and second wires are wound around the core while twisted, a rotator that rotates the core, and a controller that controls the winding driver and the rotator. The controller performs first control, which orbitally revolves the wire position support in a first direction and rotates the core in an opposite second direction opposite, and second control, which orbitally revolves the wire position support in the second direction and rotates the core in the first direction, and switches between the first and second controls based on a predetermined condition, to prevent a kink of a wire between a wire feeder and a wire position support.

A winding apparatus includes a wire position support including first and second wire route hole in which first and second wires, respectively, are inserted, a winding driver that orbitally revolves the wire position support around a core of a coil component such that the first and second wires are wound around the core while twisted, a rotator that rotates the core, and a controller that controls the winding driver and the rotator. The controller performs first control, which orbitally revolves the wire position support in a first direction and rotates the core in an opposite second direction opposite, and second control, which orbitally revolves the wire position support in the second direction and rotates the core in the first direction, and switches between the first and second controls based on a predetermined condition, to prevent a kink of a wire between a wire feeder and a wire position support.

A coiled product, a control installation, computer software product, a coiling machine and method for coiling a coiled product, wherein the coiling tension is settable to an envisaged coiling tension, particularly to a constant coiling tension via either a setting unit and/or a change in the respective rotational speed of either a coil body and/or a supply roll, a characterizing aspect being the equalization of the free length of the coiled product, where the free length is the spacing of the first bearing point of the coiled product on the coil body from the second bearing point of the coiled product on a deflection roller such that the free length change is equalized by the setting unit and/or by a variation of the respective rotational speed so that coiling tension of a product coiled onto the coil body can be set in a simple, rapid, and precise manner.