Lapp India is 100% subsidiary of LAPP Group, the German Cable Manufacturer, founded in 1957. In 1996, Lapp India started its operations by setting up a state-of-the-art manufacturing unit at Jigani, Bengaluru. A second plant was set up at Bhopal in 2012. Each year Lapp manufactures 1,80,000 kms of cables at these facilities.

The Bangalore cable manufacturing unit had both an online and offline insulation thickness measurement systems. The online laser based system, placed next to the extruder provided  real time diameter readings. And for offline measurements they had a Field of View based manufacturing systems and a Profile Projector. However, the existing FOV based systems had a few issues; Firstly it needed a trained operator to run the equipment so that if for some reason the operator was not available, the samples would pile-up. Secondly, there was built-in error in the system so that the samples would always measure a few microns more than their actual value. Thirdly, the system did not have automated concentricity measurement functionality so that the operator had to manually calculate concentricity for each sample. This necessitated a need for a system that did not have these issues.

In 2019, the Lapp Quality Team headed by Mr. Ravi Kumar, came across Sipcon’s Cable Quickie, the one click system for measuring cable insulation and sheath thickness. The team had a demo and liked the accuracy and the measurement speed of the system. Moreover, it did not require any special skills to operate so that anyone in the quality lab with basic computer skills could run it. Also, the eccentricity of the cable cross-section which was a major parameter that the team wanted to know could be calculated instantly.  Sipcon installed an SVI-CQ-48 model at Lapp Bangalore a few days after the demo. Now the team could quickly and easily measure the 70-80 samples in a day and since there are no moving parts in the machine, it is virtually maintenance free.