production

OCE is manufacturing high precision products that have tolerance of micron meter. Take for examples 
a fiber has a diameter of 125-micron meter (thinner than most hair),

Single mode fiber has inner core of 9-micron meter and tolerance of less than 1-micron meter.

The core of the fiber must be right in the middle of the fiber.

The ferrule must be able to hold fiber in the center of the ferrule so that light can pass from 1 cable to another with less than 0.3dB light loss.

The termination polishing must be done just right with surface radius of curvature, fiber offset and concentricity to get low transmission loss.

Angle Ferrule must be polished at 8 degree to mate to another ferrule polished at that angle. In order to archive the precision, OCE has invested high technology, high precision equipment to produce the products in every departments.

Optical Fiber Department 
Optic fiber is drawn by fiber drawing tower from preform. Preform surface has to be in cleanest condition to be drawn to fiber. This is because a 45 to 100mm diameter preform is drawn to 125 micron meter fiber. Any minute particles on the surface of preform can become a problem for the fiber. So before the fiber is drawn, every square inches of the preform is flame polished to remove foreign particles and impurities that may be attached to the surface of the preform. 
Then the tip of the preform is warmed up to 2000-2200°C to produce fiber. The capstan has to ensure that constant pull is applied in order to keep the diameter of core and cladding constant and hence pass the ITU-T geometric specification. Optical Communication Engineering has 2 high tech, high precision fiber drawing towers since establishment of business. The first tower in operation is from SG Control(England) and the second tower from Nokia, Finland. Both towers are operating in Class 100 Clean room environment.

Usually, fiber are coated to 250 micron meter by UV cured acrylate material. However, if you are one of those who needed 400 micron meter coating diameter, then we can use the SWISS CAB LCF 110 machine to value add the fiber.

OCE can also offer to our esteem customers the optional facility to color fiber color for identification in loose tube cable using the SWISS CAB LCF 110 coloring machine.

SG Tower Handle Joining Colouring & Proof Test Machine SGC Vertical Lathe

Optic Cable Department 
OCE manufacture's indoor (tight buffered, simplex, zipcord) and outdoor (Loose tube) cable using the SWISS CAB cable lines. These cable lines are chosen for their high material extrusion accuracy. They are also easily to operate and maintain. These factors bring lower production cost for the cable product. 
OCE also has stranding line to strand maximum 24 simplex to breakout cable or 24 loose tubes to high fiber count cable. Stranded cable can be PVC or PE jacketed depend on the application. The cable can be further armoured for direct burial.

Secondary Coating Line Straining Line Jacketing Line 
Patch Cords, Jumper Cords and Pigtails Termination Department 
OCE offers comprehensive selection of connectors including FC, ST, SC, LC, MT-RJ which is ideal for telecommunications and data communications. OCE terminates optic cable with any of above connectors. 
The cable termination department has production facilities including 8 SEIKO mass polishing machine (Each process produces 16 pieces of termination) and 2 SANKYO mass polishing machines. OCE produces pigtails and patchcords with highest International Standard required by telecommunication companies in Japan, United State of America, United Kingdom, Germany, India, ASEAN countries and Australia.

To take volume order, OCE has 10 ferrule heater and 1 GZ-ESPEC oven to harden epoxy in ferrule under controlled environment.

Terminal Process Ferrule Heater(Top) & GZ-ESPEC(Bottom) Polishing Machine

Conclusion 
Apart from good equipment, OCE trains skill operators to do the job. At the same time processes are optimized and wastage reduced to ensure low production cost. Further more, purchasing officer is always at the look out for quality material at lower price. Such cost efficient production will be passed to you at lower buying price. OCE is always looking for production cost effectiveness without compromising the quality.

At OCE, production engineers are well trained to ensure that product are delivered on schedule. Therefore computer aided program are used to plain the production. Every process are also carefully monitored and documented, if possible captured by computer. The computers are networked to collect and produce statistic information.