Winding Shop of the PF1 Coil Double Pancakes

The Poloidal Field (PF) coils are one from four main sub-systems of the ITER magnet. The PF1 coil-a cylindrical ring coil with external diameter ~9 m, height ~1 m and weight ~200 ton-is supposed to be manufactured by Russian Federation (RF). The ring coil is composed as a stack of eight double pancakes (DP). Each DP is wound with "two-in-hand" conductors and consists of upper and lower pancakes. The paper presents the manufacturing installation for the turn insulation application and winding of the DPs. Key features of the complex are: · the manufacturing installation can be completely dismounted and assembled again a new within 1 month; · using of support rollers instead of expensive and complicated in service rotary table; · "two in hand" winding is performed by two sets of automated benders and insulating machines; · synchronization of operations by the driving block using of the National Instruments hardware and Lab View software. The manufacturing installation was put into operation. The results of the first trials are presented.