Apparatus for thermal control of tubing assembly and associated methods

A system for manufacturing a tubing assembly, comprising:

• a winding apparatus configured to wind an electrical resistance heating filament wire around a tubing assembly as the tubing assembly is moved through the winding apparatus, the tubing assembly including a plurality of tubing structures connected to each other in a configuration providing one or more fluid pathways through the plurality of tubing structures from a fluid entrance of the plurality of tubing structures to a fluid exit of the plurality of tubing structures, the winding apparatus including an open bore within which the electrical resistance heating filament wire is wound around the tubing assembly as the tubing assembly passes through the open bore;
• a tubing assembly handling apparatus configured to hold the tubing assembly and direct movement of the tubing assembly through the open bore of the winding apparatus, wherein the tubing assembly handling apparatus includes a robot configured to change a position of the tubing assembly between multiple different spatial orientations as the tubing assembly is moved through the open bore;
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• a winding control system configured to control operation of the winding apparatus and the tubing assembly handling apparatus, the winding control system configured to control a rate at which the electrical resistance heating filament wire is wound around the tubing assembly as the tubing assembly passes through the open bore, the winding control system also configured to control a rate at which the tubing assembly is moved through the open bore of the winding apparatus, the winding control system configured to be programmable such that movement of the tubing assembly through the open bore of the winding apparatus as the electrical resistance heating filament wire is wound around the tubing assembly by the winding apparatus is performed in an automated manner in accordance with a program executed by the winding control system.