Web Inspection Technology Showcase
Company: Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), www.avt-inc.com
Product: The PrintVision/Orion
What is it?: A 100-percent automatic inspection system and quality assurance for folding carton single pack applications.
Features:
• Inspects quality with a Linear CCD camera
• Detects diecut and creasing faults and will eject defective blanks while collecting and stacking good ones
• Can handle blanks of up to 17˝ at speeds up to 40,000 blanks per hour
Company: Rotoflex International, www.rotoflex.com
Product: VLI eDRIVE series
What is it?: Inspection slitter/rewinders designed for consistency, low maintenance, lower tension, higher speeds, and easy job setup/operation.
Features:
• AC Vector Motor Drive System to control unwind and rewind
• Controlled acceleration/deceleration
• Maximum machine speed of 850 fpm
• Rewind capacity on single rewind-24˝ (dual rewind-20˝) and unwind capacity of 30˝
Company: Unilux, www.unilux.com
Product: Lith-O-Light 5
What is it?: A handheld inspection system with remote control, digital readout, and intensity control for narrow webs.
Features:
• Full inspection for widths of up to 9˝
• Has a small, lightweight design
• Can be mounted on swivel mounts or articulating arms for positioning anywhere on rewind tables or printing presses
Company: Mark Andy, www.markandy.com
Product: VSR300
What is it?: An inspection rewinder for slitting and finishing of pressure-sensitive materials and filmic rolls.
Features:
• Web widths of 13˝, 17˝, and 20˝ and a maximum speed of 900 fpm
• AC vector rewind with closed-loop taper tension control
• 32˝ capacity optional roll loader for high-capacity rolls of stock
• Quick Change (“QC”) slitter modules
• Extended length inspection table
Company: Arpeco, a Precision Automation Company, arpeco.com
Product: Premier-SD 20/20
Inspection Slitter/Rewinder
What is it?: An inspection system that combines multi-motor servo drive web transport technology with a shuttle retrieval system to provide bi-directional inspection, fault editing, and re-inspection of high-value-added or security sensitive products, in a single pass.
Features:
• The machine stops and the product is reversed only when faults are present
• Shuttle retrieval system that allows the unwind roll to move in the forward direction only
• Stable web tension
• Isolated bi-directional web movement
• Unidirectional finishing
• Finishing functions are performed in a unidirectional mode
Company: ISRA Vision, www.isravision.com
Product: SMASH Surface Inspection System
What is it?: A web inspection system that provides early warning of defects as well as statistical information to more effectively manage the process and to increase throughput of first-quality product.
Features:
• A rewind control package that stops the rewinder at the location of a defect
• Roll analysis software that defines the optimum slit and splice locations
• 60-MHz line scan cameras and an ultra bright LED illumination
Company: Erhardt+Leimer, www.erhardt-leimer.com
Product: TubeLight illumination system
What is it?: Providing diffused light for the NYSCAN system, the lighting system inspects printed webs with foil decoration, embossing, and metallized substrates.
Features:
• 100-percent print inspection
• Job configuration that boosts productivity by requiring just a few mouse clicks
• Adjustable inspection sensitivity
Company: Label Vision Systems, Inc. (LVS), www.labelvisionsystems.com
Product: LVS 7000 Print Quality Inspection System
What is it?: A print quality inspection system using vision technology.
Features:
• Validates sequential numbers and bar codes and verifies linear and matrix bar codes to ISO standards
• 100-percent inspection of the printed image is possible, as print defects and human readable can also be inspected at the same time
• The LVS 7000 inspection system is e-Pedigree and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
Company: PC Industries, www.pcindustries.com
Product: Guardian PQV
What is it?: 100-percent print quality verification for pharmaceuticals
Features:
• High-resolution digital area scan or line scan cameras that find defects on presses and inspection rewinders at full speeds
• Alerts operator of defects and will automatically stop the printing
• Counting, full reporting, and documentation in compliance with FDA requirements
Company: BST Pro Mark, www.bstpromark.com
Product: Super HandyScan 4000
What is it?: A 100-percent web inspection system with “smart system” functions designed to deliver maximum efficiency and productivity, to save time make on-press quality control easy and efficient.
Features:
• Virtual Repeat Technology™
• Combi-Scan and optional color monitoring and job recipe storage
• Video inspection morphed with Print Process Management
Company: Trucolor Vision Systems, Inc., www.tcvs.com
Product: Digital TG4000 Series NANO
What is it?: An automatic web inspection system
Features:
• Next generation all digital technology and touch-screen interface
• TruColor’s technology uses an ultra-high resolution digital camera with LCD monitors
• Automatic Fill Scan mode for 100-percent sequential inspection of the print repeat
• Can be adapted to narrow-, mid-, and wide-web print inspection applications
Company: KOR Engineering Inc., www.korengineering.com
Product: MW Series Inspection Slitter/Rewinder
What is it?: Mid-web inspection slitter/rewinder for finishing beverage labels, shrink films, and special laminates
Features:
• Multi-axis tension control system that enables high-speed processing of unsupported thin films
• Handles 34˝ wide web widths and has a top speed of 1500 fpm
• Shaftless unwind c/w roll lifter
• Splicing table, web guide, inspection area, web accumulator and infeed draw head
