On-going emphasis on improving quality and reducing waste in polymer refining and converting has resulted in easy to use, cost effective instruments that can provide 100 percent quality analysis of polymer film. A brief tutorial of vision system technology, focusing on the inspection of polymer webs, will be provided by Adaptive Optics Associates Inc., a world leader in high-speed commercial and industrial vision systems. The technique of building polymer-specific 'intelligence' into a quality analysis vision system will be discussed. Included in this presented will be specific examples from field use of the Advisor web inspection as well as the lessons learned during the genesis of this application specific product.

Date Published: 17 December 1998
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 3518, Sensors and Controls for Intelligent Machining, Agile Manufacturing, and Mechatronics, (17 December 1998); doi: 10.1117/12.332808

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3518:
Sensors and Controls for Intelligent Machining, Agile Manufacturing, and Mechatronics
Patrick F. Muir; Patrick F. Muir; Peter E. Orban, Editor(s)