Cognex will be introducing a totally new on-line web quality analysis capability to its SmartView Nonwovens Web Inspection System. WQM or Web Quality Monitoring will be shown for the first time at INDEX in Geneva.
For the first time SmartView with WQM can determine and display true web formation information as the material is being made. The results are continuously reported in terms that are meaningful and useful to the operator. This allows process changes that impact quality to be made before large amounts of off-spec material have been produced.
With unparalleled acceptance by all major roll goods producers and converters, SmartView has become the world’s most relied on system for detecting, identifying, visualizing and reporting web defects. SmartView is currently inspecting virtually all types of nonwoven fabrics such as spunbond, spunlace, carded, laminated, airlaid, thermal bond and needlepunch.
A typical system is composed of CCD cameras, image processing electronics, computers and software, as well as lighting components.
