- NONWOVENS INSPECTION
- Inline inspection systems for Nonwoven fabrics
- Why inline surface inspection is critical
- What matters most when inspecting nonwovens?
- Tailored for your market segment
- Precision inspection for nonwovens
- Reduce material waste & optimize raw material use
- Common surface defects
- Partnerships that power performance — How we support brand owners and Nonwoven machine builders
- Production analytics - Data-driven efficiency
- Service solutions and individual trainings
- Contact our experts
Inline inspection systems for Nonwoven fabrics
Zero defects. Full control. Maximum trust.
As a manufacturer of nonwoven fabrics, you're facing challendes in your production: quality, cost, efficiency. And above all – trust. That’s why you need a partner who not only understands your industry, but also your production priorities.
ISRA VISION is one of the leading solution providers in surface inspection. Our systems are extremely robust – helping you to:
- Reduce claims
- Enhance production efficiency
- Perfect process control
- Adapt to your special requests
Why inline surface inspection is critical
Tight specifications, complex processes, and high raw material costs leave no room for error. Defects in manufacturing that go undetected result in financial losses, damage to your reputation, and wasted time.
Inline inspection protects your product, your process, and your brand — by detecting problems before they escalate. It is especially effective for quality-critical nonwoven fabrics used in hygiene, filtration, or medical applications, where consistent surface quality is essential.
What matters most when inspecting nonwovens?
When choosing a surface inspection system, manufacturers in the nonwovens industry tell us their top priorities are:
- Ensuring they meet future brand-owner requirements
- Mitigating risk with limited budgets
- Finding a trusted partner with reliable technology
- Staying competitive and meeting industry standards
- Improving production efficiency
Tailored for your market segment
Our systems adapt to all key applications in the nonwoven industry — from hygiene and filtration to automotive and construction.
They are compatible with major material types such as airlaid, drylaid, spunbond, spunmelt, and wetlaid, and support a wide range of downstream processes: Embossing > Coating > Laminating > Printing > Slitting
Precision inspection for nonwovens
Our inspection systems are built to master the diverse challenges of nonwoven production — from high-speed spunbond lines to sensitive drylaid and wetlaid processes. Whether for hygiene, filtration, or medical applications: consistent, defect-free, and fully traceable quality is essential to meet your customers’ expectations.
Our inline systems combine high-speed line-scan cameras with optimized lighting to detect even the most subtle surface defects in real time. Integrated rule-based control and automatic stop functions minimize manual intervention and ensure seamless, documented quality monitoring.
Key capabilities at a glance
- Real-time surface inspection powered by AI
- Software tailored for nonwoven production
- Modular system design for all line configurations
- Seamless connectivity to MES/ERP (e.g. via OPC UA)
Seamless process integration
- Installed post web-formation and during converting stages
- Connects to coating, lamination, printing, rewinding and slitting processes
- Interfaces: OPC UA, MES/ERP, automatic roll reporting and alarms, metal detection devices
With our machine vision systems, you get precise, reliable results – enabling nonwoven roll inspection, defect visualization, and consistent quality at any web speed.
Reduce material waste & optimize raw material use
Nonwoven production is cost-intensive – especially when GSM safety margins are unnecessarily high. ISRA VISION helps you avoid this. With our inspection systems, you can precisely monitor grammage (GSM), ensuring you stay just above the tolerance threshold — not 5 grams more. This alone significantly reduces raw material consumption.
Our system enables intelligent slitting optimization by identifying defect-free zones to configure rolls efficiently and reduce waste.
Smart yield management through roll grading ensures that material is allocated to the most suitable customer applications — minimizing rework, cutting costs, and maximizing usable output.
→ Save material, save costs, and boost efficiency — with quality you can measure.
Common surface defects
Detecting defects is only the first step — accurate classification is just as important. Not every flaw is critical, and its impact often depends on type, size, or location. Clear classification enables targeted action and consistent quality decisions.
- Production defects
- Converting defects
- Classification
Production defects
Production defects in nonwoven fabrics and materials can occur at any stage of web formation or bonding. These flaws often result from unstable process parameters, raw material inconsistencies, or environmental contamination.
- Color deviations
- Contamination (dust, insects, oil, fibers)
- Damaged or clumped fibers
- Holes, cracks, shrinkage
- Bonding defects
- Irregular GSM-value (gram per square meter)
- Stains or spots
Converting defects
Minor irregularities during finishing process steps like coating or lamination, can lead to critical defects in fabric—such as voids, coating issues or misalignment—compromising product quality downstream.
- Coating: voids, streaks, orange peel, blisters
- Lamination: wrinkles, bubbles, delamination
- Printing: color variations, smears, register defects
- Slitting: inaccurate slit lanes and suboptimal slitting patterns affecting yield
AI-based defect detection leverages machine learning to classify surface anomalies into actionable categories — enabling faster operator response and long-term process optimization.
Classification categories
- Tolerate – non-critical
- Observe – within tolerance but should be tracked
- Critical – requires immediate action
- Compromised – must be removed or corrected
Partnerships that power performance — How we support brand owners and Nonwoven machine builders
Brand Owners
We help brand owners secure consistent quality and traceable results. By defining actionable standards together, inline inspection becomes a trusted tool — not just for defect detection, but for efficiency and transparency across batches.
Machine builders
Integrating our inspection systems at the design stage ensures a smooth, scalable setup — no retrofitting, no compromises.
This makes your line smarter, your offer more attractive, and your customer more successful.
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Production analytics - Data-driven efficiency
ISRA VISION’s web-based production analytics platform transforms inspection data into actionable insights – instantly and across all nonwoven production lines.
It offers full visibility into machine status, surface quality, and system health. With threshold monitoring and live alerts, operators can respond early and prevent costly deviations.
Sensor-based monitoring enables predictive maintenance by detecting anomalies as they emerge. This allows proactive maintenance planning based on actual machine condition – instead of relying on fixed schedules. The result: less downtime, higher productivity, and longer equipment life.
By analyzing defect trends, frequency, type, and position, you can:
- Identify root causes – from bonding defects to GSM fluctuations
- Optimize process parameters and machine settings
- Balance production lines, improve material efficiency, and reduce waste
- Continuously track optimization measures using advanced visual reports
- Benchmark suppliers, support audits, and move toward zero-defect production
Roll-based grading, defect heatmaps, and statistical reporting make surface quality measurable, visual, and traceable. Dashboards are accessible remotely and adaptable to different departments – allowing informed decisions across the entire production chain.
Service solutions and individual trainings
For the efficient and future-proof operation of your production systems our highly qualified service teams support you globally in all matters. We provide the implementation, maintenance and servicing as well as the analysis and optimization of your systems.
Learn in the ISRA VISION Academy how our competent trainers always keep your employees up to date with the latest knowledge so that system operators, product engineers and quality managers become real inspection experts.
