Calendered Film
Meet the toughest customer requirements for optical properties, color fidelity and flawlessness in calendered film such as PVC for high-end furniture or packaging, while also reducing costs: ISRA inspection systems identify both optical flaws and process-related defects, processing inspection data and making it available to operators immediately.
This makes it possible to eliminate defect causes as quickly as possible and to prevent subsequent complaints, as only on-spec material is delivered to customers. Costs incurred due to set-up times and downtimes are also minimized.
Based on the inspection data, both reports and data analyses can be generated for every delivered roll and every cut sheet. This ensures guaranteeing the specified quality and providing a sound line of reasoning should customer complaints arise.
100% inspection and 100% documented quality, guarantee the product safety and successful customer audits.
100% Inline Surface Inspection of Calendered Films
The system is designed to inspect transparent, opaque and translucent materials automatically. Operators are therefore equipped with a powerful tool that allows them to minimize defect sources and reduce waste immediately. Only flawless material is delivered to customers.
Beyond Inspection Tools
ISRAs optional SMASH system add-ons deliver more than inspection: The Beyond Inspection Tools process the recorded inspection data and realize additional opportunities in optimization, validation, and data evaluation.
The following SMASH options achieve these potentials:
Full documentation of the entire surface area offers real-time information on material properties such as reflectivity and gloss. As a result, products like food or cosmetic packaging always meet the required quality specifications, eliminating costly customer complaints.
Verifying, optimizing and creating inspection recipes offline without having to shut down the production line reduces set-up times considerably, maximizing inspection efficiency and minimizing costs. The settings can be managed and standardized in a global and centralized manner, guaranteeing uniform quality specifications in every production line around the world.
Analysis of defect images and correct classification of all defects in predefined defect classes: Based on a wide variety of defect characteristics, this tool is an essential element in analyzing defects and their causes in the best possible way and preventing defects with minimal effort. The intuitive user interface helps operators to complete their tasks while ensuring that only flawless products are delivered to customers.
The software uses inspection data regarding the number and severity of defects, the quality of individual sections as well as the entire roll. It thereby classifies the roll condition according to various quality levels. This clearly indicates whether a roll meets the necessary specifications and can be delivered to the end customer.
The Rewind Manager enables users to control a rewinder with high precision, navigate accurately to surface defects such as insects or dirt spots, repair defects in a targeted way, and remove foreign particles. By turning waste into marketable products at low cost, you can improve your production yields and ensure customer satisfaction.
Calibration tools that can be integrated into the line quickly and easily, combined with dedicated software solutions. The ideal camera and lighting settings are checked and verified to ensure inspection results with increased repeatability.
Online validation tools for checking and documenting the correct function of the overall system: The software constantly monitors the accuracy of all geometric alignments and settings of the cameras, lighting, and parameters, even during the inspection process.
Software for yield-boosting analysis of inspection data: The data can easily be prepared for statistical purposes, allowing you to create user-specific reports, e.g. in Excel.
Software solution designed to use inspection data to achieve maximum material yield: When calculating the ideal cut, the system also takes material distortion into account and automatically ejects only those areas identified as waste. It also ensures that the quality of the cut products can be easily matched to customer orders.
These two tools access both historic and current data and make it available for further analysis. They also allow users to monitor and modify inspection parameters. Multiple users can access the password-protected data simultaneously from various locations.