Improving papermaking & coating efficiency with web inspection cameras, 2011 PaperCon Conference

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Paper breaks and various defects are an efficiency robbing reality on all types of paper machines, coaters and downstream converting operations. Eliminating breaks and paper defects has become more and more important with the increasing speed and operating complexities of today’s paper, board & tissue machines. Papertech’s TotalVision™ now offers papermakers a single high speed camera based platform allowing all types of defects (holes, slime, oil, etc.) at the reel to be seamlessly analyzed to their root cause right to the wet-end. This eliminates operator guesswork and rapidly allows breaks and defects to be eliminated.

The system is based on fully digital high speed & resolution cameras from the winder to the wet-end that are combined into a single web inspection and web monitoring platform, with a single user interface, able to automatically pinpoint and analyze all types of process disturbances. It uses the latest GigE-Vision® based digital cameras, GigE digital video transmission and intuitive digital image processing software, to see at high machine speeds the event and find its origin. The cameras continuously monitor, in real-time, all of the critical locations from the wet-end to the dry-end of the paper machine resulting in total 100% sheet analysis.