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Offering fuses Honeywell’s expertise in flat sheet quality control systems with Papertech’s know-how in web monitoring and inspection to help manufacturers boost production quality and efficiency

Honeywell has just announced its collaboration with  Papertech to develop and market TotalVision™, a connected, camera-based detection system for the flat sheet industries. The system enables customers to identify and resolve defects on the production line, improving quality and efficiency. The fully integrated total quality control solution is designed for flat sheet and film processes in which surface detection and production break monitoring capabilities are critical for competitive success. This new solution is designed for paper, pulp, tissue, board, extruded film, calendaring, lithium-ion battery, copper and aluminium foil producers.

Combining Honeywell’s  ExperionMX™ technology with market-leading Papertech’s TotalVision™ defect detection and event capturing capabilities, the solution provides a single-window operating environment for all aspects of process and quality control. Customers benefit from faster root cause determination of runnability and quality problems, thereby saving significant time in lost or downgraded production. When integrated with connected offerings such as  Honeywell QCS 4.0, system data and analytics can be accessed anytime, anywhere, from any device.

“Honeywell represents an ideal collaborator for Papertech as our industry-leading WebInspector WIS and our WebVision web monitoring system (WMS) single platform TotalVision™ camera system seamlessly integrate with Honeywell’s quality control systems for a range of industries,” said Kari Hilden, CEO of Papertech Inc. “We look forward to working with the global Honeywell team and their customers.”

Honeywell will continue to support existing camera system users with parts and services, while offering an easy migration path to the new solution. Given the collaborative nature of the agreement, customers can choose to take a single party, single-window approach or to engage with Honeywell and Papertech separately.

“As the world moves from plastic to biomaterial-based packaging, and from hydrocarbon-based transportation to electric vehicles, flat sheet producers are under increased pressure to ensure output consistently meets a variety of performance and safety requirements,” said Michael Kennelly, Global Business Leader for sheet, film and foil industries, Honeywell Process Solutions. “By bringing together Honeywell’s core strengths of measurement, control, connected applications and services in flat sheet production with Papertech’s leadership in web monitoring and inspection systems, we uniquely provide customers with that capability along with industry-beating lifecycle costs.”

Papertech is the global industry-leading machine vision system supplier for a range of web-based production lines with more than 1200 TotalVision™ installations in 42 countries. It is part of the IBS Paper Performance Group, a company with a more than 50-year history in delivering papermakers a full range of proven machine efficiency and product quality optimization solutions.

For more information visit Honeywell Quality Control Systems and  Papertech TotalVision solutions.

Papertech is pleased to announce that the first of two WebInspector® web inspection (WIS) system upgrades has been completed at the Arctic Paper, Grycksbo mill in Sweden. The existing Cognex camera beam has been fitted with new high definition digital matrix GigE cameras from Allied Vision and Papertech’s CleanJet lens cleaning system. This upgrade also marks the introduction of our new WebLED inspection beam, in this case providing high powered, pulsed transmission lighting.

The first of two on PM10, this WebInspector® will upgrade the pre-coater. The after coater WIS unit will follow using the same components. PM10 produces over 150,000 tons/year or high quality coated art papers, is 4.3 meters wide, and operates at speeds up to 1300m/min. PM10 was also upgraded to a digital WebVision® web monitoring system (WMS) last year with 12 cameras. This is now TotalVision™ integrated with the new WebInspector® into a single unified platform allowing easy and rapid defect to source analysis.

Since its introduction in 2004, WebInspector®, has proven to provide effective 100% sheet defect analysis on all types of paper grades. WebInspector® is uniquely designed to upgrade aging WIS units by utilizing existing structures to significantly reduce the cost of the upgrade. Similar upgrades have been successfully completed on ABB and Roibox (Honeywell) WIS units.

The Grycksbo mill is Papertech’s oldest European customer with our first  delivery taking place in 2000 for PM10. Since then Papertech has supplied WebVision systems to PM9 (2001) and PM7 (2004). The latest PM10 order includes an option for a WebInspector for PM7.

About Arctic Paper: Has a long tradition in papermaking. Together our four mills within the Arctic Paper S.A Group have many years of experience and expertise in Arctic Paper Grycksbo began in 1740, Arctic Paper Mochenwang established in 1868 with Arctic Paper Munkedals AB three years mill in Kostrzyn in 1958. We are a paper group with a dedicated for making superior graphic fine paper for demanding fine paper See more at: http://www.arcticpaper.com

About Papertech Inc.: we are the industry-leading machine vision system supplier for web-based production lines. There are now over 700 TotalVision™ installations in 35 countries, with a record 80 systems sold in 2013. Papertech’s unified TotalVision platform, combining event capturing (WMS) and web inspection (WIS), helps papermakers and tissue producers around the world optimize paper quality and production efficiency.

See more  at: www.papertech.ca

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Water, moist, heat, dust and chemicals agents are among the most common elements that can potentially damage your WebVision hardware if not kept under control

In September we began a series of videos showing the basic hardware components in a Webvision system. We started with lights, continued with digital cameras and today we finish this series talking about camera housings.

Camera housings keep excessive heat, moist, water, dust and chemicals away from cameras, lenses and electronics; ensuring the proper functionality of all internal components and preventing premature failure and helping extend their life even when installed in the harshest mill environments. A proper scheduled maintenance is highly recommendable to ensure longer life of all the internal components. If you want to learn more about our service packages, please click here.

Over the years we have seen cameras and lenses installed in competitors' systems that were severely damaged due to improper camera housing protection, and several times we were asked to provide a solution to this problem. In most cases, our camera housings were able to accomodate all internal components from other brands without radically altering their original configuration.
Our extensive selection of well-engineered camera housings fit most vendors' cameras, lenses and electronic components; talk to us if you need a better camera housing solution and we will gladly assess your system. A final piece of advice: Check the condition of the camera housings and watch for signs of corrosion, damage or early wear. Problems detected at an early stage are less expensive to fix.

Click here to watch the video [ You will be redirected to Papertech's website].

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If you missed the videos about lights and digital cameras, you can watch them on our website.
September 2012 - Lights (Click here)
October 2012 - Digital cameras (Click here)

Papertech's instructional video series is a useful resource tool to help you understand more about your WebVision system and increase its overall performance. The videos are designed for first time users but are also a great refresher for more experienced WebVision practitioners.

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By Chris Withers

The new generation of LED lights we just introduced uses custom LEDs that are more energy efficient than other types of light. The strobing (pulsing) mode allows the light to operate wth less energy and to last longer. Papertech leads the industry with this particular feature, which not only reduces the energy consumption but also maintenance and utility costs.

An upgrade from WebLite FX to the already successful WebLED28-SX light will provide you with more light, which means better image quality and higher shutter speeds. Among the new features are interchangable optics, a cooler surface, is optimized for WebVision digital cameras and is compatible with all analog cameras.

You can learn more about the light by clicking here.

The following light efficiency table shows how much light is generated (lumens) for the same amount of energy (watts):

(*) (**) High-Intensity Discharge lamps are often found in gymnasiums, large public areas,warehouses, movie theaters, football stadiums, etc. Compact Fluorescent Lamps were designed to replace incandescent lamps.

In today's How-to-Video we show you how to upgrade to WebLED28SX from WebLite FX. Click here to watch it. (You will be redirected to Papertech's website). Its is also hosted below.

The How-to-Videos series is a practical, step-by-step video guide to show you how to perform certain preventative maintenance tasks and also to provide you with useful tips to improve the overall performace of your WebVision system. It's a great resource tool designed for first time users but is also a great refresher for more experienced WebVision practitioners.

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