PLCRookie
Industrial
- Feb 21, 2006
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Hello all! This is my first post here, so please bear with me. I am a Manufacturing Engineer and I am looking fo a non-contact sensor to measure the thickness of a Web as it is fed into a machine. The material is a filter type media composed of basically paper fiber. The problem I am trying to solve is that the supplier of the paper is prone to "splice " the roll during production, and this causes us tremendous problems when we try to process it . The splice is almost always overlapped and then taped. This c auses my process to jam severly, resulting in about 20 minutes of downtime on each occurance. If I can detect the splice, and stop the machine, restarting takes about 1 minute. Until QC can resolve the problem with the vendor, I want to install some sensors to detect the thickness difference. The range is about 1mm for a correct piece, anything more than 1.5mm should be detectable. Anyone with experience with this kind of sensor?
All comments greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks
All comments greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks