Our objective was to deliver only first quality paper to the slitter winder to avoid possible breaks and therefore, to reduce downtime in the further process steps.

Good light distribution, wide image range coverage and light sensitivity of Procemex cameras was crucial for our decision.

If we discover defects, we can now detect them at an early stage and reduce winder downtime.

The opportunity for us was to develop a solution to reduce the air consumption of the system.

Procemex carried out well our wishes and the results are convincing: At the end, we have seen a notable rise in production volume due to the significant 30% decrease of unknown web breaks at slitter winder, which also enabled our team to take action against and to prevent these breaks more efficiently.

Procemex solution is not cheap, but the payback time is very short for a Procemex system - this is a very important investment.

Our target is to reduce web breaks at least 15 % per machine in a year in a short view. Our printers make very long runs up to 11 million copies; we cannot afford to have too much and too long breaks. Therefore the web monitoring system has a big impact on our productivity and runnability

Our main target is to improve mill’s regularity, since our printer customers have faced problems with blankets or other parts of the machine, and we want to reduce the amount of compensations. With Procemex system we are able to improve our quality, and not just waiting for feedback from customers.

The important thing is the tracking. Production and quality people are working closely together to improve the quality in total. The image quality is very good, I would also like to have low angle reflection added.

With the strong team of Procemex Inc. we look forward to providing our customer more and better service.

We compared three different suppliers and ended up with Procemex, first of all, because we have had positive experiences with the previous system and, secondly, because we were able to upgrade the previous system – without needing to acquire a completely new one. We also investigated what benefits we can gain from the upgrade. In the end, the decision was an easy one; after all, we obtained a wholly new system by simply upgrading the old one.

We can better detect any dirt and impurities.

The experience we have had so far indicate that the detection of defects is now much more visual than in the previous system, and the classification of defects has improved. Operators have already given us direct positive feedback, saying that the image quality is on a completely different level and, therefore, there are fewer web breaks.

Pinhole cameras keep clean, you don’t have to polish the lens all the time, Procemex cameras lights? stay clean. And this affects of course to the image quality, as well. This is the major advantage compared to the old system.

Now we can locate the web break causes more easily, troubleshooting is faster and easier. Also analysing is quick, because the cameras are synchronized with each other.

After the commissioning we could see a major improvement in process monitoring quality. The reaction times were significantly reduced.

It is not just the image quality and work of Procemex that impresses me. The intensive partnership and results oriented co-operation are essential success factors for a sustainable quality control.