Hammer-IMS NV, Hasselt/Belgium, drives quality control of advanced coated and multilayer textile manufacturing in line thickness and weight measurement systems. A capacitive C-Ray sensor is well suited for compact, low-cost measuring applications in plastic film extrusion. Also, a digital ultrasound U-Ray sensor has been introduced.
The system uses upgrading analog ultrasound sensing with digital signal processing techniques (DSP) to enable ultrasound wave phase detection. Thanks to its capability to measure through metallic materials, the U-Ray sensor fits solutions for battery film applications.
By combining multiple technologies from the Marvelous line of M, C, and U-Ray sensors, manufacturers can retrieve even more information from measurements taken with a single Hammer-IMS machine.
Textile and nonwoven producers configure their measuring solutions by selecting the appropriate Marveloc sensors (M-Ray, C-Ray, and U-Ray) or machine vision (Edge-Vision-4.0) mechanical platform. When the machine performs its task in the field, it is both practical and productive to monitor the production process remotely. This is particularly useful in the corona pandemic when traveling is limited.
Simultaneously, the company continues to sharpen its innovative digital M-Ray technology, making it also able to address heavy-weight carpets and thick bitumen products, for example. The M-Ray based measuring solutions are perceived as a safe and environmental-friendly alternative compared to radioactive measurement systems.
