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Inspection, Measuring, Testing & Marking
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• Fully integrated weighing, measuring, and marking system
• The WMS System typically performs:
P.O. Box 5000 • Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 • p: 888.642.3600 / 740.642.3600 • f: 740.642.5001 • e:
Weigh-Measure-Stencil System
(WMS System)
InfoSight Corporation
"We BARCODE Difficult Stuff" ™
InfoSight WMS systems are usually custom-designed to fit the user’s pipe flow geometry and passline height. In-line Systems,
Lateral Transfer Systems, and “Hybrid” systems (Hybrids use a combination of both In-Line and Lateral Transfer subsystems),
are possible. In-line Systems are designed to fit into an in-line pipe
conveyor. Lateral transfer systems include pipe handling and are designed
to receive a pipe at a “pickup” station, and then process the pipe
laterally through length, weight, colorband, stamp, and stencil operations,
and then discharge the pipe to a “drop-off” station.
Weigh-Measure-Stencil System
- Weight Measurement
- Length Measurement
- Pipe-by-Pipe Production Report
printout, with time, length,
weight, and message data record
- Colorbanding (optional)
- Stenciling, dot matrix
- Tally Report printout totalizes
length and weight, for both
GOOD pipe and REJECT pipe
- Stamping, dot matrix (optional)
WE MANUFACTURE
IDENTIFICATION SOLUTIONS
F E A T U R E S
InfoSight Corporation manufactures
industrial identification machinery
for many industrial applications,
integrating our advanced marking,
tagging, and bar code technologies
to solve difficult manual and
automatic identification applications
in industry worldwide.
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Tagging
Machine
Coil
Tagging
Machine
Part of the Sonatest NDE Group, Atlantis
NDE is the independent manufacturer of
ultrasonic flaw detectors, x-ray equipment,
scanning systems, thickness gauges,
transducers and NDT accessories.
The company produces the Cyclops
automatic inline system for the inspection,
evaluation and monitoring of spot welds via
ultrasound, using artificial vision for position
control. The system is adaptable for any
industry where inline spot weld testing is
required.
Cyclops provides traceability, consistency
and repeatability of ultrasonic tests, and
a wider scope for quality control due to
faster inspection processes which allow a
larger number of spot welds to be tested.
The typical inspection time of a spot weld,
including positioning, varies from 3 to 6
seconds.
Weld process monitoring is another
advantage, as it allows real time data
output at critical points throughout the line
for statistics and control. The system also
eliminates the need for offline
testing, removing the costs of
manual inspection, reducing
line stoppages, and cutting
down wastage by faster
identification of errors.
The Cyclops system features
a specialised, high-resolution
ultrasonic probe with a dry
contact solid interchangeable
rubber delay, developed to
give the best performance
for spot weld inspection. It
allows a dry contact test for a
wider scope of sheet thicknesses and weld
diameters than can be inspected using a
traditional bubble probe.
The application software automatically
evaluates the ultrasonic signal and visual
input, then classifies the weld, adds the
result to the database and updates the
history records and statistics. Single or
multichannel boards allow independent
operation of up to four units.
Atlantis NDE – Spain
Fax: +34 91 710 99 84
Website:
Inline spot weld testing systems
fi The Cyclops system for the inspection, evaluation and monitoring of
spot welds
› A Cyclops installation at work in a Ford factory