Sunday 11 January 2015

Futec’s Online Inspection At Labelexpo India 2014

At Labelexpo India 2014 one of the main speakers of the inspection system was Futec showing his vision inspection systems with charge coupled device (CCD) image sensors to provide continuous online inspection technology to inspect multiple substrates. Futec units sold web surface inspection units printed surface inspection, thickness profiles units and labels inspection systems.



L - R: Krishnakumar Srinivasan, director of business development, GES; Yoshihiro Hasebe, managing director general, Futec; Takahiro Miura, general manager of product strategy, Futec; and Riju Earaly, regional sales manager, GES with online inspection system Futec at Labelexpo India .

One of the world's leading inspection technology has applications Futec paper, non-woven fabrics, plastic sheets, sheet metal, all forms of substrates for printed material such as paper, cloth, canvas, flexible films and cardboard. The inspection is performed before printing, during printing in the press, in the winding, laminating and cutting and is different for material control and inspection of print quality. The solutions are quality control systems related online production networks for high performance and are widely used in Japan and most of Southeast Asia.

The first inspection stage is the default optical inspection system on each substrate is different for different materials. For the role of failures include oil contamination, watermarks and tear paper or marks. For metal sheets are dents, bumps and uneven polishing or scratches while for films is the fisheye, gels, foreign matter, lumps, extra material and even pinholes. The optical conditions vary by type of material and the application process.

The printed web inspection systems are intended to inspect the quality of printing on a wide range of printed materials such as films and laminated flexible monocartons, corrugated, cardboard packaging, gravure, flexo and paper packages. Moreover there is the X-ray inspection is that the thickness of the film, aluminum foil and paper that is printed and is used in packaging. "The Indian market is opening up to sophisticated inspection systems and we have several customers in India with positive Tetra Pak packaging and India," says Yoshihiro Hasebe, managing director general, Futec, and Southeast Asia. "We are planning to increase our presence in India and have GES Infotek in Mumbai to market our products."