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News Release from: Cognex UK | Subject: SmartView ICN web inspection system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 June 2001
Copper pickling line switches to machine
vision
Cognex has announced that Wieland-Werke AG, one of the world's largest copper strip manufacturers, has integrated Cognex's SmartView ICN web inspection system on a copper pickling line in Germany
Cognex has announced that Wieland-Werke AG, one of the world's largest copper strip manufacturers, has integrated Cognex's SmartView ICN web inspection system on their copper pickling line in Germany SmartView ICN is a state-of-the-art web inspection system that is used to automatically detect, identify, and display defects in metals and other materials as they are being produced
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based in Ulm, Germany, Wieland-Werke will use the Cognex machine vision system on its pickling line.
Pickling is a special treatment used to remove impurities from the surfaces of metals during the manufacturing process.
SmartView ICN, which was completely installed and running on Wieland-Werke's manufacturing line in two days, will be used to check the copper sheets for any particles of dirt remaining from the rolling process and acid bath.
Cognex has sold over 70 SmartView ICN systems since its release in February, 2000, making it the most successful product launch in the history of Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division. Request a free brochure from Cognex UK ...
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