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News Release from: Cognex UK | Subject: SmartView ICN web inspection system
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 July 2001
Neptco goes for high speed web
inspection
Tapes and composites manufacturer Neptco has integrated Cognex's SmartView ICN web inspection system at its manufacturing facility in Lenoir, North Carolina
Cognex has announced that Neptco, a leading manufacturer of tapes and composites used in the fibre optics, telecommunications, and electronics industries, has integrated Cognex's SmartView ICN web inspection system at its manufacturing facility in Lenoir, North Carolina The Cognex SmartView ICN system will be used on Neptco's manufacturing line to check for dirt particles, gels, voids, coating streaks, and wrinkles in the adhesive coating of cover tape
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cover tape is an anti-static strip used in the packaging of surface mount devices.
The cover tape seals the surface mount device into protective pockets on a substrate for delivery via tape and reel packaging.
"SmartView allows manufacturers like Neptco to quickly inspect defects of less than a millimeter in the most challenging applications and at full production speeds," said Markku Jaaskelainen, General Manager of Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division.
"This enables companies to enhance efficiency, improve product quality, and increase output." SmartView ICN is a state-of-the-art web inspection system that is used to automatically detect, identify, and display defects in plastics and other materials as they are being produced.
Cognex has sold over 80 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.
Neptco is the world's leading manufacturer of composite strength members used in fibre optic cables, outside plant products used by contractors to the telecommunications industry, and flexible products used by the CATV and related wire and cable industries.
The company also manufactures flexible materials for the semiconductor and electronics market.
Since its founding in 1953, Neptco has engineered materials for commercial, industrial, and military applications, including advanced polymeric coatings and laminates of films, foils, fibres, composites, papers and nonwovens. Request a free brochure from Cognex UK ...
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