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INDUSTRIAL FINISHING: TESTING EQUIPMENT
" Another area where we work with our technologies is with
semi-conductors, where you have wafers that require a film
thickness measurement, " says Bogert. " Those wafers could be
worth tens of thousands of dollars, so that's not something you
want to scrap or need to rework. Getting those measurements
quickly back to the plating line is really important and can save
the company tons of money. "
Fischer also offers other configurations where they put the
XRF on a single axis drive for roll-to-roll processes. Bogert says,
" You can process that material and measure the deposition to
make sure the thickness is what it's supposed to be before rolling
that material back up. And we have some systems where we put
the x-ray spectrometer on a drive that will travel back and forth
over the roll as the material is moving so the customers can look
at the distribution of the coating that they're putting down from
edge-to-edge of that role. "
In another manufacturing scenario, Fischer has a customer
that wants to test incoming materials before running through the
process. If a customer is using precious metal additives in their
coatings, those are very costly to scrap, and by testing them at the
receiving doors they have a chance to reject it.
With today's communication technology, testing devices can
give feedback or transfer data in some manner, but there is still the
sampling effort that is involved. And if you have that metrology
testing/sampling integrated into production, companies will
get the speed factor. If your parts are large, that sampling can be
really difficult.
" You may need a robot to pick it up and place it in an area that
it can be tested if that technology isn't in-line in production, " says
Bogert. " And depending on how smart the automation system that
our customer is using, they may be able to feed that information
back into their control system and make adjustments based on
the metrology that we're feeding back to them. "
Historically measurement and quality control testing has been
done in a lab or offline. " But now with all of the robots getting
better and better, and with software getting more sophisticated,
the move toward Industry 4.0 is becoming real, " says Bogert.
" There is a lot of investment by big corporations to control
factories remotely, and all of the information is being fed back to
corporate. In terms of our technology and product lines, we see it
as the growth area for the future. "
With today's communication technology, testing
devices can give feedback or transfer data in
some manner, but there is still the sampling
effort that is involved. And if you have that
metrology testing/sampling integrated into
production, companies will get the speed factor.
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