LineScanner
High-precision scanning technology for quality inspection of glass
The LineScanner is the solution for all quality inspections of transparent flat glass products such as single sheets, insulating glass, automotive glass, processed glass, polycarbonate or film. LineScanner inspects your products with extreme precision for all defects in quality and dimension. Its flexibility as well as its simple operation and installation allow it to be put into operation quickly and easily with minimum space requirements.
Especially in the glass industry, it’s increasingly important, to meet the high demands of customers and partners. Since years Softsolution deals with the complex issue of checking the quality assessment of flat glass. Therefore we have developed a scanner which will revolutionize also your business!
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Developed in Waidhofen/Ybbs, Softsolution produces unique LineScanners at the highest technical level. Many years of expertise and experience in the glass industry and with over 750 installations worldwide, Softsolution guarantees for excellent glass defect inspection systems on the market. Our LineScanner helps to deliver consistent quality to your customers and thus reduce the complaint ratios.
DEFECT ASSIGNMENT WITH AI
Artificial intelligence improves traditional automated methods, including error categorization in the LineScanner software. Our system lea s from errors and continuously improves the evaluation. False quality rejects are reduced.
In practice, operators on the line sometimes judge a software decision differently. The software adopts this change and takes it into account in future evaluations. The LineScanner lea s from operator feedback and continuously adapts its categorization behavior.
Invest in the Future
Manual glass quality assessment is a thing of the past!
The unique parallel light technology enables the LineScanner to be operated with the same setup to inspect single sheets as well as finished insulation elements both horizontally and vertically. An automatic glass defect inspection system that excels with maximum flexibility and extreme ease of use.
The LineScanner inspects flat glass products for optical defects like scratches, inclusions, edge chips, screen printing, bars as well as dimensional defects with regard to overall dimensions, drill hole diameter and position. Glass thickness, the coating side and element structure can be quickly and easily examined. Thanks to the use of specially developed glass encoders, the position and size of defects can be optimally displayed.
Technological advantages
- Resolutions of up to 200dpi and 16bit technology enabling a highly accurate scan image of the inspected object
- An inspectation with 90° of all areas of the respective object leads to stable and repeatable results
- The proven high-speed and high-resolution technology is based on scanning modules and an optimized parallel light illumination with LED.
AUTOMATed Glass Quality Inspection with the LineScanner All-in-One System
Surface and edge quality
Quality control at the highest level
The glass quality and edge inspection recognises a variety of visible defects. These range from scratches and inclusions to coating defects and edge defects (e.g. chips). Each recorded defect is categorised and evaluated with user-defined quality settings. Ease of sensitivity adjustment is critical for such a quality inspection instrument. The LineScanner offers the optimum solution in this respect.
Dimension Control
Experience the new quality of scanning technology
The requirements for precise size control are constantly increasing and are particularly important for a material such as glass. The LineScanner checks dimensional tolerances inline during the production process – without affecting the cycle time. Based on the outer contours, inner contours and edge cut-outs, the dimensional inspection also checks drill holes for parameters such as position and diameter. The telecentric image capture of the LineScanner makes precise measurement possible in the first place and is a basic physical requirement.
Special quality tests
A product with a wide range of applications
The LineScanner does not stop at challenges that are unique. Customer requirements lead this product to new possibilities. Specially developed for the automotive industry, the quality inspection of logos is now standard.
- Check for correct logo
- Logo position and rotation
- Missing parts within a logo
- Print thickness
- Detail errors in graphics
- Screen printing errors
- Correct screen printing position
- Glass thickness
- Element structure of insulating glass units
Tempering Quality
New: Testing of anisotropy / isotropy and edge membrane tension
Complete documentation of the glass quality is essential. Uncontrolled operation of the tempering system means varying qualities in the tempering process. The LineScanner provides this feedback by displaying real-time data to the operators of the tempering furnace. Checking for anisotropies in combination with the thermal image and determining the edge membrane tension of each manufactured disc makes the LineScanner unique.
The LineScanner on the tempering furnace checks the following parameters for each glass in a single scanning process with minimum space requirements:
- Isotropy/anisotropy value [%]
- Edge membrane tension [MPa] [MPa]
- Glass quality (scratches, inclusions, soiling, coating defects, etc.)
- Edge quality control (moulding)
- Glass dimension (drill hole positions, diameter, corner cut-outs, edge cut-outs, etc.)
- Screen printing quality (pinholes, screen printing position)
- Logo position & quality (picture in picture comparison)
- Data matrix interpretation
Management console
The brand new LineScanner Management Console provides processors with an online overview of the current status of all scanners in production and thus integrates the scanners into the extensive automation and workflow control. This software tool records the quality and quantity of slices produced and scanned per line and provides a quick overview of all scanners in operation.
The LineScanner Management Console thus provides the user with the most important data (status of the system, service requirements – also predictive – as well as current production figures with corresponding quality results) in real time. Seamless documentation of glass quality is essential and, thanks to lot and Industry 4.0, will be even easier in the future.
We have added a new function that allows you to define alarms/notifications. If the production quantity or quality exceeds limit values, employees are automatically notified immediately.
Archive database
Saving and analysing data made easy. Thanks to the archive, scanned glasses can be saved and archived quickly and easily in a MySQL database. All work processes, quality settings and every single detail of a glass are documented and archived. In addition, all the necessary data is available for later analysis.
The LineScanner archive software is an independent application for searching for specific glasses in the database (by customer, barcode, order number, item number, etc.) and subsequently visualising them.
Linescanner Features
16 bit Technology
LineScanners from Softsolution have been equipped with 16-bit technology as standard since the beginning of 2016. This innovative technology makes it possible to use considerably more grey shades (65536 instead of 256) than before. It allows defects to be detected even more easily, in particular in dark glass (from 15% light transmission), meaning that it is no longer necessary to define different assessment criteria for different levels of glass transparency. It is not just the installation of the LineScanner that has been made significantly easier for the operator, but also maintenance – quality degradation as a result of dust in the working environment is a thing of the past.
Sensitivity setting
Different types of glass have different quality requirements. Taking this as a starting point, the LineScanner has been equipped with a new technical function – the sensitivity setting. Here, slide controls are used to store individual quality settings that are then drawn on as a new quality attribute. The new function makes it very easy to specify which defects are to be made visible to the operator with the help of the LineScanner and which are not. This revolutionary new development now makes the LineScanner as easy to operate as a smartphone.
Overall bending
This technology can initially only be installed for vertical production lines. Overall bending is checked in this case at a specific, configurable height of the glass. This function from Softsolution sets completely new standards as curved glass can cause considerable problems in a fully automated insulation glass production line (for example, cullets in the press, faulty sensor information, loss of gas filling level through loosening of the glass element at places along the frame, etc.). A sensor measures the distance between the individual sheet of glass and the sensor itself at intervals of 10-20 mm in the direction of transport. The maximum measurement tolerance is +/- 0.4 mm. Read more: BowScanner
Exact distance measurement
Available as an option to the LineScanner, the EDM system is able to give you exact dimension information of your piece of glass. Accuracy +/- 0,25 mm independent of the glass length. No other system within the glass industry – without any high accurate and very expensive transportation solution – allows to check the dimensions of a glass with such an accuracy. Something you can only find for the LineScanner powered by SOFTSOLUTION.
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