Accuracy...Reliability...Savings...With a new LengthSpeed3000 measurement system from LaserLinc, you’ll get these and more. The LED sensors on the LengthSpeed3000 never touch the product—eliminating error due to slippage and wheel wear, product marking, or damage to the product’s surface that you might incur from a traditional contact encoder. Instead, the LengthSpeed3000 gives you better than 0.05 percent accuracy and the means to save money, by limiting waste caused by inaccurate measurement and downtime.

LengthSpeed3000 hardware incorporates an LED, a high-speed camera (up to 65,000 frames per second), and a digital signal processor (DSP). To compute speed and distance, the unit analyzes camera-shots as they are taken.

The LengthSpeed3000 can be a direct replacement for contact encoders. Plug it directly into a simple counter, PLC, motion or motor controller, or other device. But to harness the true power of non-contact speed and length measurement, you need to use Total Vu software, LaserLinc’s sophisticated, yet operator-friendly measurement, control, and data processing package.

Data. Taking charge of your process is all about data. What data to keep, what to throw away, and what data saves you money. Total Vu is data. Total Vu is data analysis. Reduce scrap, increase production efficiency, and improve quality by letting Total Vu interpret what our measurement devices “see.” Total Vu puts you in control with FFT analysis, in-process tolerance checking, trending, SPC, closed loop control, data logging, defect detection and other features.

LaserLinc provides the tools and data processing you need to identify problems early and streamline your process.

LengthSpeed3000 Benefits

• Automatic detection of standstill and direction of motion.
• FFT analysis (combined with accurate speed measurement) enables identification of process problems that affect product quality.
• Permanent calibration means no downtime, even if the material surface or color changes.
• Bi-directional measurement.
• No moving parts means trouble-free operation.
• No measurement wheel means no damage or marking of product, plus none of the wear or dirt build-up common on contact systems.
• LED light source rather than laser eliminates the need for protective measures that are necessary with class B laser equipment.
• Quadrature pulse output for easy connection to PLCs, counters, or other devices.

Industries/Applications

Measurement windows in Total Vu give you instant access to vital information.

Continuous production proc­esses: plastic, rubber, metals, paper, glass, and others. Also, non-wovens, converting, and building materials.

Measurement of a product’s fiber-to-jacket ratio (Excess Fiber Length).

Measurement of a product’s stretch.

Hot, elastic, or sensitive material that will be damaged by a contact device.

Speed synchronization, cut-to-length, speed ratio, inkjet print control, spool length.

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