Total Vu software

Increasing production efficiency leads directly to increased profits. That's why LaserLinc's PC-based measurement system—combining the TLAser400™ micrometer interface card and Total Vu™ software—is delivering such a quick return on investment for so many manufacturers.

Each plug-and-play TLAser400 card can connect your standard PC with up to four micrometers, and up to four interface cards can be installed in one PC-to handle as many as 16 micrometers per PC.

The best news, however, is that LaserLinc is ready with equally powerful and versatile Total Vu software to fully capitalize on all this data-gathering power and versatility.

The quickest way to appreciate the potential power and profitability of Total Vu software is to watch the PC screen as it continuously follows the performance of an entire production process in real-time, with user-friendly and easy-to-understand graphic displays.

For any quality-conscious, profit-minded observer, it's an exciting show. It also signals where your business and your industry is headed in terms of system-wide (as well as enterprise-wide) production monitoring, cost control, and information flow.

Because LaserLinc's Total Vu software runs on a standard PC, it offers several unique and very important benefits:

•	Lower costs;
•	Easy for line operators to understand and use;
•	It’s easy to network and assure the future compatibility of your system with others,
•	Interfaces any PC with up to 16 laser micrometers-in any combination of existing gauges you now own or new ones from LaserLinc;
•	Provides the full picture by monitoring not only product measurements but process variables, such as pressures, temperatures, loads, RPMs, length, and speeds.

Total Vu software begins by requesting your choice of set-up/start-up data such as line, operator, part number, material, or customer.

Your operator may also select a recipe from a comprehensive list. You are then ready to instruct Total Vu software to display charts, statistics, and measurement data from one or more micrometers. You can monitor other process variables such as pressures, temperatures, loads, RPMs, and speed; control the process; detect and report flaws; identify out-of-spec product; track process events; log data for post analysis, reporting, and archiving, and track virtually every aspect of production.

With Total Vu software, you can use your measure-ment data to reduce scrap, avoid product-quality problems, automate with closed-loop control, improve process speed and performance, enhance operator effectiveness, and provide complete and accurate process history.

You can also tailor your displays to serve your operators most effectively, by presenting only the information they need to perform their tasks. Using the standard PC's ability to support multiple monitors, you can put as much information on display for the operator as needed with minimum expense.

Total Vu software is fully Windows-compatible, and the familiar Windows graphical user interface is a big help for operators while they are learning to use the system. Even if your production line includes several different brands or types of micrometers, your operators can easily control them through a single unified interface.

	Real-time trend charts show recent process history and trends to help operators make necessary adjustments and see the resulting effects.
	Charts can be printed or saved to disk in web-ready JPEG format.
	Displays can be configured to show exactly what your operator needs to see.
	Column-gauge graphically displays real-time current product quality compared to tolerance standards.
	Part position is clearly displayed to monitor your production line setup.
	Large numerals can be read easily from a distance. Color-coded fields quickly indicate tolerance status.
	SPC statistics for every measurement including: Maximum, Minimum Range, Average, CpK and Standard Deviation.
	Main menu to access recipe setup, data capture and more.

Another major cost benefit of installing the TLAser400 card and Total Vu software is the opportunity to install LaserLinc micrometers on your production line.

Our line of micrometers covers a wide range of product diameters, from .035µm (.0014") to 120mm (4.7"), and includes very compact models and also the highest measurement rates available. Split transmitter/receiver models offer flexibility and precision for multi-strand applications, and the three-axis Triton series provides accurate ovality measurement regardless of product orientation.

With the addition of our new ultrasonic wall thickness measurement device, the UltraGauge+, you can measure wall thickness at up to eight positions with over 2000 measurements per second.

LaserLinc micrometers and ultrasonic devices are designed specifically to do one thing—provide precise real-time measurements of your product.

Closed-loop control is another important way your Total Vu system can optimize your production by automatically adjusting the process in response to real-time data on product dimensions and process parameters. Total Vu software's Control feature can automatically monitor the trend in your product and change the designated parameter—such as line speed, extruder RPM, vacuum level, or roll stand position-to maintain the desired product size.

You can also benefit by applying the Profit Maximizer™ feature to monitor your process statistically in real time, and intelligently change the product's target dimension to minimize material usage while ensuring that the product remains within customer specifications.

LaserLinc's Total Vu software quickly wins the confidence and praise of line operators, production and process engineers, and plant managers wherever it's on the job. Why wait?

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