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Optical Fibers Weave Illumination for Web Inspection

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Daniel C. McCarthy

Datacube Inc. designed its Black Widow web inspection system to detect, measure and classify defects in rolled products ranging from aluminum to paper to plastic film. Its ability to stitch and process data from the edges and overlaps of adjacent cameras and sensors enables it to capture defects in extremely wide webs. The system's accuracy relies on the company's pipelined image processing technology, supported by illumination from a fiber optic line array produced by StockerYale Inc. in Salem, N.H. The arrays have been part of the system since its commercialization in 1996. They were...Read full article

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