AccuScan C-Frame For Narrow Products
The AccuScan C-frame utilizes a unique, patented design and construction,
eliminating the thermal instability inherent in other cantilevered C-frames.
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- Ideal for cross transfer installations and cross machine scanning
applications to 24" width.
- Open ended scanner frame maintains dimensional stability during
temperature fluctuations.
- Non contact, non intrusive, non nuclear measurement.
- Accurate, reliable, proven technology kept current since 1974.
Numerous systems in operation over 20 years.
- Hundreds of on-line installations in heavy industrial environments.
Millions of equipment on line hours in instrumentation and closed loop
control applications.
- Automatically self calibrating.
- Robust design and construction.
- Performance guaranteed.
Features of the AccuScan C-frame Thickness Profile System
- Thermoelectrically cooled lasers for long life and trouble free
operation.
- Computer calibrates laser measurements to NIST traceable standards.
- All traversing mechanism components are located overhead, out of
process residues. V rails and wheels are case hardened for long
life.
- Differential laser heads are protected from startup conditions and
residues by scanner retract signaled by the plant PLC.
- Industrial grade computers are used throughout the system.
There are no custom circuit boards in the computers and the boards used
are multi-sourced. Computers are provided with extra cooling fans.
- Operator interface may be located remotely, coupled to the system
scanners by optical fiber.
- The AccuScan System is a complete, turn key system, including
scanner frames, scanner drives and logic and industrial
packaging, and software, not just a kit of sensors and logic to
make them make numbers.
- Laser heads are a unique, patented design that provides inherent
linearity, not computer guesses at what the true measurement should
be. Lenses are precision glass instead of plastic and the mounts
are ½ " bolts. The laser heads are designed, developed and
- Manufactured by Automation Industries.
- All AccuScan scanning frame types are designed to eliminate measurement
error due to expansion and contraction of the frame materials.
Purchaser is provided with manufacturer and manufacturers’ part numbers
for out sourced components such as motors, motor controllers, computers,
etc.
- Antifungal, anti-humidity coating on system circuit boards.
- The AccuScan C-frame utilizes a unique, patented design and construction
that eliminates the thermal instability that is inherent in other cantilevered
C-frames. There are two versions available, one that provides
cross machine scanning with a stepper motor drive, the second is used
in cross machine transfer sections where the cross machine profile is
presented to the scanner by the motion of the material on the conveyor.
These systems incorporate a simple ball screw drive for retract and
calibrate purposes only.
Specifications
- System Supply Voltage: Computer grade supplies for system
electronics, 120 VAC, 60 Hz, single phase standard, others available
on special order. Draw is approximately 5A each @
- 120VAC for the Cross Machine Profile scanner electronics and the
Operator Interface. These should be supplied by a UPS. The
Cross Machine Profile scanner motor controller requires a separate 120
VAC supply, 20A circuit.
- Cross Machine traversing rate: Programmable, up to 10 inches/second
with programmable accelerate and decelerate ramps.
- Thermal Measurement Drift: Negligible over a range of 0 degrees
F to 130 degrees F ambient temperature.
- In Process Accuracy: + /- 0.0025" over a 2½" product thickness range
and supported by system acceptance proof of performance procedures.
Specified in this manner assures that the specified accuracy is realized
accuracy and encompasses the sensor heads, system electronics, scanning
frame and plant environment. Realized accuracy is the only specification
that
- Delivers results to the plant's bottom line.
- Also available for a 6½" product thickness range, accuracy over
the range is +/- 0.004".
- Profile Sensor Resolution: 0.001"
- Electronics Enclosures: NEMA 12
- Scanner Frame Materials: Steel structural tubing, fabricated steel,
with case hardened, precision V track.
- Coatings: Primed, followed by cover and texture coats of polyurethane
enamel.
