Experience the ECS Difference

ECS is a software and hardware company with one goal in mind – to increase the realized capacity of your manufacturing process. 

Our camera based quality control systems help increase the speed of the process while decreasing waste (defects and wasted material during process disruptions) and delay (downtime).   Maintaining and increasing the realized capacity is not an option for today’s industries – it’s the key to survival and this task is not getting easier.

Why choose ECS?

Because these solutions become such a long-term and integral and critical aspect of best practices for our installed base – ECS understands we must become a partner in all aspects of the product lifecycle of these camera based solutions.  We must be focused at all times on not only on how our systems are developed and built – but equally as important is the quality of installation and support.  Our systems cannot afford to fail the operator and management when it’s needed most.  In other words – we help increase uptime of your process – so the uptime of the camera based quality control system should never the problem. 

The best equipment coupled with the best people.

REALIZED CAPACITY

From a solution standpoint – ECS provides a wide selection of quality control solutions under three main groups that can be installed in two ways

1.      On a single process
a.      Process Monitoring
b.      Event Capture
c.      Web Inspection

2.      On a group of processes - RIM

Any of the solutions can be executed in the field from large permanent systems to small rolling or handheld configurations. 

Process Monitoring

THE MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO ADD VISIBILITY INTO HARD-TO-SEE AND DANGEROUS AREAS OF YOUR PROCESS

• Uses Power over Ethernet IP (Internet Protocol) cameras

• Camera signal can be sent via mill network or dedicated ECS camera network

• High compression H264 video format to minimize burden on mill network

NIR LED

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEAR INFRARED (NIR) LIGHT TECHNOLOGY AND EMPOWER YOUR CAMERA TO SEE MORE WITH UNPRECEDENTED CLARITY

• Clarity through the toughest steamy environments. NIR’s longer wavelength allows the light energy to penetrate the water vapor, hit the sheet and reflect back to the camera sensor.

• See more without distractions. Reflected NIR energy from metal surfaces is less blinding to the camera sensor than reflected white light.

• Make more visible to the camera. Because NIR is monochromatic it strips the color element out of the reflected light energy from the image.

• Micro-pulsed NIR. The short on-time of the NIR LED creates exceptional stop action clarity even with the camera operating at ‘open’ shutter’

• Wet line tracking. NIR lighting supports image processing programs that determine the positioning of wet lines along several parallel zones on the scene

Edge Crack Inspection

SMART CAMERA SOLUTION WHERE ALL IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING IS DONE ONBOARD THE CAMERA

• No moving parts with camera-based, real-time edge tracking

• Web Based Operator Interface – any computer can access the data and host the playback experience

• Wi-Fi Capable to eliminate costly cable runs from camera to operator interface location

• Auto Suspend Image Processing logic to eliminate need for any connection to the sheet break system

• One-sided image acquisition (does not require a jaw design or any exposed sheet)

• Ideal for Tissue Installations where there is no exposed sheet

  • System can run against a foil