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Automation Industries Corporations experience with rubber dates back to the mid 1980's. Through our association with Oliver Rubber Co. we have become quite familiar with several aspects of the tire manufacturing and, re-treading industries. Oliver Rubber Co. came to us looking for a way to perform non-destructive testing on over the road tire carcasses prior to re-treading. We developed the 510 ultrasonic transducer and the rest is history. The TUFF-SCAN unit we developed now inspects several thousand truck tires every day for hidden problems caused by the ravages of over the road use. The unit is another in the long list of pioneering technologies we have brought to industry. 
Click on Photo to Enlarge In 2000 we at AIC made the decision to broaden our customer base. For years we made a living in the building products industry. At this time our equipment measures over 15,000,000 panels per day. However, we came to realize that there was a whole new world out there for us. Our technology is second to none when it comes to measurement and, finding flaws. |
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Click on Photo to Enlarge Pictured above is the ACCU-SCAN Cross Machine Profiler. THIS IS NOT A WELDED C-FRAME! Every Automation Industries Corporation System is backed by a PROOF of PERFORMANCE guarantee. This open ended frame is so stable in operation that our series 231 laser heads are guaranteed to not exceed +/- 0.0025" on-line without recalibration for an eight hour period. As excellent a product as the ACCU-SCAN frame is, its purpose is to be a stable platform for our laser heads. Unlike our competitors we design and build our own laser heads in our Montrose Colorado facility. Their only purpose is to take accurate measurements. Our laser heads are optically linear. As such they do not need any software or lookup tables to take accurate measurements. All of our laser heads are completely digital at the source. Accuracy is unaffected by large changes in ambient light or by ambient light falling on the product. ACCU-SCAN digital signal processing results in a measurement that is insensitive to color changes over a range from bright white to dull black. Most measurement applications involving rubber require an accurate online volume measurement, not a mass or density profile. Our digital laser heads can update at a rate of 880 samples/second; or, an update ever 0.011" of cross machine travel at 10"/second. This rapid update rate results in a very high data density, allowing accurate reconstruction of the products' cross sectional profile. Our perception series software provides this data real time with TCP/IP connectivity and, our data historian output provides the data for future analysis. If this all sounds to good to be true, its not. Automation Industries Corporation (see our link for details) maintains a site simulator in our facilities. This system has a small conveyor and is equipped with several plug in modules that represent our systems. The site simulator is available for companies like yours to find out for themselves that we can do what we say we can do! To learn more about our Site Simulator, click here
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