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Best Thread Inspection System in the World!

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  • Capacitive and inductive sensors that are custom designed to meet your application
  • Over 21 years of providing innovated solutions to customers around the world
  • Capacitive sensors that can be designed to optimize the sensing fields to fit your needs
  • Capacitive sensors with laser beam accuracy and resolution
  • Advanced signature analysis algorithms based upon voice recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence algorithms that duplicate the way our brain learns
  • Graphical User Interfaces that quickly identify to the user the quality and/or defect
  • Easily modified software to meet the customer needs with SPC software packages and customer modifications
  • Complete turnkey solutions that readily bolt-on and interface with your PLC via three (3) handshake lines

Automation Innovation, Inc. Logo - sm Eddy Current versus Capacitive Sensor Technology

  • Eddy current calibration is influenced by target material properties (Capacitive sensors are NOT)
  • Eddy current typically output a nosier signal (Capacitive sensors are digitized at a 16-bit resolution)
  • Eddy current are susceptible to drift (Capacitive sensors are very stable and repeatable down to 1 micro-inch or 0.025 microns)
  • Eddy current calibration influenced by temperature of target material (Capacitive sensors are NOT influenced by temperature)
  • Eddy current calibration influenced by magnetic fields near sensor (Capacitive sensors are NOT)
  • Eddy current fields are wide and spread over several threads (Capacitive sensors fields are less the 0.008 inches or 0.2mm wide)
  • Eddy current fields have both side and frontal sensing lobes (Capacitive sensors fields have NO frontal lobes and can be designed for the application)
  • Eddy current cannot inspect a blind hole since the frontal lobe sees the bottom of the hole and not the threads
  • Capacitive sensors can be designed to measure the last thread a few thousandths from the bottom of a hole
  • Capacitive sensors can be designed to measure threads below the concial seat of a fuel or brake fitting
  • Eddy current fields have proven unreliable for many world companies (they have switched to Capacitive sensors as their standard inspection method)
  • Eddy current probes are delicate and damage easily (Capacitive sensors are made from solid tool steel or stainless steel and are industrial hardened)
  • Eddy current systems use simple level monitoring (Capacitive sensors use a signature of the entire thread to insure all defects are found)
  • Eddy current systems that try to use a signature approach only inspect a few degrees of the thread (Capacitive sensors inspection 360 degrees)
  • Eddy current fields are immune to environmental conditions (Capacitive sensors require special packaging for some environments)
  • Eddy current systems have to shift the control limits to ignore the effects of material changes (Capacitive sensors make sure the process in control)

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