To avoid contamination or gain feedback & identify progress in refining. For consistency in production to ensuring materials sourced meet your standards, and of course final inspection..... all are reasons to monitor color (or is it colour?). Perceptions and interpretations of colour are highly subjective, so the solution is a measuring instrument that explicitly identifies a colour, that is, an instrument that differentiates a colour from all others and assigns it a numeric value.

The colour of many products acts as an important indicator of product quality and processing performance. Specifically colour is used in;

Quality Control
To check on contamination or degradation As an indication of suitability for a particular purpose As a guide to the condition of used product
Refining
As a measure of progress in refining and processing Feedback for process control and optimisation Identification of product grade
Materials Sourcing
An immediate guide to supply continuity
Inspection of Incoming materials
Assurance that materials meet colour specifications
Production Control
A check for consistency within and across batches
Inspection of final products
Conformance to predetermined colour tolerances Compliance with customer specifications

Our perceptions and interpretations of colour are highly subjective. Eye fatigue, age and other physiological factors can influence your colour perception. But even without such physical considerations, each observer interprets colour based on personal references. Each person also verbally defines an object's colour differently. As a result, objectively communicating a particular colour to comeone without some type of standard is difficult. There also must be a way to compare one colour to the next with accuracy. The solution is a measuring instrument that explicitly identifis a colour. That is, an instrument that differentiates a colour from all others and assigns it a numeric value.

Today, the most commonly used instruments for measuring colour are spectrophotometers. Spectro technology measures reflected or transmitted light at many points on the visual spectrum, which results in a curve. Since the curve of each colour is as unique as a signature or fingerprint, the curve is an excellent tool for identifying, specifying and matching colour.

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