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Unilever Solves Packaging Issues Using 20/20 Hindsight High-Speed Video

From Monitoring Technology Corporation
 

 
20/20 Hindsight takes high-speed digital video cameras to the next level and beyond. The result is a troubleshooting tool that provides over 48 hours of continuous video allowing users to look back in time to see exactly what caused packaging jams or process upsets. By seeing the root cause, users can quickly make the proper adjustments and improve efficiency. With shutter speeds up to 1/100,000th of a second, 20/20 Hindsight instantly captures the action and allows slow motion playback with frame-by-frame analysis. 20/20 Hindsight can be used anywhere in the plant to eliminate packaging jams & upsets while simultaneously improving efficiency. Offering incredible ease-of-use with auto-focus remote-control cameras, optional PLC interfaces, onboard CD-burners, and high-resolution color video, anyone in the plant can learn 20/20 Hindsight in 10 minutes or less. Typical customer feedback has shown the technology pays for itself in less than 90 days! Unilever's assessment of 20/20 Hindsight: "The ability to utilize the scanback viewer frame-by-frame has been the largest benefit from this investment. We've been able to move frame-by-frame through high speed bar soap packaging processes to identify the root cause of equipment stops that we never would have seen by our naked eye."

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