Strip-release system based on surface quality: a new software tool informs strip producers and...

Since the emergence of automated surface inspection, operators have been driven by the idea of making process inspection data readily available for decision-making within the same (or subsequent) lines. Parsytec 5i, the control software introduced by Parsytec at last year's Surface Inspection Summit in Aachen, Germany, appears to be the first product capable of doing it.

It features the Surface Excel, a new surface-quality yield-management program that combines spreadsheet functions with a more sophisticated, high-volume real-time geometric database for widespread gene