Innovation and safety in batteries.

AMETEK Surface Vision is developing new partnerships with key battery industry organisations to help accelerate innovation and promote sustainable, cutting-edge solutions and business opportunities in electric battery technology globally.

As a leading provider of surface inspection systems for battery manufacturing, AMETEK Surface Vision is well-placed to join forces with major influencers including UPCELL Alliance and the Volta Foundation.

Jacqueline Peintinger, Product Marketing Manager said: “Joining Volta Foundation and UPCELL marks an important step in strengthening our commitment to advancing innovation and collaboration within the battery sector. These partnerships will enable us to actively contribute to industry discussions, stay at the forefront of emerging trends, and engage with key stakeholders to drive meaningful progress.”

UPCELL Alliance is a key European initiative bringing together industry leaders, research institutions, and governments to advance battery technology. AMETEK Surface Vision will work with the Alliance to accelerate innovation and strengthen Europe's position in the global battery market.

AMETEK Surface Vision has also joined the Volta Foundation. This partnership allows the company to collaborate with other industry leaders to drive innovation in battery technology. As surface inspection solutions including AMETEK SmartView and SmartAdvisor play a crucial role in ensuring battery quality and safety, which will contribute to the efforts of the Volta Foundation.

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Locating battery defects.

Battery manufacturers are being helped by AMETEK Surface Vision to improve quality and productivity by detecting and identifying defects in the production process with its industry-leading inspection system. Defect detection is a major consideration in battery inspection, as defects lead to product quality and safety issues as well as reduced productivity.

An automated surface inspection system that delivers 100% inspection is vital to detect and identify all defects, and when supported by machine-learning and classification capabilities, it can also help find the root cause of repeating defects.

SmartView is the industry-leading surface inspection solution, trusted worldwide to detect, identify and visualize surface defects in real-time. Merging state-of-the-art software and hardware into an advanced surface inspection platform, SmartView provides total vision integration for high-speed defect detection, monitoring, and reporting. It delivers robust features, flexible operation, and proven, high-quality results.

SmartView’s high-speed inspection system delivers high-resolution image acquisition of defects including contamination, strips, relief material, cutaways, coating defects, insects, pinholes, folds, foreign particles and pollution. SmartView technology is quick, easy to install, and designed with a user-friendly interface.

Real-time notification technology allows operators to add control labelling systems to highlight defect positions which optimize yield management and increase throughput.

Volker Koelmel, Global Manager - Plastics, Nonwovens and Paper, said: “Many defects are one-off occurrences, but occasionally they may be caused by a flaw earlier in the process. In this instance, the process will continue to create defects until the root cause problem is identified and remedied.
“Our surface inspection systems deliver reliable, highly sensitive defect inspection, with streaming high-definition video that allows re-inspection. By analysing the root cause, surface inspection solutions can stop repeated defects, resulting in less waste and more profit, while making it possible for battery manufacturers to meet increasing demand.”

Using the inspection and monitoring solution provided by AMETEK Surface Vision, battery cell manufacturers are assured of adaptable defect detection that supports quality and reduces the need for manual intervention.

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Surface vision Product Marketing Manager.

Ametek Surface Vision has appointed Jacqueline Peintinger as Product Marketing Manager to drive customer engagement and product development.

Jacqueline Peintinger

In this new role Jacqueline’s primary responsibilities will be developing and implementing an international marketing strategy with a strong focus on global event management and digital marketing with lead generation initiatives.

Voice of Customer (VOC) is also key to this role, with active market research being undertaken through ongoing customer and partner site visits to understand the challenges they face. Jacqueline will take a proactive and strategic approach to develop initiatives to further meet these challenges.

Commenting on the role Jacqueline said: “With the experience I’ve previously gained in sales and marketing for leading international companies in the metals industry, I am excited about the opportunity to also dive into other industries and their needs that use our technology like batteries, paper and plastics. I am looking forward to working both internally and externally to support and further improve customer partnerships and our technologies to meet industry challenges.”

Jacqueline will be reporting to Breck Lewis, Director of Product Management, who said: “This is an important role for Ametek Surface Vision. We recognize that listening to our customers and addressing their challenges is key, and Jacqueline’s leadership in optimizing and executing Surface Vision's marketing strategy will be invaluable in supporting this.”

Ametek Surface Vision is the world leader in automated online surface inspection solutions for optimizing the monitoring and inspection of webs and surfaces, and process surveillance applications.

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Inspecting batteries production.

Ametek Surface Vision has developed its high-performance inspection systems to overcome the challenges in battery production processes to improve quality and reduce defects.

Volker Koelmel, Global Manager - Plastics, Paper and Nonwovens said: “Our systems have been developed using decades of expert applications knowledge and are highly customisable for many different applications. This means they are ideal for battery production, where the identification of defects is critical.”

As battery technology expands and grows to meet the demands of industries, particularly electric vehicles, Ametek Surface Vision’s surface inspection systems help by delivering accurate real-time surface inspection and monitoring for applications including lithium-ion battery cell electrodes, solid-state batteries, and fuel cell components.

During battery production, surface inspection technology is essential to rule out problems and defects, improving quality and safety and reducing customer claims. A highly sophisticated optical set-up, combined with a powerful detection algorithm and a multi-step classifier, helps to ensure that battery producers can distinguish non-quality-related optical effects from defects in battery production

Based on the SmartView platform, Ametek Surface Vision’s customizable, modular inspection system uses streaming high-definition video, advanced LED illumination, highly sensitive line scan cameras and process control equipment. It also utilises powerful algorithms for detection and classification for proven, high-quality results.

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Surface inspection.

Automated online surface inspection solutions are becoming increasingly vital to improving efficiency and product quality, streamlining operations, and reducing costs and waste in industrial processes. Using these types of automated systems adds significant value in many ways. AMETEK Surface Vision provides the industry-leading SmartView® and SmartAdvisor® product lines, used by many customers worldwide.

SmartView detects, identifies and visualizes surface defects in a range of processes. It combines state-of-the-art software and hardware into an advanced surface inspection platform, providing high-speed defect detection, monitoring, and reporting.

To complement SmartView, SmartAdvisor provides high-speed, multi-dimensional video monitoring and process analysis. Easy to use, the system uses synchronized cameras strategically placed in the process, helping to identify the root cause of defects.

Together these systems help industrial process manufacturers increase their efficiency, productivity and quality:

By identifying defects fast – and early in the process – cost savings are achieved through less waste, and machine efficiency and yield rates are maximized Productivity and reliability are increased through process improvements Operators are removed from the direct process, improving health and safety Quality claims can be reduced through 100% surface inspection

Marco Saitta, Sales Account Manager at AMETEK Surface Vision said: “Our surface inspection solutions can be installed quickly so that the benefits are realised almost immediately. This leads to significant quality and reliability improvements, cost-savings, reduced waste and improved customer confidence, which is priceless.”

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Nonwovens manufacturer saves on checking.

An automated system to check materials, improve quality, and reduce customer claims at Texbond Srl has been installed by AMETEK Surface Vision.

Based in Italy, Texbond is a manufacturer of spunlaid thermal-bonded nonwoven products for a wide-range of applications, including personal care, hygiene, medical, furniture and design, farming, building, and motor vehicles.

Initially, the company was relying on human inspection for quality assurance of its products; however, it wanted to move to a robust, easy-to-use, automated system to improve quality, speed, and process optimization.

The medical and hygiene market in particular is extremely demanding and insists on defect-free material due to the nature of its use. Other markets also have high quality standards and common defects. For example, holes and contamination can affect the visual properties of the material.

Texbond needed a robust system that delivered high-resolution inspection in real time, along with a modular approach that uses state-of-the-art technology. Reporting capabilities, expert service support, and availability were also key requirements.

Flexible and customizable, AMETEK Surface Vision’s SmartView^® system uses the most advanced inspection technologies and provides precise, real-time detection. Texbond installed two SmartView systems in the production process. One on Line 3 (colored materials) and the other on Line 4 (different weights of white nonwovens).

Each system uses four reflection transmission cameras positioned at the exit of the line and before the winder to act as a “gatekeeper,” detecting all relevant defects and contamination. The use of a white backing bar helped support contamination detection on Line 3, while SmartView’s LED lights ensured high performance when inspecting heavy material.

The systems are integrated with Texbond’s process control, for automatic start and stop of inspection, and store information for database analysis.

Spunlaid thermal-bonded nonwoven products

Enrico Chemello, Quality Manager at Texbond, said: “SmartView has really helped to optimize the quality of our products. Defects are detected and the material’s visual properties can be assessed in real time, allowing immediate intervention and optimization of the process, and the elimination of any process upsets. The result is an optimized production with reduced scrap.

“The SmartView system has met our expectations, proving its solid defect detection capabilities. The system became productive in a short time, providing images and defect information from day one.”

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Partnership to benefit coilwinding and flat-profile products.

A strategic partnership to provide customers with significant cost savings as well as improved quality and production has been announced by AMETEK Surface Vision and Sensory Analytics.

The partnership provides significant benefits to global coil coating, converting, and packaging leaders who are processing flat-profile products. The benefits include a combination of best-in-class solutions for in-process thickness measurement as well as surface detection and classification.

Both companies are fast-growing market leaders with a commitment to delivering actionable in-process measurements, enabling operators to make real-time data-driven improvements that further enhance productivity and product quality.

AMETEK Surface Vision delivers robust, flexible solutions for continuous production processes across multiple industries through its advanced SmartView® and SmartAdvisor® systems for monitoring and inspecting webs and surfaces.

Sensory Analytics is a global leader through its transformative ROI and EXR technologies for real-time coating thickness and film layer measurement, used to power its SpecMetrix in-line systems, off-line QA solutions, and flexible OEM units.

AMETEK Surface Vision and Sensory Analytics will jointly develop new offerings that will provide customers with higher levels of data aggregation for the products they produce to maintain compliance with end market requirements. This will allow them to better understand processing performance and identify optimization opportunities.

Mike Hevey, Division Vice President and Business Manager at AMETEK Surface Vision said: “Both companies operate in similar industries, with technologies placed up and down the same process lines. This partnership brings with it excellent synergies for our customers, as we can offer them unique integrated solutions.

“With our Global Service Team, combined with Sensory Analytics’ leading technology position in coat weight and thickness measurement gauging, customers will have access to greater levels of service as well as pioneering technologies,” Hevey added.

Greg Frisby, Global Industry Manager for SpecMetrix Systems at Sensory Analytics, added: “We both share a commitment to customer support, technical innovation, process control, and quality improvements that are unmatched by other industry offerings. Our exclusive technologies are non-contact, highly precise, and complementary, creating significant potential for new, combined product and process data offerings that support industrial digitalization.

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