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Stationary scanning is clearly more precise
Just recently, Mahlo's know-how and expertise were confirmed yet again.

A customer had some distorted Jacquard fabric tested in Mahlo's technological department. The material was scanned and straightened on the test range by an Orthomat RVMC-12.

The customer then took the same piece of fabric to a rival concern in order to have it tested in just the same way on a straightener with a traversing scanner.

Both tests were recorded and subsequently evaluated by the customer himself.





The outcome left no one in doubt. In the customer's own words: "Mahlo's stationary scanning system is clearly the more precise one". This substantiated once again our promotional literature and tests. A single traversing scanner cannot compete with Mahlo's stationary system.





As illustrated above, each scanner of Mahlo's detection system (pictured at the right) supplies a fresh measured value at intervals of 140 ms. Since the 4, 6 or 8 scanners measure simultaneously, the associated microprocessor is able to compute a representative image of the entire cross-web distortion. And this at 7x per second.

A traversing system has to make do with considerably fewer measured values. To enable it to compute the entire cross-web distortion, the scanner has to run from one edge of the fabric to the other, an action that takes up a certain amount of time. Consequently, on principle alone, the result is less precise. If, during that time, the distortion varies as well - as sometimes happens following a seam - this system would compute an entirely false signal that would further distort the fabric rather than straighten it.

In order to compete with Mahlo's scanning system, a traversing scanner would have to run to and fro across for instance a 3.2 metre fabric 7x per second. Apart from the fact that this would probably be impossible to achieve mechanically, detection at such a speed would indeed be out of the question.
 
Hybrid Scanning®
The new, innovative Hybrid Scanning® with revolutionary double-sided scanners is a detection system with the widest dynamic range on the market.

Highlight of the hybrid scanning® system is fully automatic fabric recognition along with recipe change by SOS-technology (Self Optimizing System)

  • Revolutionary double-side-scanner
  • Senses automatically a change of fabric
  • Selects recipes automatically
  • Scans face and back
  • Detects patterns
  • Built-in pick counter
  • Widest scanning spectrum on the market at present
  • An innovative solution helps dispense with the fabric-related adjustments required by low-cost systems
  • A hybrid system can be retrofitted without difficulty to all generation-12 Orthomats
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Single-sided measurement with the GRAVIMAT FMX
The highly original FMX gauge works on the principle of X-ray back-scatter to measure weight per unit area, and should be seen as complementary to the FMI systems. The single-sided sensor helps reduce considerably the size of traverse assemblies. A further advantage is that the radiation can be switched off, thereby easing in particular the task of dealing with safety regulations and licensing procedures. With a range of 50 – 20.000g/m² , it covers a broad spectrum of potential applications and, compared to measurement by transmitted X-rays, is far less sensitive to the composition of the material being monitored. In addition to the textile finishing sector, coating processes with a wide variety of materials, laminating and nonwoven sectors, there are numerous applications primarily in the non-textile industries on foil, paper, etc..
 
FAMACONT PMC
The new PMC sensor for monitoring the density of picks or courses of the most complex structures, and the smart "feed forward" control strategy in conjunction with a spezial type of web guiding system for delecate materials, have convinced numerous top-ranking Chinese costomers of the system’s superiority and induced them to have the PMC retrofitted to their stenters.

The system is used amongst other things for materials with a high elastane content, either as a standalone unit or P-module in conjunction with an Orhopac RVMC or Optipac VMC, eg. for control of dwell-time. Its cost-effectiveness lies quality and maintain precisely a target weight per unit area, with a corresponding effect on returns.

 
WEBSCAN WIS
With the new Grey Goods Inspection System WIS, Mahlo has yet again set the standard for a user-friendly fabric monitor with a far more attractive cost-performance ratio than systems on the market up to now. Product faults are visualized and the evaluator’s parameters set up on a standardized 15” TFT colour monitor. Camera modules, light module and housing are conspicuously compact assemblies and thus work particularly well conjunction with the long-standingly successful Colorscan CIS Colour Inspection System.
 
THERMOSCAN OMF
A “snappy” pyrometer in a compact traverse frame for easy installation close to the outlet of a dryer.

With an Optipac VMC as a platform, it can be combined with measurement of exhaust humidity to form a low-cost “energy-saving unit” which, at the same time, helps promote maximum productivity and a consistently uniform finished quality.