The challenge
What needed solving
The moving strip emitted intense radiation. The customer needed usable surface images despite the heat, movement and distance from the camera.
The solution
How Qualitas solved it
Qualitas delivered a line-scan acquisition setup with high-intensity lighting, a frame grabber and an industrial computer. Captured images were transferred to the customer’s server.
Inside the hot-strip mill
The acquisition hardware
- An 8K line-scan camera, operated with binning, captured successive lines across the moving strip.
- High-intensity line lighting made surface detail visible despite radiation from the hot steel.
- The frame grabber and industrial computer assembled image lines and transferred the images to the customer’s server.
From a glowing strip to a surface image
The completed installation enabled customer image collection for downstream processing. Qualitas delivered the acquisition layer; defect detection and classification were outside our scope.
See the system at the mill
See the hot strip, lighting, camera arrangement and captured images.
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