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PLV Systems

PLV Scanner for Plastic Profiles

PLV Scanner for Plastic Profiles

The PLV system is a scanner-based offline inspection solution designed for plastic extrusions. It captures precise visual and variable data on the production floor using preprogrammed toolsets that guide part alignment for visual evaluations and enable automated or semi-automated measurements through advanced pattern matching techniques.

Inspection data is centrally stored, allowing seamless on-demand access, troubleshooting, auditing, and sharing across teams from any location within the organization.

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Who is the PLV Scanner for?

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For extruders of plastic profiles

Achieve superior shape conformity in your extruded profiles prior to shipment—ensuring consistent performance and elevated customer satisfaction.

For window & door manufacturers

Validate shape quality before profiles enter production—minimizing downtime, while equipping suppliers with actionable reports to streamline collaboration and accelerate issue resolution.

Level up quality control of your plastic profiles with audit-ready digital inspections

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Digitization

Provide on-demand access to historical records, eliminate physical sample storage, and ensure consistent, repeatable inspections across lines, shifts and sites.

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Traceability

Link timestamped measurements and visual inspections to operators, enabling faster root-cause analysis, clear accountability, and defensible quality records.

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Distributability

Seamlessly share inspection records across teams to boost collaboration, and deliver standardized reports to customers for clear, consistent, quality communication.

Specialized features designed to inspect shape quality of plastic profiles

Inspection scanners

Digitize profile cross-sections and use pre-trained toolsets to guide visual checks and automate variable data capture of critical features—ensuring quality control during production and part development.

Toolset design stations

Quality engineers create digital toolsets that provide the blueprints for inspection scanners to correctly measure critical angles, lengths, and features based on different alignments (datums).

Centralized repository

All visual and measurement inspection records are digitally captured and stored in centralized repositories, which are accessible from any inspection scanner, toolset design station, or PLV Viewer.

PLV Viewers

Enable on-demand access to inspection records across your organization—streamlining collaboration, accelerating issue resolution, and keeping teams aligned.

Multi-datum CAD overlay analysis

Compare scanned samples against CAD references using multiple alignments, each tailored to inspect different sets of critical features. Visual inspections, operator comments and mark-ups are saved to a central repository for easy access.

Visual time-series analysis

Visual time series analysis lets operators track how profile shapes evolve over time by comparing multiple samples—revealing trends, shifts, or anomalies in production.

Automatic coarse alignment

Coarse alignment speeds up visual inspections by automatically aligning scanned samples to CAD references, regardless of sample's orientation during the scanning process.

Multi-datum length and angle measurements

Toolsets guide the inspection software to capture variable data like lengths and angles along predefined dimensions and alignments, ensuring accurate cross-sectional measurements of rubber profiles

Semi and fully automated measurement capture

Advanced pattern-matching algorithms detect edges and tips with precision, enabling semi- or fully-automated measurements of critical features.

Flag out-of-tolerance measurements

Out-of-tolerance measurements are automatically flagged during inspection, helping operators quickly identify deviations from spec and take corrective action

On-demand access to visual and empirical inspection records

All inspection records, both visual and variable data, are securely stored in a local or central repository, accessible to authorized team members.

Traceable inspection details

Inspection records are timestamped and linked to operators and production details, creating a traceable history that supports quality audits and reviews.

Unlimited PLV Viewers

PLV Viewers offer unlimited access to inspection records across your organization, enabling teams to collaborate seamlessly, share insights, and more quickly align on troubleshooting decisions.

Configurable quality reports

Configurable PDF reports can be tailored for internal stakeholders or customers, presenting visual and empirical inspection data in standardized, easy-to-consume formats.

Directly connect to excel and SPC software

Our inspection databases can be directly opened in Excel and common SPC software for further analysis.

JSON data export

Inspection data can be exported in JSON format to integrate with corporate databases and other 3rd party software solutions.

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Toolsets

Toolsets serve as the blueprints, guiding our inspection systems to correctly align and help automate the capture of critical measurements from different datums for challenging plastic profile cross sections.

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