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  • Reduce Energy Consumption With Regular Oven Logging
  • Light Tester Expands To Fit Wide Range of Food Ends
  • "Better than comparable systems" - Why Tab Verifier Is Proving Popular
  • Choosing Enamel Rating Equipment - The Value Is In The Detail
  • Reducing Spoilage Relies on Accurate Product Counting
Issue 45
  • Controlling Cans by Mass for Better Product Flow
  • Combat Tinplate Scrap Costs with Sheet Alignment Inspection
  • Smooth End Gap Control Protects Product Quality
  • Sencon Invest in the Future
Issue 44
  • Internal Spray is not "all about time"
  • Oven loggers for 2pc and 3pc canmaking
  • New Hoverprobe
  • World Class R&R
Issue 43
  • Micro-Leak Testing … Now For Large Ends
  • Sencon End Gauge Adopted In US & Europe
  • Detecting Deco Defects … The Earlier The Better
  • New Visual Verifier For Inside Spray
  • Clipped Curls … Get At The Root Of The Problem
  • Hands Free 'Robo-Probe' To Improve Coatings Control
Issue 42
  • Touch Screen Fitted On Latest QA2600
  • Better Control On Stationary Compound Liners
  • Sencon's Virtual Engineer -
    Customer Service for the 21st Century
  • Light Testing For Food Ends
  • New Double Sheet Detector - The Best Yet
  • ISO Traceable Calibration - Why Is It Important?
  • Inside Story - some recent events at Sencon in the US and the UK
Issue 41
  • New Missing Tab system minimizes downtime
  • Control Coatings to Cut Costs
  • New Count Sensor for Slimline Cans
  • New Catalogs available for Beverage, Food and End lines

Issue 40

  • Stop Clipped Curls At Source
  • 3 Can Stands For Multiple Applications
  • Auto Enamel Raters- Upgrade Your Gaues to the Latest Spec
  • Get More Out of Old Light Testers with Longer Lasting Detector Heads
  • Look Out for Sencon at Cannex 2007
Issue 39
  • Keeping the cost of ownership down. ELTP and MLT
  • 13% coatings Reduction! Even better than expected
  • Automatic Enamel Rater - The next generation
  • How to speed up a canline without creating problems at the coater/decorator.
  • Sheet brake control

Issue 38
  • Reduce line spoilage with better end splitting
  • Take control of all your ovens
  • Caring for the environment: what's Sencon doing?
  • Coatings porosity testing: now for cut sheets and large ends
  • How to measure "film weight" in microns
Issue 37
  • Light Testing for Leakers; now for food ends
  • All-in-one Margin Inspection system
  • Enamel Rater upgrade
  • What's going on inside your ovens?
  • Sencon at Cannex 2006
Issue 36
  • End Progression: The Cost of Operator Influence
  • Why Are Sencon Canline Sensors So Good?
  • Find Uncoated Sheets At Line Speed
  • Bottle Can Stand for SI9100
Issue 35
  • Label Protection Price Breakthough
  • Practical and Economic testing for Micro Leaks
  • Dramatically reduce Weld Wire Breaks
  • Are Variable Measurements Costing you Money
Issue 34
  • Double End Detector for thicker gauge materials
  • Checking coating usage at the coater
  • Handling modified electrolytes
  • Energy saving in the dryer oven
Issue 33
  • Inside spray gun driver upgrades
  • Formed can probe updates
  • Detecting inside-out-cans
  • End Gap control
Issue 32
  • X-Seam, non-destructive double seam measurement
  • New measurement modules for the SC415 skew measurement system
  • New Multi-End Enamel Rater
  • Die protection sensors
  • Visible progress in beverage can coating control
Issue 31
  • Label inspection
  • Improving weld quality
  • Better Can counting
  • Smooth cupper speed control
Issue 30
  • The rising cost of re-sprays
  • End counting with high accuracy
  • Aerosol tube coating thickness testing
  • Pin oven logging
Issue 29
  • In-machine product testing
  • Sheet fed press protection
  • Testing the tester
  • Basecoat quality improvements
  • High speed solenoid control for sheet brakes
Issue 28
  • New Inverted Blank Detector
  • Mis-spray reduction for 2pc internal spray application
  • Quality in gives quality out -
    Can counting and managenment information systems
  • New Dome reversal gauge
Issue 27
  • End Micro Leak Testing
  • 2pc Oven logging, A single solution
  • Al new Gauge interface
  • Don't neglect your probe tips
  • Stencil variation problems -A potentail solution
  • Calibration Services
Issue 26
  • On-line coating weight measurement
  • World class internal coating quality assurance
  • Area Mass sensing for washer infeed control
  • Cup drop sensors
  • News & Views survey results
Issue 25
  • Guarding your reputation with the Automatic Enamel Rater
  • Analogue speed control sensors
  • End gap control techniques
  • Side Seam oven profiling
Issue 24
  • Testing Excellence - New improved Beverage Can stand
  • Helium or Air for Micro Leak Testeing
  • Short can "Smart Sensor"
  • Upgrade to Light Tester
  • Sheet Coating problems
Issue 23
  • Faster more consistent measurement (launch of the
    Coatings Thickness Gauge SI9600)
  • Pressure testing for micro leaks in lids
  • Taking cost out of coating application
  • Sencon Chicago based sales team.
  • New Rectangular End adaptor for the Enamel Rater
  • See us at AsiaCan conference
Issue 22
  • R&R Testing
  • New products launched at METPACK
  • Litho inspection system
  • Micro leak Air Tester
  • Coating Thickness Gauge
  • Semi-Automatic Enamel Rater
  • Plain Margin inspector for Flat Sheets
  • Short Can Sensors
Issue 21
  • Six Sigma - The latest or Greatest
  • Film Weight pitfalls
  • Can stand maintenance
  • The right sensor for the job
  • UK Sales & Support Team
Issue 20

  • SPC for free
  • Perfect bottoms
  • No adjustment - No problem
  • Sencon's long term support
  • Mixed aerosols vision system
  • A big thank you for 450 Light testers
Issue 19
  • 2001 Anniversary Year, Timeline
  • Bang goes the welder!
  • Compound liner gun control
  • New Enamel Rater
  • New languages for the web site
  • Micro Leak tester
  • Improve the life of you Hover probe
Issue 18
  • Sensor selection - getting it right
  • Double sheet detection
  • Decorator tripping
  • Potential savings for coating processes
  • Calibrating coating thickness gauges
Issue 17
  • Cost Cutters - Coating Reduction
  • Skew Measurment
  • Sensors for Mass Conveyors
  • Mixed Label Inspector Wins Approval
  • In Brief Bottling, Packaging & Canning Exhibition Cannex
  • 2000 SI9500 Digital Film Weight Gauge

Issue 16
  • New Digital Lacquer Spray Timer System
  • New Formed Can Probe offers enhanced R&R
  • Can Count Sensors for SCADA system development
  • Cost Cutters
  • ELTP wins votes
  • New-Look Website
  • Extensive Range means "One Stop" shopping for Coating
  • Line systems
Issue 15
  • New Coating Management systems for 2 & 3 piece lines
  • New solid-state light source cuts maintenance for End Light Tester systems
  • New End Light Tester system for Full Aperture Ends
  • Met pack Exhibition review
  • QA2600 Automatic Enamel Rater upgraded
  • Gauge R & R: How operators and systems can make the difference
Issue 13
  • Mixed Label Inspection System
  • Website overview
  • Energy savings made possible with oven temperature loggers
  • New Logger helps optimize UV lamp life
  • Process capability and its benefits to the can maker
Issue 12
  • Internal & External Coatings - measuring automatically
  • The End Leak Tester success story
  • Reducing spoilage downtime on the three-piece line
  • Discrimination - twenty years of progress
  • Closing the loop - Automated Process Control on the coating line
Issue 11
(March 1998)