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Issue 44

• 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 44

• 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 43

• Internal Spray is not "all about time"
• Oven loggers for 2pc and 3pc canmaking
• New Hoverprobe
• World Class R&R

Issue 42

• 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 41

• 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 40

• 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

Issue 39

• 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 38

• 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 37

• 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 36

• 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 35

• 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 34

• Label Protection Price Breakthough
• Practical and Economic testing for Micro Leaks
• Dramatically reduce Weld Wire Breaks
• Are Variable Measurements Costing you Money

Issue 33

• Double End Detector for thicker gauge materials
• Checking coating usage at the coater
• Handling modified electrolytes
• Energy saving in the dryer oven

Issue 32

• Inside spray gun driver upgrades
• Formed can probe updates
• Detecting inside-out-cans
• End Gap control

Issue 31

• 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 30

• Label inspection
• Improving weld quality
• Better Can counting
• Smooth cupper speed control

Issue 29

• The rising cost of re-sprays
• End counting with high accuracy
• Aerosol tube coating thickness testing
• Pin oven logging

Issue 28

• In-machine product testing
• Sheet fed press protection
• Testing the tester
• Basecoat quality improvements
• High speed solenoid control for sheet brakes

Issue 27

• 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 26

• 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 25

• 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 24

• Guarding your reputation with the Automatic Enamel Rater
• Analogue speed control sensors
• End gap control techniques
• Side Seam oven profiling

Issue 23

• 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 22

• 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 21

• 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 20

• Six Sigma - The latest or Greatest
• Film Weight pitfalls
• Can stand maintenance
• The right sensor for the job
• UK Sales & Support Team
  

Issue 19

• 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 18

• 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 17

• Sensor selection - getting it right
• Double sheet detection
• Decorator tripping
• Potential savings for coating processes
• Calibrating coating thickness gauges

Issue 16

• 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 15

• 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 13

• 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 12

• 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 11

• 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