At AISTech 2023, Polytec presents the new ProSpeed® LSV-1100 Laser Surface Velocimeter. Updates to the sensor system bring it to the same technological level as its big brother, the ProSpeed LSV-2100. With enhanced connectivity and easy integration into process control systems, the family of ProSpeed Sensors is essential to increasing yield, improving throughput and reducing scrap.
The ProSpeed® LSV series of surface velocimeters provide highly accurate speed and length data for the control and optimization of processes requiring cut-to-length, length verification, footage count, differential speed measurement and more.
Polytec has now equipped the new ProSpeed® LSV-1100 with the same connectivity as the ProSpeed® LSV-2100. Both systems now have several optional interfaces that make integration into modern process control environments easy, for example via Ethernet-IP and Profinet. The wide range of interfaces and accessories also supports equipment manufacturers in integrating the ProSpeed into the most varied of environments anywhere in the world.
The measured values can now be shown on any display via a WLAN module in control stations and can be parameterized and maintained very easily via a web interface. Up to four users can access the system at the same time.
With the transfer of the high connectivity standard of the ProSpeed® LSV-2100 to the ProSpeed® LSV-1100, Polytec makes operation and maintenance easier, because all systems in a plant are at the same high technological level: Operation and maintenance are identical ... a clear advantage for users who operate devices of both series.
Robert Bodamer, the product manager at Polytec, sees clear advantages for his customers in the standardization of the functions: “Both systems now differ only in their application & functionality. The ProSpeed LSV-1100 meets requirements of general applications for length and speed measurements, while the ProSpeed LSV-2100 is available for those applications requiring the added functionality of detecting standstill (v=0), material direction or measurement from working distances greater than 1.5 meters.”
An example of process control with surface velocimeters is mass flow control (Automatic Gauge Control – AGC) on rolling mills. The speed measurement is a crucial input value there for the fast and precise control of the roll gap. This allows users to achieve the specified strip thickness very quickly after threading in the coil - and thus over a larger portion of the strip - than without control.
Click the following link for more information: https://www.polytec.com/us/velocimetry/products/length-and-speed-sensors
