The Instant Moisture Profiling System (IMPS-4400) is a non-contact RF moisture profiling system for board manufacturers to improve and optimize production processes and meet quality standards, reduce energy costs, increase productivity, and generate revenue. The IMPS-4400 utilizes radio frequency antennas to analyze board moisture characteristics below the surface, which is critical information to ensure consistent quality of finished boards.
True Moisture Profiling for Paper & Board Products
Benefits
- Total Moisture Control: IMPS-4400 delivers the most advanced level of direct moisture profiling with an accuracy range of ±0.05%, helping operators make data-driven decisions to manage board quality
- Powerful Visual Insights on Your Process: Proprietary software provides multiple graphical representations of moisture distribution for individual boards entering or exiting a kiln or dryer, helping mediate energy expenses
- Integrate Into Your Process Control System: Integrating the IMPS-4400 into your process provides advanced profiling features for moisture management across multiple decks
Features
- RF dielectric measurement provides a true moisture profile
- Non-contact multi-sensor profiling array
- Easy communication between profiler and an HMI system
- Proprietary software offering board product diagnostics
- Data-logging and trend time plot for statistical analysis
Applications
Penetrating RF Moisture Analysis
The IMPS-4400 is engineered specifically for board manufacturers in a wide range of industries.
- Construction/Building Materials: Drywall, hardboard, particle board, gypsum/fiber board, cement/fiber board
- Wood Manufacturing: Hardwood veneers, plywood veneers, dimensional lumber
- Paper Manufacturing: Cardboard, laminates, pulp bales, sheets
How It Works
The IMPS-4400 is mounted directly between rollers in a conveying board process line, with individual sensors mounted in an array spanning the width of the total board line. As a board passes through a conveyor – either heading to or leaving a dryer or kiln – the IMPS-4400 transmits RF signals from the array of sensors, which capture up to 30 moisture readings per second.
Measurement information is displayed in proprietary software and stored in an X-Y matrix based on the amount of sensing points in a configuration. The graphs, tables, and trend charts in the software illustrate the moisture profile view from different perspectives, providing true moisture measurement in real-time.
Optional I/O for Seamless Integration
While the IMPS-4400 can operate as a standalone instrument, KPM Analytics has made it easy to integrate IMPS-4400 into your process control system through the I/O option.
The I/O option offers real-time (not latched) analog signals providing 0-10VDC and 4-20mA outputs to your processor or PLC. Additionally, logic outputs to your processor or PLC provide alarm signals indicating user defined levels of moisture and board lengths. This helps board manufacturers simplify their quality control procedures by adding moisture profiling into their process.
RF Technology
IMPS-4400 utilizes RF technology, which is a penetrating measurement method that uses radio frequency dielectric measurements to analyze the full moisture composition of the product. It is an alternative moisture measurement to near infrared (NIR) technology, which measures the surface of a product without penetrating.
Read this article for an explanation of the key differences between NIR and RF.
Software
In board manufacturing operations, having quantifiable data on moisture content before and after the drying process is essential to product quality. The proprietary software that comes with the IMPS-4400 provides multiple graphical representations of moisture distribution for individual boards, yielding extraordinary discoveries to help producers save time, reduce waste, and lower energy costs.
Visualize your production process in a way no other moisture measurement management system can offer.
- View graphic profiles in multi-deck displays, cross-direction moisture profiles, bar graphs, and more
- Dryer exit visualization shows the moisture profile of every board. As shown below, the wetter region indicated in blue on the right-lower mid decks could result in inconsistent board quality.
- The third image below illustrates the cross-board moisture profile of every deck in a 12-deck triple-wide dryer. The spread between different traces is an indication of dryer imbalance.
In board manufacturing operations, having quantifiable data on moisture content before and after the drying process is essential to product quality. The proprietary software that comes with the IMPS-4400 provides multiple graphical representations of moisture distribution for individual boards, yielding extraordinary discoveries to help producers save time, reduce waste, and lower energy costs.
Visualize your production process in a way no other moisture measurement management system can offer.
- View graphic profiles in multi-deck displays, cross-direction moisture profiles, bar graphs, and more
- Dryer exit visualization shows the moisture profile of every board. As shown below, the wetter region indicated in blue on the right-lower mid decks could result in inconsistent board quality.
- The third image below illustrates the cross-board moisture profile of every deck in a 12-deck triple-wide dryer. The spread between different traces is an indication of dryer imbalance.
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