Extrusion International USA 4-2019

42 Extrusion International 4/2019 MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTATION Measurement and control instrumentation made by Kündig Control Systems (KCS) – a member of Hch. Kündig & Cie. AG Group since 1972 – is used continuously around the world to guarantee best possible film quality KCS is striving to maintain this target achievement despite stricter qual- ity demands and annual increases in extrusion volumes. To do so, KCS is constantly improving measurement accuracy of existing sensors and is making use of newly available tech- nologies to develop new sensor types and measuring methods. At the last K Fair, the company pre- sented its new K-500 capacitive thick- ness sensor for online thickness mea- surement on blown film lines. The K-500 has an extremely low-wear and gap-free surface based on a pat- ent-protected sintered ceramic cover through which the film is measured. Over the past three years, this type of sensor has become the standard gauge in the global marketplace for contact, high-precision thickness measurement. Since the beginning of 2018, KCS has been selling its third-generation version of the KNC-600 Linear Scan- ner. One of the uses of this travel- ling, non-contact, capacitive thick- ness gauge is for inline longitudinal stretching (inline MDO) on blown film lines. KCS will, of course, also be present- ing its latest sensor development at this year’s K Fair. Until then, howev- er, the company is only revealing the advertising slogan – “Lowering the Barriers.” This year, in keeping with tradition, an offline thickness gauge for pro- cess optimisation and quality control will again be on demonstration at the KCS booth. Visitors to the booth can bring their own film samples for measurement using the Filmtest 3G. “Committed to film quality” also means that KCS offers its product users the best possible customer ser- vice. Since 2015, the internet plat- form GaugeCloud® has been online and is still being steadily expanded to this day. It gives customers access to literature, technical drawings, lists of available spare parts and much more information about their KCS products regardless of our business hours. Customers can, moreover, engage with three chat groups – Committed to Film Quality Filmtest 3G Spares/Repair, Support and Retrofit – to communicate specifically with the relevant team of specialists. KCS technicians can use remote access to troubleshoot any problems that arise and can upload new software ver- sions via the Internet . In the very lat- est products, this process even works for modules based on microproces- sors. The KCS team is looking forward to welcoming long-standing and po- tential new customers to its booth at K 2019, to presenting its pioneer- ing new products, and to showing the options for upgrading older KCS products. HCH. KÜNDIG& CIE. AG Joweid Zentrum11, 8630 Rüti ZH, Switzerland www.gauge.ch K 2019: Hall 10, Booth C81 KNC-600 Linear Scanner 3G