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With 50 years of company history and experience,

Cugher is well known in the flat glass sector for

its screen printing equipment. And with the

continuous move towards Industry 4.0, having

machinery that can not only communicate, but

also automate and even anticipate production

needs, is a real ‘plus’!

he continuous reduc- by its devices – as well as
tion of cycle times to monitor and adjust the
T and the improve- process using optical sys-
ments of finished product tems designed for auto-
quality imposes the inten- matic screen centring and
sification of automation of automatic control of bro-
both production monitor- ken screens.
ing systems and quality The high potential of cus-
control. Automation and tomization and constant
constant production moni- objectivity in evaluation
toring are the main fea- make artificial vision sys-
tures of Industry 4.0, and, tems the right solution to
when applied to produc- have 100 per cent auto-
tion cycles, artificial vision mated production control.
systems allow to monitor
and automatically set some AUTOMATIC GLASS
production parameters. QUALITY INSPECTION
Cugher Glass, has, for over VISION SYSTEM
50 years, been a reference The quality inspection vi-
in the market of flat glass sion system, typically in-
for its cutting-edge solu- stalled downstream from
tions dedicated to screen the washing machine, is
printing. Thanks to the able to scan the whole glass
partnership with Acelabs, and detect any defects pre-
a company that designs sent, such as scratches,
and manufactures artifi- breakages, air bubbles,
cial automatic vision sys- chips, contaminations, wa-
tems for quality control, ter drops, wet edges.
Cugher Glass offers its The system inspects raw
customers the opportunity glass or cut and ground
to control the glass in the glass through specifically
best way possible and print designed optical technol-
VISION SYSTEMS USE CUSTOMIZED quality in each and every ogy that uses an alternate
ILLUMINATORS FOR A BETTER
DETECTION OF DEFECTS detail – thanks to the very light source pattern which
high resolution reached can detect any type of glass

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