Solid State Viscometer For Real-Time, On-line And In-line Process Monitoring

Viscosity control for product quality and process control is a crucial aspect of manufacturing operation in the paints and coatings industry. As suppliers focus on customer satisfaction and consistency of product, viscosity becomes more important to measure and directly influences cost efficiency and quality in most processes. In the coating industry, viscosity is a measurement that has challenged process engineers and quality control departments since it can be affected greatly by physical variables, namely temperature and shear rate. Additionally in OEM applications, there is a need for the solution provider to deliver a valued-added feature for constant monitoring of viscosity, for example in the dispense control of solvents. Viscosity management can result in significant savings of the coating consumable while at the same time minimize the downtime in the process.

Historically, costly and inflexible mechanical products have been used. Up until now there has been no viable "electronic way" to measure viscosity and processors have been forced to measure infrequently or utilize a wide range of methodologies with repeated cost/benefit trade-off. BiODE's (Westbrook, ME) ViSmart™ acoustic wave, resonance based electronic viscosity sensor and measurement systems changes all this and provides a solution oriented product to the coating industry.

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