Instrumar
St. John’s developer of in-line electromagnetic sensors and analytics software that monitor synthetic-fibre production lines in real time for quality defects and process faults.
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Company site: instrumar.comSt. John’s developer of in-line electromagnetic sensors and analytics software that monitor synthetic-fibre production lines in real time for quality defects and process faults.
Own about page states it formed in 1980 as a spinoff from Memorial University’s Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering, and describes itself as employee-owned. instrumar.com
The Instrumar Fiber System pairs a 7cm electromagnetic sensor mounted on production machinery with analytics software reporting data five times every second. instrumar.com
Monitors spin-finish variation, missing or gained filaments, slubs, node count, twist and denier variation on fibre from 20 to 6000 dtex. instrumar.com
States some of its sensors have been in operation for 20 years. A company-stated figure, with eight in-plant case studies published on its own site. instrumar.com
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