The WisTex project deals with developing an automatic grey goods
inspection system in order to discover defects in patterned and structured
as well as non-structured fabric in the production line.
Project partner Mahlo GmbH&Co KG has
established itself as the global market leader for high tech systems in the
textile and non-wovens industry for several decades. Ensuring the quality and
inspection of fabric is a major focus of the portfolio of Mahlo.
Mahlo's fabric inspection system WIS-12 currently only supports the defect
detection in non-structured fabric limiting its use to a small percentage of
today's industrial fabric.In practice, perching for these fabrics is still
done manually.
WisTex is aimed at closing those gaps. On the one hand we will develop and
test methods to provide a measure of quality for the inspection of structured
and patterend fabric. Thisprocess should be enhanced step by step in order
to increase the fault detection rate. On the other hand we will research and
develop relevant methods that later can be integrated into thesystem and
allow an easy "teach-in" process. For example, when changing cloth runs the
software should be able to learn and adopt to a new pattern after a short
warm-up phasewithout human interaction.
With a fabric width of up to 5 meters and speed of approximately
100 meters per minute this vast amount of data needs to be handled very
efficiently. All algorithms and methodstherefore shall be tested on their
applicability in real-time inspection on the machines and computation time
needs to be minized.
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