Always ready

The mot­tle meter is oper­ated with a recharge­able bat­tery pack (Li-Ion). The dock­ing sta­tion auto­mat­i­cally charges the bat­tery pack and trans­fers the mea­sured data to the PC.

Objec­tive and reli­able val­ues for
QC and trou­ble shoot­ing

• Small to large mot­tles are mea­sured under three
  observ­ing angles
• Scan length can be varied from 10 to 100 cm
• Objec­tive mea­sure­ment results inde­pen­dent of
  color and cur­va­ture

Ideal tool for the pro­duc­tion line

• Small and light weight - easy to han­dle
• For flat and curved areas, radius > 50 cm
• Easy, menu guided oper­a­tion via scroll wheel 
  and large, mul­ti­lin­gual dis­play
• Full statis­tics with abil­ity to save in selectable mem­ories
• Large mem­ory for 1000 read­ings
• USB port for data trans­fer to PC
• smart-chart soft­ware:
  - Organizer files for sam­ple id
  - Data man­age­ment with SQL Database
  - Stan­dard QC Report

Con­trol and guar­an­tee a uni­form 
fin­ish - no more mottling!

Mottling dis­turbes the over­all color har­mony of effect fin­ishes. These irreg­u­lar light­ness vari­a­tions can now be objec­tively mea­sured with BYK-Gard­ner's newest inno­va­tion: the cloud-run­ner sim­u­lates visual eval­u­a­tion under dif­fer­ent observ­ing angles and char­ac­ter­izes clouds / mot­tles by their size and vis­i­bil­ity.

cloud-run­ner

select mode ...

and mea­sure

Comes com­plete with:
Mottling meter with pro­tec­tive cover
Ref­er­ence tile with cer­tifi­cate
smart-chart soft­ware on CD
Dock­ing sta­tion with USB-able
2 recharge­able Li-Ion bat­tery packs
Oper­at­ing man­ual
Car­ry­ing case
Train­ing

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice
dur­ing war­ranty period

Sys­tem require­ments:
Oper­at­ing sys­tem: Win­dows® XP SP3, Vista SP2
or Win­dows 7 SP1
Micro­soft® .NET Frame­work 4
Excel® ver­sion: 2003 or 2007, incl. VBA
Hard­ware: Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, or equi­va­lent
Mem­ory: 2 GB RAM
Hard-disk space: min. 100 MB
Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion: 1280 x 1024 pixel or higher
Disk drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Inter­face: freee USB port

¹Stan­dard devi­a­tion

Train­ing for cloud-run­ner
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in oper­at­ing the cloud-run­ner sys­tem and under­s­tand­ing your mot­tle read­ings. As a result you will be able to use the mottling meter to save time and money and at the same time improve your qual­ity. There­fore, the instru­ment comes with a one day train­ing course includ­ing:

1. Mottling The­ory

• Visual per­cep­tion and instru­men­tal mea­sure­ment of
  Mottling / Cloudi­ness
• Data inter­pre­ta­tion: How can the read­ings be used 
  to opti­mize pro­cess and mate­rial param­e­ters

2. Oper­a­tion and Soft­ware Train­ing

• Set-up of an “Organizer” to cre­ate a rou­tine
  mea­sure­ment pro­ce­dure
• Pro­gram­ming of the instru­ment with “organizer” and
  mea­sure­ment of sev­eral sam­ples
• Direct data trans­fer to Excel for doc­u­men­ta­tion of
  indi­vi­d­ual read­ings
• Data trans­fer to smart-chart soft­ware and sav­ing in a
  database for rou­tine QC
• Data anal­y­sis

The train­ing can be per­formed in one day or two half days. It is rec­om­mended to split the train­ing into two half days:

Day 1:  The­ory and basic oper­a­tion (set-up organizer,
            tak­ing read­ings and sav­ing data in a database)
Day 2:  3-4 weeks later to ensure read­ings were taken and
           saved in a database. Data anal­y­sis and stan­dard 
           QC reports can be explained using cus­tomer
           spe­cific data.

For Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Ser­vices and
Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance see pages 268 - 270.