BYK-mac ROBOTIC

Auto­matic mea­sure­ment of total color impres­sion of effect fin­ishes at the line

Prod­ucts can only be man­u­fac­tured with uni­form and con­sis­tent qual­ity when pro­cess sta­bil­ity is guar­an­teed. There­fore, multi-angle color, sparkle and graini­ness must be mea­sured on a rou­tine basis. The BYK-mac ROBOTIC spec­tropho­tome­ter allows auto­mated total color con­trol as it is mounted on a robotic arm. The robotic sys­tem not only mea­sures a high num­ber of cars, but also on the same areas.

Total color impres­sion of effect
fin­ishes

The BYK-mac ROBOTIC mea­sures both multi-angle color and flake char­ac­ter­i­za­tion.

• Multi-angle color mea­sure­ment at 6-angles clearly defines the light-dark as well as color flop behavior of
  effect fin­ishes
• Spark­ling and Graini­ness con­trol with a high res­o­lu­tion CCD cam­era sim­u­lates effect changes under direct and dif­fuse light­ing con­di­tions.
• Multi-angle color and effect data help to ana­lyze the cause of a color mis­match

Reli­able and objec­tive color and effect data

The BYK-mac ROBOTIC spec­tropho­tome­ter uses a light source with long-term sta­bil­ity and patented illu­mi­na­tion con­trol which pro­vide supe­rior accu­racy and low main­te­nance for many years.

• Sta­ble, long-term cal­i­bra­tion - needed only every three months
• Tem­per­a­ture inde­pen­dent mea­sure­ment results between
  10 - 40°C - with­out cal­i­bra­tion
• 10 year war­ranty on light source - no lamp changes needed
• Excel­lent agree­ment between instru­ments and cor­re­la­tion to BYK-mac and BYK-mac COLOR

Reli­able read­ings at any time

In order to guar­an­tee sta­ble posi­tion­ing, the
BYK-mac ROBOTIC is equipped with trig­ger pins on the bot­tom plate of the instru­ment. The sen­si­tiv­ity of the pins can be adjusted to the cur­va­ture of the mea­sure­ment area. If the pins do not have con­tact with the sur­face an error mes­sage will be dis­played.

Comes com­plete with:
Multi-angle spec­tropho­tome­ter
White cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard with cer­tifi­cate
Cyan and effect check­ing ref­er­ence 
Light pro­tec­tion cover
BYK­WARE auto-chart soft­ware
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion soft­ware
Ins­tal­la­tion kit 
Oper­at­ing man­ual on CD
Car­ry­ing case; Train­ing

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice dur­ing war­ranty period

Hard­ware Require­ments:
Oper­at­ing sys­tem:  Win­dows® 2000 or higher
Excel®  ver­sion: 2002 or higher VBA
Mem­ory: min. 256 MB RAM (rec­om­mended 512 MB)
Hard disk capac­ity: min. 100 MB
Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion: XGA (1024 x 768) or higher
Disk drive: CD-ROM or DVD
Inter­face: USB-port

¹ Stan­dard devi­a­tion

For Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance see page 271.

BYK-mac ROBOTIC Train­ing
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in oper­at­ing the whole sys­tem and ana­lyz­ing your color, sparkle and graini­ness data. There­fore, the instru­ment comes with a two day train­ing course includ­ing:

• Color and Effect The­ory:
  Visual per­cep­tion and instru­men­tal mea­sure­ment of multi-angle color, sparkle and graini­ness.
  Data inter­pre­ta­tion for trou­ble shoot­ing
• Sup­port in inte­grat­ing the BYK-mac ROBOTIC sen­sor into an auto­mated mea­sure­ment sys­tem
• Soft­ware train­ing - Data anal­y­sis using stan­dard reports:
  - Lab-scat­ter graph per angle to show at one glance whether all parts are within spe­c­i­fi­ca­tions
  - Color travel by sam­ple to show how indi­vi­d­ual mea­sure­ment zones per­form per mea­sure­ment angle
  - Effect graph to con­trol whether sparkle and graini­ness val­ues are within spe­c­i­fi­ca­tion

Note: For replace­ment of white, cyan and effect stan­dard, please con­tact your local ser­vice depart­ment.

Day 1:

• Color and Effect the­ory with data inter­pre­ta­tion for opti­miza­tion and trou­ble shoot­ing
• Sup­port in inte­grat­ing the BYK-mac ROBOTIC sen­sor into an auto­mated mea­sure­ment sys­tem

Day 2: 

• Soft­ware train­ing with data anal­y­sis using stan­dard reports