Cable Insulation Thickness has been traditionally measured on Profile Projectors or Measuring Microscopes, however the method gives inaccurate results and is time consuming. On the other hand Cable Quickie, a Field of View based measurement system provides accurate results in just 1-2 seconds. Below is a comparison of the measuring systems.

Profile Projector / Measuring Microscope Cable Quickie Inferences / Remarks
With a minimum magnification of 7X/ 10X set on system, a slice of the cable sample is kept on the worktable and then the operator has to visually locate the minimum thickness point either on projector screen or through the microscope eyepiece and then measure the thickness at that point and 5 subsequent points approximately equidistance from each other. The results are recorded in the Digital Read Out (D.R.O.) or directly in the software from it the same can be exported to the PDF or excel format. If the D.R.O is used instead of software then the operator has to manually note the results and make the spreadsheet later. A slice of the cable sample is kept on the work platform and with a click of a button the software automatically measures the thickness at 10,000 points & from those results, it calculates the minimum thickness point and then locates other points equidistance from each other. Thus the requirement for visually locating the minimum thickness point is left to an advanced computer algorithm. Finding the minimum thickness point based on users discretion can result in loss of thousands of dollars as excess material.
Operator to Operator Variation in measurements, data entry errors No operator to operator to variation, automatic data transfer Human errors can result in wrong calculation of insulation thickness leading to losses
Setting up the System, Manual Point Probing and Calculations lead to 15-20 minutes to generate reports No set-up time, Immediate Reports in seconds More samples can be measured in a given time leading to better control over the process
Skilled operator is required No operator skills are required Costs of keeping a skilled operator are not incurred.