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Our customers have the benefit of 20/20 Hindsight when determining the root cause of production line problems. With a multi-hour buffer, and continous recording, 20/20 Hindsight always sees what happened. This allows line operators to get to the root cause, and minimize downtime.

Burton's No. 31 crew sets Pit Crew Challenge record CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 14, 2009) – Eliminating mistakes drives victories in Sprint Cup competitions. With pitstops, mistakes instantly translate into lost seconds, leading teams to focus on perfecting stops to give them an advantage. For five years, these skills have been showcased at the Pit Crew Challenge. And the No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet team of driver Jeff Burton put on a show on Thursday night at Time Warner Cable Arena, winning in record fashion. Burton's over-the-wall crew of gas man Curt Bowman, catch-can man Andrew Childers, front-tire changer Daniel Blizzard, front-tire carrier Jon Wallace, rear-tire changer Terry Spalding, rear-tire carrier Chris Martin and jackman Adam North completed their respective skills and the 40-yard car push in 22.115 seconds, an event record, to defeat the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge team of driver Reed Sorenson in the finals. Click here to read more. RCR Gets 20/20 Hindsight™ with Monitoring Technology Corp. WELCOME, N.C. (Dec. 3, 2008) -- Richard Childress Racing will utilize Monitoring Technology Corporation’s 20/20 Hindsight™ system to improve the efficiency of its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series over-the-wall pit crews. RCR, through its Human Performance department, and MTC have entered into a multi-year technical partnership. MTC, based in Fairfax, Va., provides products that monitor industrial equipment and processes utilizing high-speed cameras, vibration sensors, tachometers and other sensors. Its 20/20 Hindsight technology provides millisecond accuracy, portability and, as a result, increased efficiency. Click here to read more. Perfume packaging perfection. In order to best serve its contract packaging customers, it was imperative that P&G be able to get the new PKB packaging line up and running at full speeds without any unnecessary delays. At P&G’s suggestion, PKB used a 20/20 Hindsight high-speed video recorder leased from Monitoring Technology Corp. (www.2020hindsight.com) as a diagnostics tool during the vendor acceptance testing of the new packaging equipment. Click here to read more. A closer look at machine building What’s the best way to debug and commission high-speed packaging equipment? Not with a camcorder, apparently. At least that was the lesson learned at MGS Machine Corp. (www.mgsmachine.com) recently when director of operations Mike Verdon and colleagues began using a Hindsight minE 20/20 high-speed camera system from Monitoring Technology Corp. (www.monitoringtech.com) as a means of reducing lead time on machine delivery... Click here to read more. Seeing Is Believing Fifteen years ago, a leading drug manufacturer began using a high-speed camera on some of its packaging lines to research and solve problems. It gave the packaging team a precious 16 seconds of recording time at 1000 frames per second. Even with this limited amount of recording time, the technology enabled them to find and correct a multitude of inefficiencies... Click here to read more. Packaging Digest Troubleshooting triumph at Dannon (9/01/07 Cover Story!) In a split second, or the blink of an eye, a packaging line can jam. But in that tiny amount of time, a company can lose precious production time. And, as anyone in packaging knows, time is money—often the difference between a stocked shelf and an empty one... Click here to read more. High-Speed Cameras Focus on Solutions It takes just a blink of an eye for a packaging line to jam. But in that split second, a company can lose valuable time. And, as the old saying goes: Time is money. Click here to read more. Beverage World The Value of Hindsight Packaging specialists, like Don Stevens at the Miller Trenton facility, work to minimize downtime whenever possible. Fortunately for Stevens, he and his crew have a new tool in place designed to help minimize the downtime associated with investigating, diagnosing and rectifying line problems. The 9.5-million-barrel Trenton facility recently aquired Monitoring Technology Corporation's 20/20 Hindsight gigE high-speed camera system. Click here to read more. Beverage Industry article on packaging inspection equipment When "gremlins" plague a packaging line and threaten to compromise efficiencies, manufacturers can also turn to a video recording of the production line to determine the root cause of quality and production issues, says Jim Dechman, president and chief executive officer, Monitoring Technology Corp. (MTC), Fairfax, Va. "It's good to catch an issue before it ships to the consumer, but it is better to fix the problem permanently so it doesn't happen again," he says. Click here to read more. - Cached Packaging World Procter and Gamble captures high-tech assistance Troubleshooting problems such as line jams in packaging operations just got easier at the Brown Summit, NC, plant of Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble. Installed at the plant were two new high-speed video systems called 20/20 Hindsight. They're used on three packaging lines ... Click here to read more. Packaging Digest Troubleshooting machine maladies To ensure that the equipment meets all expectations where Brenton and its customers are concerned, Brenton fine-tunes, calibrates and tests each machine thoroughly before they leave the factory floor with the aid of the 20/20 Hindsight system from Monitoring Technology Corp. Click here to read more. - Cached Packaging Digest Of packaging lines and racing cars. Solving production and quality issues requires the ability to actually see the problem occur. With today's high-speed equipment, staring at a suspected problem area waiting for a failure and then guessing at corrective action is both inefficient and time-consuming. 20/20 Hindsight eliminates wasted time and money by utilizing a patented technology to record digital video while storing up to 48 continuous hours, even while simultaneously reviewing previously recorded events. Click here to read more. - Cached Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News When Monitoring Technology came up with 20/20 Hindsight, Dechman knew that it would work for packaging. "The system is designed for easy use on the line 24 hours a day," he says. "It is another set of eyes that a production or maintenance person can use to quickly determine the cause of jams or off-quality production. They just point the camera at the problem area and walk away. After the equipment jams, they scroll back through the video and replay the jam in slow motion. No wiring is required." Click here to read more. Learn How Miller Brewing Uses 20/20 Hindsight High-speed video monitoring to identify the root cause of packaging line snafus is paying big dividends at the Trenton, OH, plant of Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing. Difficulties last summer on a can line are among the issues that made the new monitoring system so appealing. Click here to read more. PackExpo.Com Unilever solves packaging issues using 20/20 Hindsight High-Speed Video Unilever's assessment of 20/20 Hindsight: "The ability to utilize the scanback viewer frame-by-frame has been the largest benefit from this investment. We've been able to move frame-by-frame through high speed bar soap packaging processes to identify the root cause of equipment stops that we never would have seen by our naked eye." Click here to read more. © 2002-2010 Monitoring Technology, All Rights Reserved.