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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.

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. 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. 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. 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. © 2002-2007 Monitoring Technology Corporation, All Rights Reserved.