Advanced Photonix has this week announced that it has received the first orders for its T-Gauge industrial terahertz gauging system from its value-added reseller, Thermo Fisher Scientific. The systems are scheduled to be delivered late in second quarter of this fiscal year.

The T-Gauge measurement systems will be utilized for quality control of multilayer commercial industrial products. The system will measure the layers and provide feedback for adjusting the amount of material to ensure the quality of the product and reduce material costs. Advanced Photonix says that the advantage of the T- Gauge system is that it can measure the layers directly in real-time and closer to the source than other technologies, "making a bigger impact on the manufacturing processes".

The T-Gauge system is designed to be deployed on the industrial factory floor for process and quality control applications requiring non-contact measuring of physical properties such as; multiple layer thickness measurements, density, contamination by foreign substances, sub-surface defects within a product and moisture analysis. The T-Gauge is non-nuclear and operates at speeds that make it ideal for web processing and converting solutions. The system can be used on-line or off-line to help manufacturers to improve quality and reduce costs by collecting more information and tightening tolerances than previously available.

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