More than 90% of cost of producing cloth on a loom is accounted for by the cost of the raw material. Therefore it is desirable to prevent defects from occuring, or if they do occur from continuing.

It is also desirable not to have to handle the cloth after weaving for a searate inspection process.

By inspecting automatically directly on the loom running defects can be minimised and a defect map created to assist in high speed rolling at mending.

A camera based system incorporating Shelton Visions proprietary defect detection software, developed for high speed defect detection.

The SMW (slo moving web) inspection system uses state of the art camera technology with low cost but efficient processing unts to provide a cost effective on loom automatic insection solution.