Fields due to residual magnetization in the affected zone are measured locally along the direction towards the unaffected metal with a step width of 1-2 mm by the MS-1 magnetic sorter after removing the bead.
This paper reports on the Automated Sorter AC-1 device intended for the electromagnetic inspection of the hardening quality of local sections of small articles and their automated sorting with respect to testing results.
The hyperspectral online line-scan system was integrated with a commercial apple-sorting machine and evaluated to inspect apples for fecal contamination and defects at a processing line speed of over three apples per second.