SI3100-MED
Inline Vision Inspection for Medical Tubing
The SI3100-MED is Taymer’s surface inspection system for medical tubing, capturing, analyzing, and judging every square millimeter of the product’s surface — the most thorough inline method available for catching flaws before they reach a customer or fail in the field. It’s built on Taymer’s SI3100 platform, adapted specifically for medical tubing, catheters, and balloon tubing applications.
Taymer has installed 1,938 inspection systems in 55 countries since 1961 and is ISO 9001:2015 certified.
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Reduced Surface Defects
The medical tubing surface defect inspector provides the operator with a view of current surface images as well as the most recent surface defects with defect dimensions. This continuous stream of real-time information — especially failure data — allows the operator to isolate the causes of surface imperfections. Identifying when and how a defect occurs allows your technical staff to reduce occurrences of surface defects and prevent customer complaints and rejects.
Quality Assurance
The Surface Inspector captures images of your tubing, saves them to disk, and lets you print them for internal or customer-facing quality reporting. Its display makes it easy for engineering and production supervisors to examine a defect without needing to see the physical defect itself. Defect locations are recorded together with the image, allowing operators to find and eliminate defects before they reach customers or fail in the field.
The Medical Surface Inspector will catch any defects on the tubing before they reach your customers or fail in the field.
Features
- Detects gels, voids, pinholes, bulges, neckdowns, contaminants, blemishes, and scratches on tubing
- Supports line speeds up to 400 meters per minute or 1,300 feet per minute
- 3-camera configuration to provide 360° coverage of product surface and 100% of product length
- Includes customizable stainless steel enclosure and industrial stand
- Alerts operator and production machinery if any defects are found
- Records any defects for QA records and operator verification
- Accurately measures and records tube diameter along 1 or 3 axes
- Saves length information for each defect to allow operators to easily locate the defects after detection
- Integrates with external PLC to provide defect and product measurement information
- Generates reports containing relevant product diameter, defect, and measurement information
Specifications
- Maximum line speed: 400 m/min | 1,300 ft/min. Exact max speed depends on application.
- Minimum detectable defect size: 0.025mm and up | 0.001″ and up
- Outer diameter range: 0.01mm–30mm | 0.0004″–1.18″. Other diameters available on request.
- Camera configuration: 3 cameras, 100% coverage of tube circumference
- Pixels per square mm: ~1,500 for small diameter tubing
- Percent overlap between images: 5%
- Image processing: All images from all cameras are read, enhanced, and analyzed, resulting in 100% product coverage at maximum line speed
- Lighting: LED
- Location: Before printer, on tubes without print legends. Can optionally be installed after the printer.
- Type of defects detected:
- Gels
- Voids
- Pin holes
- Neck downs
- Bulges
- Scratches
- Contaminants
- Discolorations or other imperfections
- Dimensions:
- Without stand: 229mm x 559mm x 483mm (L x W x H) | 9″ x 22″ x 19″
- With stand: 840mm x 635mm x 1625mm (L x W x H) | 33″ x 25″ x 64″
- Custom stands can be built
- Power supply: 110V or 220V, 50/60 Hz
Frequently Asked Questions
What defects can the SI3100-MED detect on medical tubing?
The SI3100-MED detects gels, voids, pinholes, bulges, neckdowns, contaminants, blemishes, scratches, and discolorations across 100% of the tubing surface.
What line speeds and tubing sizes does the SI3100-MED support?
It supports line speeds up to 400 meters per minute (1,300 feet per minute) and outer diameters from 0.01mm to 30mm, with other diameters available on request.
Is the SI3100-MED an inline or offline inspection system?
The SI3100-MED is an inline system, typically installed before the printer on tubes without print legends, inspecting continuously during production rather than on finished samples.
Can the SI3100-MED be used on catheters and balloon tubing, not just standard tubing?
Yes — the SI3100-MED is built on Taymer’s SI3100 surface inspection platform, adapted for medical tubing applications including catheters and balloon tubing.