Steinbeis Transfer Center
Metrology and Process Engineering
| Zur Kinzigau 5 | |
| D-77652 Offenburg | |
| Phone: | 0781/22448 |
| Fax: | 0781/9709906 |
| E-Mail: | SU0218(at)stw.de |
- Management:
- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Franz Knopf
Services
- Consulting
- Applied research and development studies
- Functional specification/product requirement manuals
- Development of new customized products
Key Areas
- Colorimetric analysis in intaglio printing, color space conversion
- Electrostatic applications, general electrostatic adhesion in process engineering
- Examples:
- Improvement of impact level on roll cooling stands
- Adhesion of material lines
- Use of electrostatics during color conversion in intaglio printing
- Development of hand-held devices for measuring different physical properties (key areas: temperature, pressure, moisture, pH value)
- Development of data loggers for the storage of physical properties
- Development of transmitters for the conversion of physical properties to different fieldbus systems
- Drying technology for high-speed material lines
- Use of low-energy plasma for boundary layer control
Project Examples
- Development of a colorimetric table for intaglio printing and proofing
- Development of a colorimetric table for intaglio printing and production
- Online colorimetric analysis of moving material lines
- Distributed computer-aided publishing coupled with color space conversion across different process stages of the printing industry using neuronal networks
- Development of a bus-compatible logger system for the collection and storage of temperature and moisture data
- Development of a multibus-compatible transmitter system for connection to multiple common fieldbus systems
- Development of new drying technology in conjunction with the introduction of a low-energy plasma technique for boundary layer control