A new standard in glass quality control

You are an experienced glass producer – you know what you’re doing, but you have a feeling that you could be keeping a tighter control on the quality of glass being delivered. Here are five signs that indicate you may need to improve your production processes:

1. You’ve lost an important customer to your competitors, or you haven’t gained any new customers in a long time. Next to prices or poor service, it could be product quality that is at fault.
2. You struggle to balance volume of output with consistent quality.
3. You need to increase output to meet demand, but don’t have the staff or capacity to manage product quality.
4. Your claim costs are rising.
5. You need to reduce waste and operate more sustainably.

According to Flat Glass Solutions, the introduction of a Viprotron scanner, can help solve all these issues. Viprotron’s Temper Scanner 5D provides a complete metrology system – with glass defect detection after the furnace exit – and the ability to identify all kinds of distortion, including rollerwave, edgekink, anisotropy, white haze, scratches and coating defects.

Easily integrated into existing or planned processing lines, the Temper Scanner 5D features ‘True Edge’ technology, which controls the glass from edge to edge over the complete width and height.

Developed to meet the highest standards of precision, repeatability, and usability, the system is now available in the UK and Ireland through Flat Glass Solutions, Viprotron’s exclusive regional partner.

The Temper Scanner 5D integrates five advanced inspection technologies into a single, compact system:

• Distortion measurement: Captures waviness and edge deformation with ±4 milli-diopter precision.
• Anisotropy detection: Accurately identifies stress zones in line with DIN SPEC 18198.
• White haze detection: Reveals surface residues not visible until final installation.
• Bright field & reflection channels: Detect surface defects such as scratches, inclusions, and coating faults.
• True Edge Technology: Enables full-surface scanning, including edge zones — vital for architectural and high-performance glazing.

The Temper Scanner 5D is designed to deliver exceptional repeatability under industrial conditions and features automated calibration and active temperature control to ensure stable, reliable readings, even over long production runs.

Glass processors benefit from consistent, traceable data across all inspection points — helping them meet increasing quality demands.

In addition to detection, the Temper Scanner 5D also offers tools for process optimisation. Users can overlay heating and quench zones over the furnace bed to link inspection results directly to furnace structure.

This allows rapid fault tracing and informed parameter adjustment, improving both upstream and downstream processes.

For more information, visit: www.flatglasssolutions.com