History

    Since 1990 , AVS has been committed to fulfilling the above promise for the Pulp & Paper Industry. We noticed that there were many mills struggling to find imaging instruments to do what they needed for process control as well as R&D applications. Many of these off-the-shelf systems promised to do all things but lacked the specific reporting formats and customized algorithms for paper tests.

   AVS pioneered the first 400 DPI optical flatbed scanner platform for rapid assessment of dirt and ink particles in pulp and paper. Custom software was designed to allow the scanner , which unlike its camera counterparts, generated image data several megabytes in size to be analyzed with a standard 16MHZ PC with 1 megabyte of memory and DOS 3.1 ! It was now possible to do a complete TAPPI dirt count on a 8.5x11 inch sheet in only 20 seconds.

   This same innovation has created other high quality instruments for Formation and Printability measurement. These instruments have the highest repeatability, reproducibility and reliability in the industry. AVS has always supplied calibration targets to maintain and check the integrity of all measurements. Our custom algorithms and hardware experience guarantee the best possible instrument with state of the art implementation. Our focus is on excellence and our customers.