History

Since 1990 , AVS has been designing specific image analysis solutions for industry. Initially focusing on the the Pulp & Paper Industry, AV Snow has instruments for Gypsum board, textiles and non-wovens. Many mills struggle to find imaging instruments to do what they need to replace visually assessed inspection for process control. Many of off-the-shelf systems promise to do all things but lack the specific reporting formats and customized algorithms for these tests.

AVS has developed proprietary algorithms that mimic human vision and yield increased precision and repeatability. These algorithms can be tuned to "see" what your present inspection personnel are trained to see. AVS works with your samples and can typically develop custom solutions within a few weeks.

Our extensive experience, 25 years, mean we may already have a solution that simply needs to be adapted to your materials. AVS designs the complete system consisting of illumination, imaging platform and computing.

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 high quality instruments using currenttechnologies for various quality measurements. 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.