Adaptive Technologies Industries

ATI offers a different technology allowing customers to achieve real time measurements. This technology is based on our solid state digital beta gauge. Beta or X-ray gauges using ion chamber detectors cannot provide real time measurements. By using a solid state detector, the detector produces discrete digital real time measurements with 100% step response without the need for filters. In contrast ion chamber gauges provide dampened analog measurements with about a 63% step response and other filters to smooth out their measurements. This means that each measurement has a carryover of at least 37% from the previous measurement causing the present measurement to be a blend of 37% and 63%. To allegedly avoid the carryover, the web is broken up into machine direction slices. The ion chamber samples very fast within each slice. By reading quickly the statistical noise is very high.