User`s manual

Spec*Edge Version 3.9
June 11, 2008
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This manual describes the installation and usage of the Spec*Edge
™
paper quality
control system. Developed by Apogee Systems, Inc., in cooperation with Georgia-
Pacific, Ashdown Mill, the Spec*Edge
™
system was designed to support the on-going
quality control and to meet the special production control needs of the
communications paper industry producers. Apogee gratefully acknowledges the
support, guidance in design, and many long hours of testing by Mr. Barry George
and Mr. Scott Simmons of Georgia-Pacific’s Ashdown facility. Without their help,
we could not have produced the Spec*Edge
™
system. Spec*Edge
™
was developed to
provide six (6) key measurements necessary for proper measuring and evaluation of
the slitting and cutting of sheets:
¦ Sheet squareness.
¦ Sharpness and curvature of the four edges of the sheet and the
¦ cut quality of single sheet edge.
¦ Absolute width and height of the sheet.
¦ Absolute location and diameter of the holes (if present) in the sheet.
¦ Corner sharpness.
¦ Hanging fibers per inch.
This User’s Manual consists of four sections:
Section 1 - Installation, provides the installation procedures and system
support procedures of the Spec*Edge
™
program. It is used to set up installations of
the program, but is not needed by day-to-day operations personnel.
Section 2 - Analysis, includes a description and explanation of the data,
graphs and images that Spec*Edge
™
produces after scanning each sheet.
Section 3 - Running, describes the day-to-day operation of the Spec*Edge
™
program. It includes descriptions of the various screen displays and gives the
procedures for a normal scanning scenario
Section 4 - Setup, covers the creation and changing of measurement
specifications and Spec*Edge
™
program parameters.
We recognize that many of the users of this program may be new to Windows,
so we have endeavored to make the program and these instructions as "user-
friendly" as possible; however, we have assumed
that you have a basic knowledge of your IBM-compatible PC, your scanner, and
Microsoft Windows. If you find that you have questions regarding these items,
please refer to the manuals distributed with those systems. If this doesn't help,