Because of the increasing need for extremely high accuracy it has become desirable to apply laser based velocimeters throughout the metals rolling process to measure both speed and length.
However, as a class, traditional Laser Doppler Velocimeters (LDVs) have not been universally successful because of factors including:
Good accuracy at high target speeds but poor accuracy at low target speeds
Succeptibility to physical damage due to mounting too close to moving strip
Overheating in inhospitable mill environments
Inability to measure low reflectance targets
Poor length accuracy for long strips
The KELK ACCUSPEED Laser Velocimeter was designed and developed specifically to outperform all other laser speed and length measuring devices in the most difficult mill applications. Using new technology developed by KELK physicists, ACCUSPEED delivers both speed and length measuring performance well beyond anything available elsewhere. With the highest speed measuring accuracy (constant at all speeds), the highest available standoff distance, the ability to measure low reflectance targets, length measuring accuracy that sets a new standard in the industry, and an integrated water-cooled enclosure for protection in the worst environments, ACCUSPEED is the ideal choice in casters, hot and cold stripmills, tube mills, bar mills, section mills, plate mills, and processing lines, as well as in other industrial applications outside metals rolling.