4D.WATCHER

About the product

Process mon­i­tor­ing of the lat­est generation

4D.watch­er is our com­plete solu­tion con­sist­ing of hard­ware and soft­ware for process mon­i­tor­ing, which extracts rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion, reduces the data vol­ume, sim­pli­fies oper­abil­i­ty and enables you to also man­age mul­ti­ple > 4D.TWO data sources.

> 4D.TWO is our lat­est sen­sor gen­er­a­tion: a uni­ver­sal mul­ti­sen­sor data source for (almost) every laser appli­ca­tion, for which process mon­i­tor­ing is cru­cial in terms of qual­i­ty con­trol. It pro­vides >1M samples/s from 42+ sin­gle sen­sors with dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal properties.

4D.watcher.core
4D.watch­er.core receives all data sent from > 4D.TWO (>1M samples/s). It syn­chro­nizes them with your PLC data and thus assigns part, group and seam num­bers, com­bines mul­ti­ple chan­nels accord­ing to your spec­i­fi­ca­tions and man­ages com­plete evaluation. 
4D.watcher.client

On the oth­er hand, 4D.watch­er.client is the front end for you. It enables you to visu­al­ize and para­me­ter­ize mul­ti­ple 4D.watch­er.cores. It is also your data hub, as it requests all eval­u­at­ed data of the con­nect­ed cores.

Fea­tures

User friend­ly. Pre­cise. Intel­li­gent – thanks to high match rate and error classification.

  • Error detec­tion: Find process errors more reli­ably with a num­ber of new tech­nolo­gies such as Loss­less Tech­nol­o­gy, or by select­ing the eval­u­a­tion chan­nels which best match your process devi­a­tions. > What is Loss­less Technology?
  • Com­bi chan­nels: Com­bine dif­fer­ent chan­nels up to 4 com­bi chan­nels to clas­si­fy errors.
  • Teach-in process: Start the teach-in process with only one click and the next sig­nals are used to cre­ate a scat­ter band for error classification.
  • Trace­abil­i­ty: Data stor­age in a local data­base for fast access to his­tor­i­cal data; long-term stor­age on your own serv­er solu­tion – we pro­vide a turnkey inter­face for your IT

Insights into the software

Com­po­nent visualization

The com­po­nents pro­duced are dis­played in the 4D.watch­er.client com­po­nent view. The indi­vid­ual welds are visu­al­ized as coloured dots. The col­or of the dots pro­vides infor­ma­tion about the eval­u­a­tion result (green: OK, red: not OK).

What next?

Roadmap

Already Fea­tured
With­in ~12 Months
At Some Point in Time
Appli­ca­tion & Process
Appli­ca­tions
Weld­ing, cut­ting, coat­ing, cladding, direct ener­gy depo­si­tion, USP drilling
+ fur­ther USP processes
+ LPBF (map­ping)
+ Oth­ers
Process
Process dura­tions 5 – 5000ms
Process-to-process breaks
<10ms pos­si­ble
+ End­less process dura­tion
(i.e. pipe welding)
Hard­ware
4D.TWO mount
Fiber only
+ Direct mount
+ Off-axis
4D.extender card
Research only
Addi­tion­al sen­sor chan­nels with sychro­nized PTP stamps allows the usage of 3rd par­ty sensors
+ X/Y/Z scan­ner data with syn­cronized PTP stamps
Real­time closed
loop con­trol
Fast, direct ana­log Out­put (0–5V) from up to 2 com­bined RAW-Chan­nels (e.g. adjustable ratio or two-col­or pyrometer)
+ 4D.clc
(closed loop controller)
Acoustic emis­sion
Research only
Lim­it­ed func­tion with built-in microphone
Exter­nal micro­phone via 4D.exten­der card
Soft­ware
Com­bi channels
Up to 9 com­bi chan­nels indi­vid­ual com­bi chan­nel analy­sis pro­vid­ed by 4D data spe­cial­ists
Dri­ven by your appli­ca­tion experience
⇢ Reduce pseu­do faults
⇢ Fault classification
+ Addi­tion­al RAW-sig­nals from 3rd par­ty sensors/inputs via 4D.exten­der card can be used for CombiChannels
+ AI-dri­ven gen­er­a­tion of com­bi chan­nels for opti­mized detec­tion and clas­si­fi­ca­tion results
Eval­u­a­tion of com­bi chan­nels
with scat­ter band
Up to 9 com­bi channels
+ 4D.exten­der card
+ Com­plex AI-dri­ven eval­u­a­tion
for max­i­mum detec­tion rates
Syn­cronized PTP time stamps
Pro­vid­ed for each 4D.TWO chan­nel on 10µs basis
+ for 4D.exten­der and exter­nal data
Con­nec­tiv­i­ty
PLC com­mu­ni­ca­tion
for trace­abil­i­ty
PROFINET, PROFIBUS, DeviceNet, CANopen, AS-Inter­face, CC-Link
+ More field­bus types
Data trans­fer and storage
+ OPC-UA inter­face
+ 4D.dat­a­cen­ter

Is a fea­ture miss­ing, or are you unsure whether we cov­er it?

Sched­ule discussion
Already Fea­tured
With­in ~12 Months
At Some Point in Time
Appli­ca­tion & Process
Appli­ca­tions
Weld­ing, cut­ting, coat­ing,
cladding, direct ener­gy
depo­si­tion, USP drilling
+ fur­ther USP processes
+ LPBF (map­ping)
+ Oth­ers
Process
Process dura­tions 5 – 5000ms
Process-to-process breaks
<10ms pos­si­ble
+ End­less process dura­tion
(i.e. pipe welding)
Hard­ware
4D.TWO mount
Fiber only
+ Direct mount
+ Off-axis
4D.extender card
Research only
Addi­tion­al sen­sor channels
with sychro­nized PTP stamps
allows the usage of 3rd par­ty
sensors
+ X/Y/Z scan­ner data with
syn­cronized PTP stamps
Real­time closed
loop con­trol
Fast, direct ana­log Out­put
(0–5V) from up to
2 com­bined RAW-Chan­nels
(e.g. adjustable ratio
or two-col­or pyrometer)
+ 4D.clc
(closed loop controller)
Acoustic emis­sion
Research only
Lim­it­ed func­tion with
built-in microphone
Exter­nal micro­phone via
4D.exten­der card
Soft­ware
Com­bi channels
Up to 9 com­bi channels
indi­vid­ual com­bi
chan­nel analy­sis pro­vid­ed by
4D data spe­cial­ists
Dri­ven by your
appli­ca­tion experience
⇢ Reduce pseu­do faults
⇢ Fault classification
+ Addi­tion­al RAW-sig­nals
from 3rd par­ty sensors/inputs
via 4D.exten­der card
can be used for CombiChannels
+ AI-dri­ven gen­er­a­tion
of com­bi chan­nels for
opti­mized detec­tion
and clas­si­fi­ca­tion results
Eval­u­a­tion of
com­bi chan­nels
with scat­ter band
Up to 9 com­bi channels
+ 4D.exten­der card
+ Com­plex AI-dri­ven eval­u­a­tion
for max­i­mum detec­tion rates
Syn­cronized
PTP time stamps
Pro­vid­ed for each 4D.TWO
chan­nel on 10µs basis
+ for 4D.exten­der
and exter­nal data
Con­nec­tiv­i­ty
PLC com­mu­ni­ca­tion
for trace­abil­i­ty
PROFINET, PROFIBUS,
DeviceNet, CANopen,
AS-Inter­face, CC-Link
+ More field­bus types
Data trans­fer
and storage
+ OPC-UA inter­face
+ 4D.dat­a­cen­ter

Is a fea­ture miss­ing, or are you unsure whether we cov­er it?

Sched­ule discussion

Appli­ca­tions

Process mon­i­tor­ing for the industry …

The 4D.watch­er is a ver­sa­tile tool, which is suit­able for dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions, such as:

Automotive

Auto­mo­tive industry

Body­work con­struc­tion
Bat­tery packs
Fuel cells

Aviation

Aero­space

Engines
Tur­bines
Struc­tur­al components

Medical products

Med­ical technology

Implants
Instru­ments
Catheters

Electronics

Elec­tron­ics

Cir­cuit boards
Microchips
Sen­sors

Metal processing

Met­al processing

Pipes
Sheet met­al
Pro­files

Appli­ca­tions

Process mon­i­tor­ing for the industry …

The 4D.watch­er is a ver­sa­tile tool, which is suit­able for dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions, such as:

Automotive

Auto­mo­tive industry

Body­work con­struc­tion
Bat­tery packs
Fuel cells

Aviation

Aero­space

Engines
Tur­bines
Struc­tur­al components

Medical products

Med­ical technology

Implants
Instru­ments
Catheters

Electronics

Elec­tron­ics

Cir­cuit boards
Microchips
Sen­sors

Metal processing

Met­al processing

Pipes
Sheet met­al
Pro­files

… equipped with the lat­est sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy – our 4D.TWO

4D.TWO is our uni­ver­sal mul­ti­sen­sor data source for (almost) every laser appli­ca­tion, for which process mon­i­tor­ing is cru­cial in terms of qual­i­ty con­trol. It far exceeds the capa­bil­i­ties of oth­er sen­sors with regard to speed, sen­si­tiv­i­ty and ver­sa­til­i­ty. It pro­vides >1M samples/s from 42+ sin­gle sen­sors with dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal prop­er­ties – on one com­pact device.

  • Reduced con­fig­u­ra­tion time
  • Detec­tion of the entire range
  • Every process event is detect­ed – regard­less of how short
Get the answer to (almost) everything
… equipped with the lat­est sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy – our 4D.TWO

4D.TWO is our uni­ver­sal mul­ti­sen­sor data source for (almost) every laser appli­ca­tion, for which process mon­i­tor­ing is cru­cial in terms of qual­i­ty con­trol. It far exceeds the capa­bil­i­ties of oth­er sen­sors with regard to speed, sen­si­tiv­i­ty and ver­sa­til­i­ty. It pro­vides >1M samples/s from 42+ sin­gle sen­sors with dif­fer­ent phys­i­cal prop­er­ties – on one com­pact device.

  • Reduced con­fig­u­ra­tion time
  • Detec­tion of the entire range
  • Every process event is detect­ed – regard­less of how short
Get the answer to (almost) everything

Tech­ni­cal data

Data sheets

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Tech­ni­cal data sheet (PDF, EN)

Con­tact us!

If you would like to learn more about our prod­ucts and ser­vices, or would like to request a cus­tomized offer, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. You can con­tact us by phone, via email or by using our con­tact form. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your enquiry!

Con­tact
Sched­ule con­sul­ta­tion appointment

Con­tact us!

If you would like to learn more about our prod­ucts and ser­vices, or would like to request a cus­tomized offer, please do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us. You can con­tact us by phone, via email or by using our con­tact form. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your enquiry!

Con­tact
Sched­ule con­sul­ta­tion appointment
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