A football field of webbing, inspected in six minutes.
The webbing arriving from your suppliers is the load path of every parachute. It has to hold, and there is no room for error.
You build mission-critical equipment for the United States.
Picture this. You are a large parachute manufacturer for the United States military, producing mission-critical equipment on long-term government contracts. The specialized webbing arriving from your suppliers forms the load path of every parachute. It has to hold, and there is no room for error.
But inspecting every roll manually is almost impossible.
Each one runs roughly the length of a football field and must be unrolled foot by foot to find broken picks, knots and frays. It takes hours, it ties up skilled employees, and in practice it covers only part of the roll.
If a defect is discovered after the webbing has been cut and sewn into a canopy, the cost escalates dramatically.
So you turn to Shelfmark.
Together you build a configured off-line inspection machine that examines an entire roll in six minutes, detects defects with 99% accuracy and physically tags each one. An operator reviews every flagged defect on an iPad, keeping the final judgment with your people while Shelfmark takes over the repetitive work of looking.
Now every roll is inspected end to end before it reaches a sewing table.
You inspect 10x more material, catch defective webbing before it enters production and give your team a precise record of what was found and where. Your employees are freed from hours of manual inspection, and the parachutes people depend on are built from material you know you can trust.