The new TSA Tactile Sensation Analyzer not only features a high-quality design, but also convinces with extended possibilities for determining haptic comfort of hygienic paper. Additionally, the device captures a high-resolution picture of the sample and can be connected to a Virtual Haptic Library (cloud-based database).
The TSA measuring instrument and measuring method are internationally patented and protected.
Product description
The new TSA measures - like its previous model - the softness, smoothness and flexibility of base and finished tissue products objectively and reliably. Moreover, specific hand feel values (HF) can be calculated from these parameters using mathematical models.
A fundamentally improved capability of determining the sample's springback behavior has been added to the new device. Furthermore, the new TSA offers the possibility to measure two additional parameters: thermal haptics (surface thermal conductivity) and thermal insulation. A camera can take a high-resolution image of the clamped sample in order to give the user a visual impression of the material and to carry out further analyses.
All of this data is automatically digitized and can be processed and stored according to customer-specific requirements through a cloud-based haptic database, the Virtual Haptic Library, making it available to authorized persons worldwide in real-time (quality assurance and control).
Users
Chemical suppliers
Paper machine builders
Tissue producers
Tissue converters
Pulp producers
Universities & Institutes
Retailers
Fiber manufacturers
Application areas
Process optimization
Process control
Production control
Product optimization
Benchmarking
R&D
Incoming control
Quality assurance
Complaint management
Troubleshooting
Marketing & Sales
Results
Smoothness / Roughness
Softness
Flexibility / Stiffness
Hand Feel (depending on mathematical models)
Plasticity (characterizing the recovery behaviour)
Hysteresis (characterizing the recovery behaviour)
