Wisconsin Trip to Commission Momentum 5 Analysis System

WipWare’s technical specialists, Marty Wanner and Andrew Palangio traveled to Wausau, Wisconsin in November to commission our Momentum 5 Conveyor Particle Analysis System at the 3M Greystone location. The 3M team that originally installed the camera assembly did a remarkable job, with cables well protected and routed in a neat and tidy fashion. The camera was inspected and found to be working properly. The camera control box was also reviewed and all connections were inspected and found to be properly coupled.

Once connectivity was established between the workstation and the camera, the edge detection parameters were determined and image analyses proceeded. While the system was gathering data, Marty and Andrew took this opportunity to showcase our WipFrag software with a drone flight over the muckpile to perform a UAV analysis. While the drone was in flight, images were also snapped at ground level with WipFrag iOS on an iPhone to demonstrate the capabilities of the Apple app version of  the software.

The UAV image created is a GeoTIFF orthomosaic file – a mosaic of stitched-together drone images with scale and GPS information embedded in the file. This image format is required for UAV image analysis in WipFrag. The technical specialists walked through the differences between UAV image analysis and other image analyses in WipFrag. Then, the specialists compared the UAV analysis with the muck pile analysis and generated further merged analyses for demonstration.

After completing the UAV image analysis demonstration, they reviewed the data that the Momentum 5 analysis system had been collecting and fined tuned the calibration.

The setup of the Momentum 5 analysis system and camera was successfully completed due to the great teamwork between 3M Wausau’s personnel and the visiting WipWare technical specialists.

Thank You to 3M’s Greystone team for  providing essential information and assistance to ensure a successful on-site visit and commissioning.