Datacolor, the global player in digital colour management solutions and colour communication technology, has debuted ‘Guardian’, a remote instrument monitoring technology and predictive maintenance program for monitoring the overall condition and proper upkeep of the company’s high-end spectrophotometers and support to run the business effectively 24×7.
Datacolor’s Guardian conducts periodic diagnostic instrument testing through a process of measuring reference grade High Chroma Tiles. Taking only minutes to perform, the data is collected and automatically transmitted to a Datacolor server which then automatically sends results to the Datacolor Guardian sentinel server. The data is then reviewed by a staff of specially trained Datacolor instrument experts for any possible problematic trends. The expert technicians can detect subtle trends that may adversely affect instrument performance and diagnose the problem before it occurs.
This program helps in preventive maintenance in lowering the cost by eliminating or reducing production errors, leading to higher reliability and increased business.
“Exclusively offered by Datacolor, Guardian is unique to the color spectrophotometer space and a quantum leap in quality management,” said Brian Levey, Vice-President, Industrial Business Unit, Datacolor.
Meanwhile, Datacolor has also introduced the latest version of TOOLS 2.0 for maintaining its color quality control and management software for the textile, paper, paint, plastics, ink, cosmetics and automotive industries, among others. The TOOLS 2.0 version quickly and easily generates color measurement files and set pass/fail criteria.
The software has Windows 7 compatibility, Microsoft Office 2007 style interface and updated and easy-to-access features and functionality – such as streamlined navigation, which allows users to generate customized reports and screens for viewing data and configure forms for printing data.