User, 18 Oct 2026: for now one QC station for both machines; let the
records cool in a queue before testing them.
- inline-optical-qc.md "Where it sits": launch setup. Spindle stacks
from the Duplex system and the Classic, labelled at the press (press,
stamper set, first and last cycle), cool in FIFO racks (24 h accepted
practice, 8 h at the shortest, Stamper Discs; about one day of output,
2,800 to 3,100 records); the finishing operator feeds the station from
the cooled stacks. Gains: warp and centring measured on settled records
(the release value), one station instead of two, no Classic unloader
change, no warm-record sag or thermal camera. Cost: defects found hours
later, covered by the Duplex operator, per-cycle telemetry and an early
lane for the first records of each run and after stamper changes.
Record key from the stack label and stack position, checked against the
run-out stamper number. Capacity 10 to 12 a minute against 5 to 6:
one station to about two Duplex systems and two Classics. A station at
each press stays the later option. Cost table, open points, infeed row,
thermal camera note and the Newbilt question follow.
- Fleet calculator: the per-press stations and the release station are
gone; the finishing block shows the cooling racks with record stacks
and the one optical station by the corridor glass; tooltips, corridor
and conveyor texts; machine park back to its legend, finishing box
"cooling, QC, packing".
- quality-automation.md layer 1, digital-factory.md QC row,
process-flow.md stage 6, site-candidates.md block ground floor,
crane-workshop-tours.md tour stop 6.
- Investor render: infeed label "the operator sets each cooled record
down".
Checks: node --check; pw_bp_calc.py 0 fails; pw_iso_view_check.py OK;
info for every data-id at all presets, levels and rotations; GF nodes
2,414 at the full preset; zoomed shots in two rotations.
User, 17 Oct 2026: research on the inline QC equipment, which devices
can be used for the optical check.
- New docs/equipment/inline-optical-qc.md: defect-by-defect table with
the optical signature, device and limit (IEC 98 / DIN 45547 hole and
eccentricity, Stamper Discs targets, Mobineko warp limits), precedents
(no vinyl product; Dr. Schenk ISM CD scanner as template; Basler/Xiris;
PRP AQA 2023; CTU thesis), a station design (centring turntable, 4k
line-scan per side with dark-field, bright-field and transmitted light,
colour label camera, two laser warp sensors or a line profiler,
optional thermal camera) with sourced price signals, resolution and
eccentricity math, throughput, placement at the Duplex cell and the
Classic, smart-camera vs open GenICam/Aravis/OpenCV/anomalib on NixOS,
specials, Thai channels, next steps.
- Estimate USD 12k-30k hardware per station, ~USD 40k-100k for the two
launch stations; inside the existing metrology launch tier, no plan
price change.
- Backlinks: quality-automation.md layer 1, digital-factory.md QC
integration row, README bullet and tree.
quality-automation.md: the day-one per-lot tier becomes a table with an
instrument class and a rough price per check (moisture analyzer, strip
oven, density balance, spectrophotometer, gloss, sieves, muffle furnace,
stereo microscope), plus what was missing: a lab plaque press or two-roll
mill so speck, color and DSC tests do not tie up a production press;
sample conditioning as part of the method at 60 to 90 % ambient humidity;
magnets for metal in lots and regrind. Day-one tier ~USD 55k to 150k
(estimate); Karl Fischer and the ISO 182 Thermomat as options. Mature tier
priced (~120k to 240k), handheld XRF as an option, and partner labs (Payap
pharmacy, CMU science) to defer it.
total-investment.md: the day-one tier goes into "Added scope, not yet in
the roll-up" (55k to 150k USD, 1.8M to 5.0M THB); added total now ~290k
to 690k USD, about 7 to 9 % on the subtotal. Headline total unchanged.
docs/equipment/pheenix-alpha/: the four Pheenix Alpha electroforming flyers
(2024: PASU silvering, PPPU pre-plating, PDPU dual-cell plating, PMPB
passivation bench), renamed from their download hashes.
docs/equipment/sibert/: the VSP, VSF and VSC technical specifications
(2021), plus Sibert's 2008-09 optical-disc SPS literature and the 2008
Blu-ray stamper characteristics paper in sps-optical-disc-2009/. Two
byte-identical duplicates in the download were dropped.
New docs/equipment/galvanics.md, the metal-path counterpart to
pressing-line.md: datasheet tables for both ranges and what they change.
Pheenix is a second turnkey galvanics vendor next to Digital Matrix and
can quote lacquer-to-record as one vendor; neither range includes water
treatment. Utilities from the sheets (~27 kVA connected per line, DI water,
12-20 C cooling water, extraction sizes), ~5.6 m2 of footprint, and a cell
count estimate (one PDPU at the low end, two at the high end). The Sibert
machines are single-phase, 200/250/600 kg on castors, centre manually and
list no data interface; the VSC locates on the punched hole; the finisher's
water carries nickel. Weights, cycle times, prices and mould fit are listed
as quote questions.
Backlinks and small updates: README (bullet, layout tree, vendor list),
roadmap items 6 and 23, vendor landscape, supplier map, exhibitor briefing
(on-file notes, Sibert three-phase question answered), digital factory
(Pheenix PLC data, Sibert data question, RFQ clause 5), quality automation
(hardness on the centre slug, BD paper as the acceptance-spec model),
sustainability (finisher water), total investment block label (numbers
unchanged), scale (galvanics feeder note), crane weight table, process
flow, pressing-line stamper-fit question, plant page detail lines.
grabowski