Today many manufacturers are striving not only to produce the highest quality final product but also to improve manufacturing efficiency by taking analysis technology from the laboratory and applying it in their plants. By gaining tighter control over the manufacturing process, it is possible to optimize the use of materials and reduce or eliminate the production of off-specification material, thus saving reprocessing or disposal costs.
NIR is an ideally suited spectroscopic technique for process measurements because of its ability to rapidly perform remote measurements via high efficiency quartz fiber optics.