24.10.2022: The ASDI-500 Automated Diamond Spectral Inspection system, collectively developed by SSEF and UNIMEC, which will probably be unveiled at GemGenève Worldwide Gem and Jewelry Present, November 3-6, 2022.

The ASDI-500 Automated Diamond Spectral Inspection system, collectively developed by SSEF and UNIMEC, which will probably be unveiled at GemGenève Worldwide Gem and Jewelry Present, November 3-6, 2022.

The ASDI-500 is ready to detect and extract synthetics and simulants as small as half a millimetre in diameter, on the astounding pace of 700 stones per hour.
    

The Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF and UNIMEC SA, a robotics firm additionally headquartered in Switzerland, have introduced the discharge of the ASDI-500, a brand new model of the Automated Diamond Spectral Inspection gadget.

In a position to display screen very giant portions of spherical colourless polished melee, detecting and extracting synthetics and simulants from among the many pure diamonds, the ASDI-500 is the one such system working as we speak that has the diploma of precision to deal with stones as small as 500 microns (0.5 mm) in diameter.

When it was launched eight years in the past, the ASDI was the very first gadget in a position to robotically display screen giant batches of colourless diamonds. It was developed to guard the integrity of the Swiss watch and jewelry trade, which as main customers of melee should be capable of be sure that undisclosed synthetics and simulants will not be being offered as pure diamonds.

Previous to the discharge of the ASDI-500, no automatised authentication answer was accessible for very small melee. The brand new gadget is ready to analyse spherical polished diamonds ranging in diameter from 0.50 to three.80 mm, working at an unmatched common sorting pace of 700 stones per hour. The machine can detect all colourless artificial diamonds, each HPHT and CVD grown, and diamond simulants.

“The ASDI-500 is the first-ever computerized machine to fill the hole between roughly 0.50 mm and 1.00 mm,” defined Jean-Pierre Chalain, director of SSEF’s diamond division. “To an uninformed individual, this hole could seem insignificant, however merchants and customers of melee know that it represents thousands and thousands of diamonds per 30 days.”

UNIMEC built-in inside the ASDI-500 its extraordinarily quick pick-and-place robotic, which has an astounding precision of positioning of 5 microns.

The ASDI-500 will probably be formally unveiled on the GemGenève Worldwide Gem and Jewelry Present, November 3-6, 2022, at Palexpo in Geneva. events are invited to contact SSEF for a viewing of the instrument.  

The ASDI-500 is manufactured and commercialized by UNIMEC SA.

About SSEF

The Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF, which is a part of the Swiss Basis for the Analysis of Gems (SSEF: Schweizerische Stiftung für Edelstein-Forschung), was based by commerce organisations in 1972 and works independently on a scientific foundation.

It’s structured as a basis underneath the aegis of Switzerland’s Federal Division of Dwelling Affairs. The operate of its laboratory is to analyse valuable stones and situation take a look at stories for diamonds, colored stones and pearls. Members of SSEF Laboratory are additionally engaged in analysis and schooling, in reference to main universities or with different gemmological laboratories.

About UNIMEC

UNIMEC SA is a Swiss firm specialised in automation with a worldwide clientele. It was initially based in 1979 by an organization manufacturing watch dials. Right this moment, UNIMEC presents a variety of high quality automation merchandise and options which might be integrated into varied kinds of manufacturing strains. These automation models allow the switch and meeting of every kind of elements.

UNIMEC additionally presents totally different normal and particular machines for the worldwide watch and jewelry industries, in addition to for the medical trade. The corporate runs the entire manufacturing technique of its merchandise, from design to distribution, together with technical and software program improvement, machining and meeting, and after-sales service.

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