Frequently asked questions

You need a calibrated measurement of slot aperture, wire profile and aperture distribution, traceable and reproducible across batches. CTRL+ instruments output exactly that — a digital report per screen, audit-ready, with the same calibrated metric whether the measurement was taken on the production line, on the lab bench or in the field.

Wire wrap screens are formed by triangular wedge wire wrapped around a perforated base pipe; the slot is the gap between adjacent wire turns. Slotted liners are tubes with longitudinal slots machined into the wall. Both require slot aperture qualification — and CTRL+ measures both.

A feeler gauge is destructive (deforms the slot at contact), single-point, undocumented and operator-dependent. Optical metrology is non-contact, samples the full slot profile, produces a digital trace, and removes operator bias. On a 200-screen batch, time per screen drops from 30 minutes (manual) to 2 minutes (optical) — with full traceability.

From ~50 µm to ~2 mm — covering the full range of sand control screens (0.002 in to 0.080 in), water well screens, paper-machine screens and industrial filtration. Slot length, slot width, wire corner radius and wire half-angle are all measured.

With most+ directly in your warehouse: power on, place it on the screen, scan the slots, receive a per-screen measurement report. Whole batches are documented and archived in Arcadia+Reports — auditable, queryable, exportable. You can compare measurements against your specifications, and defective screens are flagged before they leave the warehouse — before they reach the well, before they cost you NPT.

Yes — that's what olmost+ does. Continuous slot monitoring integrated directly onto the manufacturing machine, every screen measured during production, no operator handling, no line slowdown. osmart+ goes further: real-time corrective adjustments fed back to the machining parameters, automatically.

Each instrument is calibrated against certified reference standards. Every measurement is timestamped, instrument-tagged, archived in Arcadia+Reports — batch ID, screen serial number, measurement hardware used. Reports are exportable in PDF or CSV, sent by email or accessible via your web portal for QMS integration.

A single workover from a sand-control failure can cost $1M to $10M+ in NPT and deferred production. CTRL+ instruments pay for themselves on the first prevented failure. For manufacturers, documented quality is the difference between commodity pricing and premium markets.