by Farabi Nishi
Discover the software system that grows and adapts with your business!
Hot Stamping, as a staple of the automotive industry, is constantly changing and adapting to answer to new demands. As such a complex process, the large-scale production and simultaneous activities it involves pose challenges in monitoring critical areas and parameters, often leading to issues such as misaligned blanks, imprecise measurements, and other errors that, at best, lower product quality or, at worst, lead to scrapped materials.
Feeling the pressure? We got your back! -At Selmatec we offer our PH Inspector, a scalable system that covers all stages of hot stamping, ensuring transparency and traceability at every stage. Each step of the process is optimized through specific modules to simplify data management and monitoring. Make the smart investment in our all-in-one solution and customize further by adding modules as your business grows and adapts.
Our PH Inspector system features the following modules, which include support from basic tracking functionality to high-level data mining:
- Position Control
- Thermal inspection
- Process data acquisition
- Blank identification
- Part identification
- PLC setpoint Changelog
- Stamp identification
- Part status tracking
Mix and match modules for the individual needs of your business
Designed with easy installation in mind, you have the freedom to use specialized modules where your plant needs it most, but early detection of errors or system malfunction is facilitated by in-cycle protocols and process data acquisition modules.
Example of use: since blanks will change position as they travel on the rollers of the furnace, our recommended strategy is to add a module for furnace entry, a module for furnace exit and a third module for process data acquisition to cross-check information.
In-cycle protocols and process data acquisition abilities guarantee seamless communication between robots, PH-Inspector software and any connected device. Not only you never lose sight of the action, but your system will create automated reports, as well as predictive and corrective scenarios, providing valuable insight for current operations and future tool maintenance.
Additionally, whether it's overnight shifts, weekends, or any other period of absence, the Selmatec "ChangeLog" feature assists by tracking setpoint changes, assigning the appropriate root-cause (e.g. material vs process-related influences) with its respective operator ID.
Ready to try it out? We’d like to remind our customers that our systems are CQI-9 compliant. We recommend trying our "starter" setup comprising essential modules like position and temperature control, which already has the flexibility to connect additional devices such as line scanners, pyrometers, and cameras for superb functionality.
Reach out to our experts and explore our PH Inspector today!