by Ana Urbina (Admin)
Optimize your plant by fixing blank positioning
As blanks pass through the roller hearth furnace, their position may change for a variety of reasons, such as contamination on the rollers or the blank shape possibly being thermally affected. While this is often unavoidable, the result is also unacceptable: if the blanks cannot be centered, you may be forced to scrap them or stop the process.
The good news: unless the situation is too extreme, systematic positioning errors can be corrected
With our PH-Inspector system you can optimize the process by providing feedback during the cycle. If you place a line scanner at the end of the furnace, it can check the correct thermal pre-treatment to send the current coordinates of the blanks to our system, which calculates and transmits optimized deposit coordinates for the loading robot in front of the furnace. With these values, the individual blanks are deposited at an angle that can significantly improve centering ability when leaving the furnace.
Key points of the PH-Inspector:
- Full CQI-9 Rev. 4 conformity of the IR temperature measurement
- Recording independent of PLC cycle times
- Support for tailored tempering
- Monitoring of transfer zones, independent of sheet position
- Support of IR line scanners, IR thermal imaging cameras and pyrometers
- Can be combined with SelVision camera solutions (position control, destacking, etc)
- In cycle protocols for the connection with higher-level QS systems
- Automated report feature
- Open system for an individual extension