Oven manufacturers promote their products to the industrial coatings market with the help of accurate, efficient thermal curing of coatings. Oven designs can range from premium bespoke paint line installations to more simple batch box ovens, utilizing either convection or infrared heat transfer mechanisms.

Metal coating is an application performed routinely worldwide, as a critical part of many OEM product manufacturing processes. The thermal cure of either solvent-based or powder coatings is essential to add value to the metal fabrication, by either protecting the product, providing an improved surface finish quality, or adding functionality to the product (e.g. PTFE - lubrication). The thermal cure of the coating in either batch or conveyorized ovens is critical to the performance of the end-product, and needs to be monitored and controlled.

Custom coaters also referred to as "job shops", supply a coating facility to other OEM operations. Though not actually manufacturing an end-product of their own, the custom coater provides a variety of coating solutions for their customers, covering a range of different products.. The custom coaters often employ multiple coating lines and coating chemistries with different types of ovens (batch and conveyorized). Typically, hundreds of different product batches are processed on a monthly basis.

In the aerospace and automotive industries, temperature uniformity surveys (TUS) are crucial in confirming that your process is compliant with industry regulations and standards. Generating reports, however, can take hours and run the risk of “human error” if done manually.

To improve reporting times and eliminate man-made mistakes, Fluke Process Instruments has developed the Datapaq® Furnace TUS System to provide complete, traceable and easy-to-produce reports that prove your compliance and can help improve furnace performance.

Each system features dedicated hardware and software – designed to consistently gather accurate data, reduce reporting times and automate the report generation process – that can be used across batch furnaces, vacuum furnaces, integrated quench furnaces and other heat treatment equipment.