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Temperature Monitoring in Primary Metals Processing

High Temp Heat Treating

Optimize product quality, improve furnace performance, and validate your process

The high temperature heat treatment industry remains at the core of our daily lives, as temperature uniformity and hardening are vital to the performance, durability, and reliability of the end-products used throughout the automotive, aerospace and electronics manufacturing industries. Getting the exact temperature of the product and its environment is critical to the quality of the final product.

The Datapaq Furnace Tracker Profiling System is comprised of a collection of data loggers, thermal barriers, and application-specific software designed to help you optimize product quality, improve furnace performance, and validate your process for suppliers.

Meanwhile, the Endurance Series is a collection if high-temperature infrared pyrometers that aid in improving product quality and uniformity, reducing reject rates, maximizing throughput, and minimizing energy costs through continuous temperature monitoring and “set it and forget it” reliability.

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Application Need 

Heat treatment facilities often support multiple industries on any given day. As a result, there are many different, albeit exacting, heat treatment specifications that require engineers to continuously adjust the furnace settings to match the temperature profile needed for each batch.

Because temperature profiles are unique to each batch as well as the overall quality and reliability of the final product, it is vital that engineers set their furnace to the exact temperature. If these temperatures are incorrect, facilities run the risk of defective products, decreased furnace performance, unnecessary downtime, and more.

In some situations, temperature may be measured by trailing thermocouples, but this is only feasible in limited cases like monitoring semi-continuous furnaces. By implementing a robust profiling system, however, facilities can profile multiples processes from within the furnace with a range of data loggers and thermal barriers.

In other circumstances, such as where heat treatment facilities want to monitor product temperatures in process, spot pyrometers can be used. Infrared pyrometers are more feasible in continuous casting, for example, as they allow facilities to measure targets that would otherwise be inaccessible due to space constraints or harsh conditions. Spot pyrometers also allow for direct traceability of product quality, allowing facilities to see the full scope of their process.

With accurate temperature measurement tools in place, heat treatment facilities can ensure each client’s product specifications (with traceability) while improving overall furnace performance, throughput, and more.

Benefits to the customer 
  • Validate your process for suppliers and internal quality control guidelines with fully certified and traceable software packages
  • Profile the product from within the furnace to get a perfect heat treatment recipe
  • Reduce downtime when setting up new product recipes and during service periods
  • Ensure product quality, uniformity and traceability with continuous measurement during the reheat process
  • Profile various processes with a wide range of thermal barriers, thermocouples, and software options
  • Reduce scrap and improve yield by preventing defects attributable to the way heat treatment is performed
Thermal Profiling Systems
  • Conform to AMS2750 and CQI-9 heat treatment specifications with dedicated Insight™ software packages
  • Robust and specifically designed systems to monitor product temperature across the load, including quench (gas/water/polymer) up to 1300C/2370°F
  • Up to 20 measuring points on a single TP3 logger with real-time telemetry provides clear thermal validation of the heat treatment cycle
Infrared Temperature Solutions
  • Simultaneous background temperature compensation and remote emissivity adjustment using an analog input or fieldbus communication
  • Field replacable window without recalibration with best in class 4 year warranty
  • Measurements down to 50°C (122°F) (with short wavelength Endurance 3M models

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