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News Release from: Paragon Alliance | Subject: Thermotracker measuring and logging system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 October 2002
Thermal datalogging improves oven
performance
A high precision measuring and logging system benefits product quality control, productivity and minimises fuel costs in operating conveyorised or batch process ovens.
The Thermotracker is a high precision measuring and logging system for temperature profiling, which is the process of recording and analysing the temperature of products in a conveyorised or batch manufacturing process The quality and reliability of the finished product depends upon the performance of the oven, furnace or kiln and its temperature profile
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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There are three clear areas that could benefit from routine temperature profiling: Control product quality: If you have scrap piles or customer returns, then something is wrong.
If you know exactly what is happening to your products during manufacturing you can easily reduce rejects, rework and more importantly reduce product returns.
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Increase productivity: Understanding the products profile will allow you to optimise your manufacturing cycle.
By rebalancing the time and temperature ratios you will be able to increase line speed and product throughput.
Not forgetting less time spent on test runs and process set-ups allowing for a greater number of profitable production runs.
Minimise fuel costs: Rising fuel costs can significantly impact your operating budget and the simple fact is that lower costs means higher profits.
The Thermotracker gives you the information you need to make the best possible product with the highest efficiency.
In its basic form the profile can tell you how hot your product becomes and for how long.
Every product will have its optimum profile that will produce the products highest quality and reliability.
Analysing the profile will give reliable data to help you verify this, as well as prove compliance to manufacturing procedures and specifications.
Our simple to use software provides extensive logging capability and profile analysis.
The analysis function includes maximum temperature, threshold temperature and slope analysis as well as the standard zoom capability.
Also you are able to input process information onto your graphical data including zone set values, line speed, company name, product name, sensor name and location, and a photo image of the work piece.
All this data can be printed into a report format, saved to a data file for future reference or exported to a pure text file for spreadsheet analysis.
The Thermotracker package comprises a proven data profiler, a thermal shield barrier and control software providing comprehensive profile analysis.
Using the system couldn1t be easier: 1) Start the logging process with pre-set parameter settings by activating the logger.
Place the logger inside the thermal barrier and into the oven; attach the sensors to your product.
2) Run the Thermotracker through your thermal process.
3) Safely retrieve the barrier from your process and download the collected data to your computer.
View, analyise and produce reports with the Thermotracker software.
The Thermotracker accepts eight thermocouple inputs and has the ability to measure temperatures up to 1350 degC.
We can profile processes from 10 seconds to 10 days in duration and from 0.1 seconds to 1-hour sample rate.
Contact Paragon Alliance for further details of the Thermotracker Thermal Datalogging System.
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