PRODUCTS & EQUIPMENT
Zumbach Electronics equips Štore Steel d.o.o. Hot Rolling Mill with new Profile Measuring System
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umbach Electronics of Switzerland won a contract from Štore Steel d.o.o. in Slovenia for a PROFILEMASTER SPS 400- S4, an accurate in-line profile measuring system, based on laser light section technique and machine vision. The system will be integrated
into a hot rolling mill, helping to increase the efficiency of the mill and to assure best product quality.
Štore Steel is producing
various round and flat steel products for the forging, spring and engineering industries. As a respected steel producer, Štore Steel is modernizing their in-line measuring systems in order to gain better and faster control over their production process. A significant efficiency increase is expected by shortening start-up time and reducing down-time. The ordered PROFILEMASTER®
system provides continuous dimensional measurements as well as surface fault detection. The sophisticated, engineered construction and the conditioning features of the PROFILEMASTER® SPS 400-S4 ensures highly stable and reliable measurements. The commissioning is planned before the end of 2016. For the measurement and
control in the cold finishing process, Štore Steel additionally ordered a non-contact measuring and control system from the well known Zumbach ODAC®—USYS product line.
Štore Steel ‘s choice for non- Left: PROFILEMASTER® SPS 400-S4 measuring unit
SPS400-S4 is equipped with state- of-the-art technology for full profile measurement and surface fault detection. The system is equipped with four high speed
camera/laser modules capturing the full contour of the hot rolled profile. Scanning the product with up to 500 full contours per second, the measuring
contact measuring technologies from Zumbach is justified by the good experience over many years using Zumbach instruments in their production lines, the state-of-the-art technology as well Zumbach’s after sales service.
Treating pipe repair headaches
One of the best things about winter being over has to be waving goodbye colds and sniffles, putting runny noses and chesty coughs firmly behind you. You can leave the house without being weighed down by four packets of tissues, cold and flu remedies and emergency painkillers.
But just as you think it’s all over, there’s a sudden cold snap or you’ll hit that soul destroying week where everyone has a ‘summer cold’ and you’re left wishing you’d hung onto an emergency pack of tissues. The same is true of pipe repair, as Peter Crossen, VP of NCH Europe’s
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Maintenance and Partsmaster Innovation Platform explains. Navigating the traditional options when it comes to pipe repair can be even worse than choosing from the overwhelming selection of cold and flu remedies. For instance, you can opt to keep your operations online, managing the leak while you wait for a scheduled break in production. Of course, this increases ongoing health and safety management requirements as well as the risk of catastrophic failure. Option number two would be shutting down operations immediately and completely replacing the pipe. However, such unscheduled
downtime will result in loss of production and potential disappointed customers. Whichever avenue you choose, once the problem is handled it is easy to put worries about further leaks out of your mind. However, leaks will happen without warning and the best way to reduce stress the next time around is to think like a Scout and be prepared with a pipe repair kit stashed away, like the emergency paracetamol in your desk drawer.
However, some pipe repair kits on the market can be large and unwieldy, often also requiring measuring equipment to ensure ingredients are mixed to exacting
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instructions or expensive cartridge systems with wasteful mixing nozzles. This makes them cumbersome to store and await the next leak, as well as being tricky to use when the time comes.
This is where compact repair solutions, such as NCH Europe’s Mega Pipe Repair HD range, come in very useful. Epoxy stick repair kits are easy to carry around, store and prepare, and pipe repair bandages or stretch and seal solutions require minimal preparation. In the case of the latter,
bandages can even be applied directly over the leak while the
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