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Steel Billet Cut-to-length Inspection System
Customer
Manufacturers of Primary / Secondary Steel BilletsLocation
Mumbai / JalnaApplication
Billet Cut-to-length InspectionTime/ Duration
Oct 2018, 8 weeks
Challenge
- Red hot billets in three parallel strands
- Distance between strands is about 1 meter each
- Temperature near the billets is of the order of 700 deg C
- Cut-to-length of billets ranges from 6 meters to 9 meters
- Speed of billet motion is 4 meter / min
- Cut command communication with local PLC mechanism for torch cutting or shear cutting
Solution
- High resolution high speed camera with special lenses
- Well-designed optics housing with proper protection for long distance photography
- Critical Software solution with proper on-field calibration arrangements
- Software for measurement of billet length in parallel for three strands
- Software for communicating the actual length continuously to local PLC system and feeding the Cut command as necessary for individual strand
- Closed loop feedback system with home position sensors with length measurement accuracy of 10 mm
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