Advertising Info Contact Us FREE Product Info. Leesburg, Va. Process equipment such as heat treating furnaces, boilers, glass-melting furnaces and batch processing equipment have many parameters that require close control and monitoring to optimize performance. Hybrid control systems, such as the Visual Supervisor, offers a powerful tool for both continuous and sequential control, and features comprehensive alarm and event management including local data logging facilities. Wonderware screencapture of the main overview page of batch furnace.
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The actual process is proprietary, but the end user wanted to simulate different furnace conditions to establish the aspects of a continuous furnace. Harper built and automated a batch furnace for the customer that simulated a continuous multizone, multisection production furnace. The furnace is capable of achieving very high temperatures in a very short time. The process had to have the capability of changing various physical components and tuning parameters, together with temperature, gas flow and atmosphere composition as needed, which required a versatile, flexible control system. The customer also wanted to be able to log data from the batch to a local floppy disc with the ability to incrementally change the file of each batch automatically.