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Tecnar Automation Ltée
Mastering seamless tube quality: How laser-ultrasonics reshapes non-contact hot tube measurement
Introduction
In an ever-evolving economy, tube and pipe manufacturers are facing unprecedented pressure from increasing client expectation, fierce competition, and intricate, unstable supply chains and rapidly rising inflation. Internal pressure is also considerable as companies constantly look for ways to reduce costs, improve quality control and increase productivity.
Early insight changes everything
To counter this unpredictability, manu- facturers must accurately control product characteristics and quality from the first production stages.
Consider, for instance, the importance of the earlier detection of uneven heating in billets, unavoidable tool wear or of drifts in roll-stand settings. Each mill variable has an impact on the characteristics of the finished product. In the harsh environment of these mills, unpredictability lurks at every step
of the production line. Knowing about the performance at each stage of the process is crucial to controlling output quality and loss reduction. The challenge is to do so online and in real time when the tubes and pipes are hot and being formed.
Tecnar Lut 2.0 SPS at Baotou, China
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