TPT July 2020

T E CHNOLOG Y

IMS introduces its surcon 3D Tube EXPERT in measuring systems IMS Messsysteme GmbH has introduced its latest high quality inspection tool. The 3D surface inspection system ‘surcon 3D Tube’ enables tube manufacturers to detect surface defects at a much earlier stage of the rolling process than before and to counteract them early and effectively through concrete corrective measures. IMS Messsysteme said: “A prerequisite for the economical and future-oriented production of pipes is specific knowledge of the production process. “In particular, these are the product properties after each of the typical three forming stages. Only through precise, reliable and durable measuring equipment can the ever- increasing demands on the finished product ‘tube’ in terms of uniformity and adherence to low tolerance limits be met while saving energy and raw materials, which require a high degree of process reliability.” These objectives are always the continuous recording and storage of all measured values, production parameters and system events as well as feedback of the measured values to the pre-control and/or tracking of the control equipment of the rolling units. Support is offered to the operator by targeted fault diagnosis and the high availability of the measuring system. In tube production, surface defects are often perpetuated through the complete process chain. Non-stop surface inspection from bloom to finished tube is therefore critical for the quality of the final product. “The three-dimensional information on the spatial extent of the defects enables far more reliable decisions to be made on the extent to which a surface defect can still be tolerated or whether immediate intervention in the production process is necessary. “In addition, the 100 per cent surface inspection ensures that immediate knowledge is available as to whether a detected defect occurs once, recurs several times on a tube or at the same length position from tube to tube – information that is almost impossible to determine reliably by manual inspection.”

IMS Messsysteme GmbH www.ims-gmbh.de

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