Leading the way in Innovation and Solutions for Heat Treatment Furnaces

By combining automation and process control knowledge with validation expertise and world class specialist products, Eurotherm are able to offer an extensive range of the most cost effective Heat Treatment solutions.

Visit our dedicated Heat Treatment site at www.eurotherm-heattreatment.com.

Eurotherm is committed to developing products and services specifically for the Heat Treatment industry to enable the continual reduction of costs, while maximising productivity.

Serving the diverse demands of heat treatment applications

Eurotherm is recognised for its expertise in working with both end users and process equipment suppliers to produce advanced solution systems.

A successful history in supplying scalable automation solutions

Eurotherm has over 40 years of history in providing

scalable system solutions to a large and expanding

customer base. Our solutions are designed to meet the business needs of our customers by applying wide ranging control systems knowledge to the critical factors identified by our customers that will help to ensure that they remain successful and competitive in a demanding manufacturing world.

Applications:

Vacuum furnaces
Sealed quench and other atmosphere controlled, batch and continuous furnaces
Pit furnaces
Specialist retort furnaces
Gas retort annealing furnaces
Creep test furnaces
Bell or tophat furnaces / Rotary hearth furnaces
Diffusion and Diffusion Bonding Furnaces
Laboratory applications
Energy Management Solutions

Increase process efficiency

Helping to improve customers cost of production through:

Optimising the process and equipment usage.
Optimising energy usage.
Reducing waste through increased accuracy of control and specialist control algorithms.
Curtailing rework and reducing scrap by improving consistency and repeatability.
Increasing plant availability using Eurotherm’s plant proven reliable control systems.
Reducing and eliminating paper trails by utilising the extensive data management, archive and reporting facilities.
Enhancing personnel productivity with a structured view of plant operation and training.

Reduce cost of ownership

Eurotherm’s control systems are designed to provide the best value for our customers by reducing plant downtime and maintenance costs, by:

Ensuring increased equipment availability through the use of products with high MTBF, redundant control strategies, online re-configuration and hardware ‘Hot Swap’ capability.
Utilising up-to-date proven technology designed to international standards with the future firmly in focus.
Offering total life cycle support including commissioning, training and on-site support service.
Phased migration from legacy systems.

Improve product quality

Achieve marketplace leadership through quality and customer satisfaction by:

Decreasing the risk of human errors with secure recipe management systems and advanced control strategies.
Improved, more demanding, quality tolerances by application of process diagnostics and process modelling.
Out-of-specification product identification, with automatic alerts.
Improved information flow with seamless integration to business systems.

Providing vertical integration

At Eurotherm we understand that our control systems form an important part of our customers demand for overall business efficiency. Systems are designed to include, or be part of, the integration of the shop floor automation and the business scheduling systems to provide access to:

Information transfer systems via relational databases and secure historic data files.
Business systems with Enterprise Resource Planning systems, such as SAP.
Manufacturing planning systems (MRP, MRP2).

Meeting legislation and regulatory requirement

Eurotherm recognise the importance of legislation and accreditation in Heat Treatment.

Our control systems are designed to facilitate regulatory compliance at all levels of the solution, by:

Working within the audited environment of Nadcap, TS16949 and other industry specifications.
Comprehensive secure data management solutions that assist customers’ needs for long-term traceable provenance of their products.
Eliminating guesswork and making more accurate and timely decisions to improve safety.
Providing tighter control to lower emissions and provide cleaner effluent.