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Confidence in our applications knowledge: we know how! |
- Global expertise and experience in providing
solutions within every major Glass manufacturing sector
- Proven track record in rapidly delivering solutions
with optimum return on investment
- More than 40 years experience in control, data
management and scalable automation solutions
- Cost-effective solutions to improve the reliability
and efficiency of your processes, and the quality of
your product
- Proven experience in working and integrating with
multiple suppliers and platforms
- Specialist teams, deployed globally, with
comprehensive experience in Glass systems
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- Local spares supply and service support
- A team to work with your team, a partnership for
success
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Confidence in our applications
knowledge
The Eurotherm Glass Team understands your plant
and the business challenges you face day to day. We provide
engineered solutions for plant automation throughout the world. Our
hardware and software expertise can provide you with a solution to
match your manufacturing requirements. Our solutions save energy,
reduce gas emissions and maximize efficiency, productivity and
ultimately your return on investment.
- Experienced and dedicated, the Glass Team
specialists are experienced in all majors sectors of the
Glass industry:
- Float process
- Container glass
- Fiber glass
- Tubes/Bulbs
- Optical/Scientific
- Insulation
- Other special types
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Confidence in measured value for your money
The Eurotherm Glass Team are committed to developing
products and solutions to minimize plant operating costs,
while maximizing productivity and quality.
- Consultancy services to ensure you get exactly what
you need.
- Global and plant wide consistency – re-using
engineering to minimize costs.
- Scalable solutions – from full plant automation to a
single loop
- Rapid installation during critical hot or cold
rebuilds
- Reduced costly energy usage though advanced
monitoring, fuel switching systems, oxygen/gas control
and oxygen/fuel control
- Reduced labor costs and Standard Operating
Procedures (SOPs) through automation
- Lifetime service level agreements to protect your
investment.
- A complete range of services designed to provide you
with the best value from your system –
- System development
- Installation
- Commissioning
- Calibration
- Spares management
- Technical support
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| Glass solutions to ensure quality and lower
production costs |
Eurotherm provide engineered solutions for
glass plant automation throughout the world. Our hardware and
software expertise can provide you with a solution to match your
manufacturing requirements and maximize efficiency, productivity and
ultimately your return on investment. Our world-class accuracy of
control also reduces gas emissions to save both money and the
environment. |
Eurotherm Glass team can provide you with:
- Automation and application expertise and experience
- World-class accuracy of control
- Global deployment, local support
- Delivery of proven solutions
- Scalable solutions – from single loop to full plant
automation
- Rapid installation, during critical cold rebuilds
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What does this mean to your production
- Rapid return on investment
- Lower manufacturing costs
- Reduced labor costs and SOPs through automation
- Improved plant throughput with system redundancy
options
- Reduced cycle times and improved asset utilization
- Tighter tolerances to improve product quality and
consistency
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- Maximized efficiency and minimized production waste
and interruption
- Reduced costly energy usage, through advanced
monitoring and fuel switching systems
- Better combustion control
- Improved reversal control
- Oxygen/gas/fuel control to save the environment and
money
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Full plant process support, from conception to retirement
Why Eurotherm?
- Strategic, long-term, global partner
- A complete service. A total solution
- Quality project engineering
- Specialist-level application expertise
- World-class, scalable deployment
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What can Eurotherm do for you?
- Project specification assistance
- Fixed price and material/labor quotations
- Prime or sub-contract engineering
- Project management
- System and software design & integration
- Panel fabrication
- Acceptance testing
- Installation supervision and start-up
- Training and documentation
- 24/7 support
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Eurotherm Services
brings the benefit of proven engineering capability, domain
knowledge and control applications expertise to the support
of installed equipment and the fulfillment of new project
requirements. System Services delivers real value to the
customer, reducing downtime, smoothing start-ups, optimizing
performance, integrating functions, improving skills, and
delivering turnkey projects. |
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| Time-proven, modular, scalable control
solutions |
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From simple loop control to information
integration and plant wide DCS systems, Eurotherm can offer
scalable, modular solutions to match your application and
budget. As your requirements grow, new modules can be easily
incorporated into your system. |
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Integration is a key
part of Eurotherm’s offerings. Our products are designed to
work on multiple communication platforms with connectivity
at all levels. Where appropriate or necessary, 3rd party
integration is an established part of our solutions
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Eurotherm’s expertise in
process automation, accurate control, secure data recording
and visualization can be found at every level of our
systems. High availability (redundancy) is available to
maximize your productivity and standard function blocks are
used to minimize engineering costs. |
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| Strength through vast application
expertise... |
Batch Control
- Recipe Management
- Hopper Sequencing
- Conveyer Belt and Mixer
- Intelligent Weighing System Interface
- Control Room (DCS/PLC) Interface
- Record Archiving for Each Batch
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Utilities & Energy Management
- Fuel Selection/Optimization
- Compressed air systems
- Water supply
- Energy monitoring & reporting
- Power distribution monitoring
- Emissions monitoring
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...spanning all glass types |
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Strength through wide-ranging application experience |
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Our range of application experience could help
you to increase productivity and lower costs. All of our
solutions into the Glass industry are flexible and scalable to
suit the process exactly. |
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Furnace Control
Glass manufacture requires
a high level of accuracy and reliability in the
control of the furnace to achieve consistent glass
quality, to avoid energy losses and to keep
emissions within legislated boundaries. Reliability
is particularly important at critical stages in the
process such as the Furnace Reversal. Eurotherm’s
T2550 PAC is designed with integral redundancy and
is synchronized to a real time clock to ensure that
this process can be managed safely and efficiently. |
- High availability with dual redundant
processors
- World renowned accuracy of control
- Continuous, precise glass level control
- Cross-limiting lead/lag combustion control
- Fuel flow/ratio control
- Oxygen trim
- Fuel switch over control
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Tin Bath and Roof Heating
The bath is the
forming part in a flat glass production process
where it is taken from the furnace spout at 1100ºC
and leaves the bath at 600ºC when it is solid. While
in the bath the glass travels through heating, fire
polishing and cooling zones. Modern flat glass
systems require precise temperature control for
these multiple zones. Eurotherm’s control systems
provide combustion or
power control with
multi-parameter influence. |
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Annealing Lehr
Glass enters the annealing
lehr at about 600ºC, at which temperature it can
support its own weight but still has many internal
stresses. Annealing lehrs have several temperature
control zones through which the glass is warmed and
cooled. These must be properly monitored and
controlled for consistency and quality of the glass.
This cooling process is critical for the maximum
yield of finished glass. |
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Bushing Temperature Control
Glass fiber
manufacture requires a high level of accuracy and
reliability to achieve a consistent quality in the
fiber produced.
Eurotherm’s bushing temperature control application
has been specifically designed to control
temperature cycling in glass fibre manufacture and
has been shown to bring:
- Increased efficiency
- Improved recovery time
- Increased availability and productivity
- Setpoint depression and ramping – allowing
control of the temperature profile during a
production cycle
- ‘Cold bushing’ protection – preventing
thermal shock to the bushings in the event of
operational or mechanical failure
- Better than 1ºC resolution
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- Multi-zone temperature control
- Easy monitoring with local and central HMI
solutions
- Heat-cool
- Speed control
- Setpoint changes and control stability to
0.5ºC in a range of 0-2000
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Electrical Motor Control
Throughout the
glass industry electrical motors are used in raw
material transport, in exhaust gas handling, in
glass forming, in annealing, in cutting and many
more applications. Speed, torque and position are
critical process parameters in obtaining quality
products and should be controlled with high accuracy
and reliability.
For speed and motion control
Eurotherm supplies the complete systems including the motors, AC DC or servo
drives and electrical cabinets. Eurotherm is particularly well known for its
expertise in synchronizing speed and torque in multiple motor applications such
as top roll control in a tin bath, or squeezing roll and unwind control in the
rolled wired glass process. |
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- Open or closed loop vector control
- Wind/unwind control
- Speed or torque synchronization
- Top roll control
- Squeezing roll control
- Conveyor control
- Cooling fan control
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Windscreen Forming
Windscreens are formed
by feeding flat sheets of glass through a tunnel
furnace. Each sheet is carried by a very precise
mould. The temperature rise will soften the glass
and gravity will let the glass take the form of the
mould. The tunnel furnace has a temperature
controlled pre-heating zone and an electrical power
controlled forming zone. The thermal energy from
metallic resistor elements or from medium wave
infra-red elements is transferred to the screen in a
combination of air-heating and infra-red emission.
The forming zone has always been divided in hundreds
of sub-zones. With the car industry demanding more
and more tightly banded tolerances and introducing
more complicated forms and shapes such as top roofs
the number of sub-zones is increasing rapidly.
Complete Eurotherm temperature
control, power control and supervisory systems for windscreen forming are in
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- Accurate multi-zone temperature control
- Accurate open or closed loop power control
- High packing density of power controllers to
reduce cabinet and floor space
- Advanced single cycling for infra-red
elements, eliminating DC components
- Power controller setpoint transfer and
monitoring by digital communication, reducing
the I/O requirements of the control system
- Feed through control
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