Why Eurotherm?
Eurotherm is a solutions provider that specializes in improving performance and efficiency of Heat Treatment process plants in regulated and non-regulated industries.

• Global Experience in providing discrete and integrated product solutions for Heat Treatment
• Proven track record in providing systems to give excellent return on investment
• More than 40 years experience in control, data management, and scaleable automation solutions
• Improving the reliability and efficiency of your processes by providing scalable and cost effective solutions throughout their life cycle
• Proven experience of working with a wide range of suppliers and system platforms

• Specialist teams with comprehensive experience in Heat Treatment applications and the regulatory demands of Aerospace and Automotive industry
• Global expertise, local supply and support
• A team to work with your team
• A partnership for success

Eurotherm understand the technical nature of the heat treatment processes and use this knowledge to bring wide-ranging benefits with their solutions.

• Global installed base across all industry sectors
• World-renowned control and performance
• From simple discrete to applied automation solutions
• Flexible yet secure, Heat Treatment specific process recipes
• Guaranteed profile compliance with Heat Treatment specific control features
• Process and Process Plant diagnostics
• Energy control and efficiency solutions

In recognizing that many processes take place in a continuously audited environment, products and solutions are designed to include benefits for most known industry regulations.

• Secure process data management, recording, reporting and batch management
• Long term archiving and retrieval of data built into the design
• Authorized and audited levels of access control
• Proactive response to the continuing demands of changing regulation
• Built in regulatory features for Nadcap and other industry standards

Eurotherm are committed to developing products and services specifically for the Heat Treatment industry, continually minimizing cost while maximizing your productivity.

• Consultation and projecting services to ensure you get exactly what you need
• Reusable engineering
• Solution upgrade paths
• Commercial and technical alliance partnership for customers seeking control system consistency across their whole business
• Complete life cycle support and range of life time service
  • System design and build
  • Installation
  • Commissioning and plant optimization
  • Accredited calibration
  • Thermal Uniformity Surveys (TUS)
  • Spares management training and technical support

Some of the benefits you receive from a Eurotherm solution:

• Secure recipes with profiles, designed to meet metallurgical process requirements
• World-renowned algorithms providing automatic control stability

• Special control optimization techniques to allow equipment to be used over the widest of temperature ranges with highest variability of work piece loading
• Cut back control features to ensure overshoot elimination for step changes

• Work-piece thermocouple control routines for mixed and variable load sizes

• Specialist function blocks for many heat treatment applications including
  • Vacuum furnaces
  • Sealed Quench and other atmosphere controlled, batch and continuous furnaces
  • Specialist retort furnaces
  • Multi-loop applications
  • Creep test furnaces
  • Laboratory applications

• Override control algorithm for simple thermal head applications
• Cascade control for deep-shallow temperature control on retorts and complex furnace loadings
• Direct interface with vacuum sensors and other non linear gauges with scientific notation and logarithmic displays
• Power or energy density control routines
• Load sharing and load shedding techniques for electrical installations
• Energy monitoring
• Remote and low cost supervisory control solutions
• Heat Treatment specific displays with secure audited access for Operators, Engineers, Laboratory Personnel and Management

• All Products are manufactured and tested to ISO 9001:2000 and TickIT Guide Issue 5
• Data management products, which meet industry regulatory specifications
  • Secure Data storage
  • Tamperproof files
  • Networked and local file management
  • Secure and automatic routines for file data transfer
  • Calibration accuracy and resolution to AMS2750
  • Remote viewing facility
  • Batch data entry

• Routines to support long term archiving and retrieval of digital data including review software for encrypted files
• Export of data to common applications for replay in human readable format while still preserving core proof data
• Supply of calibration certified products and solutions to National Standards and the requirements of Nadcap
• On site calibration services to National Standards for System Accuracy Tests
• On site Thermal Uniformity Surveying of thermal processing equipment

• On-site service for improved furnace performance and optimization
• Customer reports

• Audit trail and individual password protection giving defined level of secure control system access
• Guaranteed recipe revision control
• Client material test data embedded in stored data reports
• Selected recipe embedded in stored data file

Eurotherm has a range of products and services designed to meet the audit regulations for heat treatment. Regulations fall into two main categories and Eurotherm provide solutions to meet both requirements.

• Prescriptive quality systems such as the Aerospace Industry standard Nadcap
• Company quality manual processes such as the Automotive Industry Standard QS9000 and TS16949

Nadcap
Aerospace is increasingly becoming audited under the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap). For Heat Treatment, Nadcap has specific audit requirements covered in AS7102 and the audit criteria AC7102. Eurotherm are committed to helping customers achieve the demands of this specification and the associated Thermal processing specification AMS2750 Rev D.

• Incorporation of Nadcap requirements into product design for Control Instrumentation and Data Management equipment to aid compliance
• Incorporation of user routines into Control Instrumentation and Data Management products to aid systems accuracy test (SAT) compliance
• World renowned control algorithms to aid accurate performance against defined thermal profiles
• Special routines to eliminate thermal overshoot and achieve guaranteed thermal soak times
• Soft-wired control solutions to accommodate workload thermocouples monitoring
• The provision of equipment and services to aid temperature uniformity surveys (TUS) to nationally accredited standards
• Secure local and remote data recording at every level, local and plant-wide
• Routines for recipe revision control and recording of selected recipe profile against actual furnace performance
• Special routines and input types to support accurate control of furnace vacuum and atmospheres

Electronic Records

• Secure process values and setpoints (including audit trail for alarms, events, operator actions, recorded logins, operator notes and electronic signatures)
• Protection of data through binary compressed and check summed records
• Batch entry details embedded in process data records

• Accurate time stamps against automatic Time Synchronized clock source
• Secure data archiving with automatic file backup and transfer to aid long term data archiving routines
• Provision for electronically copying data for archive
• Export facility allowing viewing of secure records in human readable format
• Remote channel access to record loaded recipe, setpoint profiles, and furnace atmosphere

Electronic Signatures

• Control and Data Management equipment protected by secure password routines
• All actions can be configured to require password entry or operator sign in
• Audit trail and password features are available to log actions and prevent unauthorized control system use
• Support for electronic signatures

ISO9000 and ISO/TS16949

For many years the Automotive industry have worked in an environment of continuous process improvement. The quality standard ISO/TS16949 is increasingly being used by the worlds major Automotive companies.

Confidence in the performance of thermal processing equipment, and sure knowledge of the security of process records, leads suppliers to define clear procedures into their quality manuals and improvement systems.

Eurotherm builds accuracy, performance and consistency into their systems, to ensure that customers can have complete confidence in their heat treatment equipment.

• Sealed Quench Furnaces with Atmosphere Control
• Vacuum Furnaces
• Pit Furnaces
• Specialist Retort Furnaces
• Gas Retort Annealing Furnaces
• Creep Test Furnaces
• Continuous Mesh Belt Furnaces
• Bell or Tophat Furnaces/Rotary Hearth Furnaces
• Diffusion and Diffusion Bonding Furnaces

Eurotherm have wide experience in building application specific function blocks. Our soft-wired products give complete flexibility to build and integrate customer specific benefits into both simple and complex solutions.

• Case Depth Diffusion Control
• Carbon Potential
• Combustion Control
• Oxygen and Dewpoint Control
• Vacuum Sequencing

• Load Management
• Power Steady State Control Algorithms
• Work Thermocouple Optimization Routines
• Report Generation
• Automatic Tuning and Furnace Control Optimization Routines

• Shop floor automation
• Furnace mimics and screen navigation
• Temperature programming and control
• Atmosphere programming and control
• Quench programming and control
• Batch management
• Furnace sequence control
• Recipe control and recipe management
• Program management
• Data management

• Reporting
• Power control and energy management
• Furnace diagnostics
• Time synchronization
• Mathematical functions
• Scientific notation
• Optional redundancy

Specialist Probes

Carbon Potential, Oxygen and Dewpoint Applications newsletters

• Power Thyristors 1,2 & 3 Phase 15Amps – 4000 Amps
  • Resistive loads
  • Silicon carbide heaters
• Complex Heater Materials:
  • MoSi2
  • Graphite
  • Molybdenum
  • Tungsten
  • Transformer coupled heater loads
  • Shortwave and medium-wave infrared heaters
• True power control devices
• Energy Monitoring products
  • Energy scheduling and load shedding solutions