Customer / Field / Equipment manufactuer

Production of high-performance cold- drawn tubes for hydraulic cylinders for use in earth moving machines.

Application description

In order to comply with the relevant high standards, seamless tubes undergo heat treatments in controlled chemical atmosphere. Tube position at entrance and exit of the heat treatment furnace must be checked. Sensor is installed in a suction hood.

Customer problem

[Translate to Italienisch:] Die Rohre haben einen mittleren bis kleinsten Durchmesser (30 mm). Während des Ofeneintrittes bildet sich am Rohranfang, aufgrund der Bewegung und des Saugeffektes, dichter Rauch.

In dieser stark verschmutzten Umgebung ist die Detektion durch herkömmliche Lichtschranken nicht möglich.

Previous solution / Competitor product

Tests with common light barriers from Sick and IFM had failed: smoke itself caused a light beam interruption, so that a tube tracking inside the furnace was not possible.

Proxitron solution

Thru-beam light barriers of the 600 series, with high functional reserve, and additional tube OL 21 for light beam narrowing.

Advantages compared to previous solution or competition

Having a powerful intensity, transmitter light beam can penetrate the smoke. A tube reducing the light bundle was added on the sensor head for the detection of small sized tubes (30 mm dia.); this makes it possible for small objects to interrupt a powerful light beam.

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