Steel Industry |
Case Study: Management of forged products through
heat treatments using HEATPROOF tags
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Object | Steel Forged product |
Steel industry | Attach tag at temperatures from room temperature to 800℃ →Heat treatment ( 1100℃ x 18hours ) |
Case5 | HEATPROOF HP-L90 |
Customer’s request
- Improve product tracking
- Eliminate misidentification of products
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Initial Process Management
Marking by hand with heat resistant chalk
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Hand writing on forged products using heat resistant chalk
Hand marking with heat resistant chalk
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Forged product is produced but may require additional forging processes
Hand marking with heat resistant chalk
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Marking can be lost on final product after cutting work
Process Issues
- Marking is necessary after each heat treatment
- Product is incorrectly identified or hand writing is difficult to read. This leads to identification errors.
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Heat treatment cycles may cause the hand
written mark to be illegible.
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Product misidentification can easily occur
HEATPROOF Solution
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1 | Provide product identification which will survive all processes. |
2 | Eliminate identification errors |
3 | Utilize barcode scanners to verify product identification and eliminate human reading errors. |
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HP-L90 tags can be stud welded, spot welded, or nailed to steel products for heat treatments or repeated forging
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Completion of half-Finish products
HP-L90 tag survives multiple reheat cycles avoiding the need to re-identify products
→ Remarking is not necessary.
→Accurate product tracking through
complete process by using HP-L90 tag with scanable barcodes
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Final product after cutting work
→HP Tag is detached at final process.