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Infrared Detection for the Steel Industry
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Infrared cameras save money and help produce quality steel products and save time and money by enabling routine thermal surveys of ladles, torpedo cars, and other refractory equipment and/or components, as well as the large, high horsepower motors running the finishing mill stands. Unscheduled downtime for only one of these motors can result in production losses that are estimated at $6,000 per minute.
FLIR ThermoVision A Series infrared cameras are designed to provide fast,
reliable, accurate monitoring and control. They enable steel mills
to routinely achieve and verify temperature tolerances that can’t be
achieved by any other practical means. For example, they can monitor
the entire visible surface of 8-inch thick slabs of hot steel for
temperature abnormalities as they come out of the casters. Even
small temperature inconsistencies in these slabs could indicate the
presence of holes, which could lead to production delays in the
finishing mill.
FLIR “smart” ThermoVision A Series IR cameras are
lightweight rugged, and offer a revolutionary set of monitoring and
control options. They output full-motion infrared video in real-time
(60-Hz) depending on camera versions for viewing on a monitor and/or to a video recorder. They
feature plug-and-play Ethernet and FireWire (IEEE 1394)
connectivity, so setup is fast and easy. And they provide multiple,
independent digital and analog alarming that can be generated
autonomously according to user-configured temperature thresholds or
temperature differences. Multiple users can access multiple cameras
anywhere, anytime over a LAN, WAN, or the Internet using a standard
Web browser, receive real-time 14-bit digital video output, and
remotely configure and control multiple independent target spots and
alarms. With a family of interchangeable lenses and other
accessories, FLIR ThermoVision A Series cameras provide a
complete, streamlined, turnkey process monitoring solution.
• FLIR ThermoVision infrared cameras provide affordable, fully
integrated thermal imaging and measurement solutions for process
development and optimization, industrial process monitoring, product
verification, quality assurance, and security applications. Based on
maintenance-free, uncooled, longwave microbolometer detector
technology, the rugged, compact FLIR ThermoVision A20 and
high-resolution A320 and A40 infrared cameras can detect and measure subtle
temperature differences from a distance, through smoke, fog, and
steam. Best of all, their revolutionary, powerful built-in logic and
multiple independent alarming makes them fully capable of autonomous
process control as well as monitoring.
• The FLIR ThermoVision A20, A40 and A320 infrared cameras can be easily
leveraged to control a process with LabVIEW and FLIR’s LabVIEW
Developers toolkit. This SDK allows programmers to access numerous
measurement functions that can then be used to turn the A Series cameras into a
powerful machine vision tool with a minimal investment in
machine vision software development. Or, work in your own
programming environment with the ThermoVision System Developers Kit
(SDK) based on ActiveX and Visual Basic C++. The SDK provides full
access to camera measurements and includes source code examples that
will dramatically reduce the time it takes to program a custom
solution.
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