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Live monitoring for aluminium extrusion

Press monitoring.For extrusion plants.

OEE, stops and dies, for the people running the press.

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Press 2, Shift B, Billets and stops, 03:55 to 05:33
  • Above target
  • On target
  • Below target
  • Downtime

Click a billet for its press curve.Tap a billet for its press curve.

Press 2 · Shift B

Availability
98.0 %
Performance
94.7 %
Quality
100.0 %
OEE
92.7 %

Ram pressure bar

Ram speed mm/s

Profile temperature °C

Billet length
Dead cycle
Push time
Paused
Breakthrough pressure
End pressure
Average ram speed
Peak profile temperature

Customers running Chronos

  • Al Ghurair
  • Aliplast
  • Almax
  • ALRO
  • Aluminum Insights
  • Capral
  • Cuprum
  • Delta Aluminium
  • ETEM
  • Fertinger Tubes
  • Flamia
  • G.James
  • HAI
  • Hydro
  • Kurtoğlu
  • Merit Aluminum
  • MOR
  • Shape
  • Vimetco
  • Aldeca
  • ALMAC
  • ALPROF
  • Alu Menziken
  • AWB
  • Constellium
  • Custom Aluminum Products
  • Erne Fittings
  • Extrusal
  • Final
  • Flandria
  • Gerhardi
  • HMT Höfer
  • Kalotte
  • Lingote
  • Minth
  • Reynaers
  • TPR
  • Vulcan

In production across 33 countries.

Why extruders run Chronos

What the plant gets.

  • Act now

    From operator to maintenance, everyone sees the same figures as they happen.

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  • Every billet traceable

    Every signal for every billet stays on record, for a complaint or an audit.

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  • No integration project

    Pick the signals off the control system, including the ones that exist only on your machine, and manage them yourself.

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Traceability

Traceability keeps getting more important, and it is now a requirement: a plant has to record exactly how a product was made. Chronos does that. The signals are stored at full resolution, every 100 ms, for as long as you need them.

Billet 2404:51:14

Order 24-1203Press 2

  • Ram pressure288 bar

  • Ram speed10.6 mm/s

  • Profile temperature588 °C

Billet length1,192 mmPush time104 s

Billet 24, Order 24-1203, Press 2, 04:51:14.Ram pressure 288 bar. Ram speed 10.6 mm/s. Profile temperature 588 °C.Billet length 1,192 mm. Push time 104 s. 122 s.

Optimized for extrusion plants

Detailed press monitoring.

  • Press quantities

    Billet length, butt end, ram-speed ramps, multi-push run-outs and flying cut are part of the press record.

  • Die life and history

    Die life in billets or kilograms, nitriding, die history and OEE per die.

  • No black-box OEE

    Every figure opens into the arithmetic behind it, down to the billet.

  • Quality in kilograms

    Yield from input to output mass, because extrusion is a recovery business.

Ageing ovens and casting, too.

The same system records a machine that has no standard. You choose the signals, and Chronos keeps every one of them.

Chronos dashboard for two ageing ovens: zone temperatures against the set point, time left on the cycle, and tiles for time left, time set, average temperature and temperature set.
Ageing ovens · zone temperatures and time left
Chronos signal view of a casting furnace over eight hours: metal level, exit temperature and bath temperatures, with the furnace regulation mode underneath.
Casting furnace · level, exit temperature and the bath

Results

Results from bending, milling and packing.

  • +30% OEE

    Bending machine

    In four months, mostly from shorter cycle times.

  • +27% OEE

    Milling robot cell

    In two months, once the losses in tool changing were visible.

  • +80kg / hour

    Profile packing

    From 450 to 530 kg per hour, once teams could compare how they worked.

Start with one press.

With its PLC on your local network, basic downtime monitoring runs within a few days.

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