Optimum Gas Burner Monitoring for No Product Rejection

Task

Lighting machine manufacturers generally require several smaller and a bigger annual maintenance on their production lines. The maintenance requires shutting down of production lines and dismantling them completely. All failures need to be fixed, broken or worn parts replaced, burners and valves refurbished and the production lines reassembled. It is only after such maintenance, that the production of rejected goods may restart. Each production phase of the renewed line must sync again, each burner must be reset at the right temperature and the entire production process must be adjusted to manufacture the best quality products. This requires not only precision but consumes a lot of time during trial and again leads to a lot of rejected goods. The time consumed and the wasted goods cost money, increase the product cost and result in competitive disadvantage in the market.

Solution

The production lines can be equipped with UTS type variable area flow meters. One UTS may be built into each gas circuit for gas burner control. Retrofitting of machines without major modification even with 10-20 flow meters is an easy job due to the small footprint of UTS and its compact design. When production line produces a perfect product, the displayed values of the instruments are recorded. Following next shutdown of production lines and before starting the conveyor-belt, all burners are set up to recorded value with the help of UTS. It takes only a few seconds to set each burner. Customer could start the continuous production in a short span of time as the quality of first finished product is already perfect. The total investment is returned after only a few maintenance cycles.