NEWS (fairs and exhibitions, recent achievements... )
FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS
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Sponsored by the American Foundry Society (AFS) and the North American Die Casting Association (NADCA), CastExpo represents the single largest trade show and exposition in North America for metalcasters and industry suppliers. Held every three years, CastExpo attracts thousands of decision-making metalcasters from around the world, all of whom are looking for the latest advancements in equipment, technology and services to use in their own facilities.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 17-20, 2008
For more information:
www.castexpo.com
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Do
not fail to visit
SERT
booth 3144
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At
CastExpot'08, on booth number 3144, SERT Metal will exhibit their
expert solutions for total iron control. |
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Total iron control, from pouring to knock-out. As a partner
of foundries since 1995, SERT offers a range of innovating solutions
for iron control on horizontal or vertical moulding plants,
which contribute to improve productivity and quality, increase
yield rate, and supply total traceability.
Either
for new automation projects or for machine upgrade, SERT works
with you on the following applications:
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Automatic mould pouring with stopper, pouring
machine positioning, nozzle cleaning, refilling detection,
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Mapping and follow-up of the moulds,
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Measurement and control of pressure furnace,
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In-stream temperature measurement,
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Inoculation
control,
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Cooling
control.
SERT systems are provided with performance guarantees and investment
payback estimation. Come and visit our booth !
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RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
ON FERROUS FOUNDRY POURING MACHINES
MAGOTTEAUX Group confirms their confidence in SERT solutions
MAGOTTEAUX THAILAND:
Mid-2007, MAGOTTEAUX has placed an order with SERT to automate a new pressure pouring furnace to be installed in MAGOTTEAUX Nongkae (Saraburi Province, Thailand).
This furnace will feed a Disamatic 2013.
Automation includes:
- automatic and manual pouring furnace positioning with MAGELLOR
- automatic front channel level / furnace pressure control with LaserNum & Presstrol
- UCERAM automatic mould pouring control with OptoNum twin cameras, adaptive controller and
- DEM MQS high precision electric stopper driving
- UCELOG data storage and analysis software
This order follows a first order placed with SERT in March 2007 for the same plant to revamp the front channel level control system, on another Disa line, including:
- LaserNum level control sensor
- HMD furnace refilling detection sensor
- PLC based controller
- New pneumatic circuit
MAGOTTEAUX BRAZIL:
MAGOTTEAUX Foundry in Contagem, MG, Brazil, placed an order with SERT in April 2007 to implement full automatic mould pouring control on its pressurized furnace. This order is complementing the Teach-In based automation installed in 2006 by SERT.
The additional equipment includes:
- OptoNum twin camera sensor, hardware and software to achieve automatic mould pouring
- MAGELLOR automatic positioning of the pouring furnace
MAGOTTEAUX group experienced SERT UCERAM automatic mould pouring system for the 1st time in 2005.
With this new order, there will now be 4 Disamatic lines in Magotteaux group (1 in Belgium, 1 in Brazil and 2 in Thailand) operating with SERT automation on pressurized pouring furnace
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
ON I&S CONTINUOUS CASTING MACHINES
Order for automatic mould level control at NUCOR Tuscaloosa
(U.S.A.)
SERT automatic mould level control solution will soon be
implemented at NUCOR Tuscaloosa, in the U.S.
Caster
type: 1-strand slab continuous casting machine
Equipment
supplied and commissioned by SERT:
in-line electric stopper driving DEM9M-MQS120M
advanced controller UCN and DASCO data acquisition system.
Equipment to be
commissioned in 2007.
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Focus
on DEM9M-MQS120M electric stopper driving
After 23
years of performances improvements with DEM9C, DEM9B electric
servo-actuator, and then MQS120 high precision stopper guiding
system, casters are now offered the top performance design with DEM9M-MQS120M.
The DEM9M-MQS120M is made of
an in-line mounting between the MQS120M stopper guiding system
and the DEM9M.
Main advantages are:
- coupling without
play (backlash) to improve stopper position/flow control
- in-line mounting
to reduce mechanical flexion
- fewer components
and strong design (benefit to system reliability)
- optimal design for
highly dynamic dither
- only 13kg actuator,
light and easy to mount and dismount at operator level
This design,
commissioned the 1st time in 2003, is now implemented
on more than 25 strands of continuous casters and demonstrates
important improvement on level control quality. It is available
with different variant to cope with different casting machine
situations.
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SOME OTHER NEWS
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION
Detail
available upon request
ISO 9001:2000
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SERT has achieved ISO certification:
the Quality Management System
of SERT METAL has been approved by Lloyd's Register Quality
Assurance
to the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System standards.
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