Process control systems for industrial furnaces are a “hot topic” for us at Ohio Semitronics. We don’t make the process control systems. Rather, OSI makes the electrical transducers and power measurement and control devices needed to regulate the process control systems for industrial furnaces.
Companies that make furnace controls for either batch or process manufacturing are working hard to keep up with the growing demands from their customers to precisely control heat in their processes. What kinds of products and manufacturing processes are we talking about? Growing sapphire crystals for making LED lights which are quickly replacing fluorescent lights in homes, or manufacturing products that require quartz as a core ingredient. Sapphire crystals and quartz need to be “grown” in industrial furnaces over a prolonged period of time. Makers of glass products need reliable industrial furnaces. As do food processing companies and large bakeries.
The challenge for process control system integrators is that industrial furnaces must precisely control heat and pressure, sometimes over a long manufacturing time cycle. Reliable and accurate power measurement for industrial furnaces is critical. And virtually every need for power measurement with industrial furnaces is unique.
Companies that make process control systems come to OSI because they can get the exact current and voltage transducers they need. One application might require a Rogowski coil. Another application might require a Hall-effect transducer. With over 8,000 standard power measurement products, and the ability to provide modified-standard and custom products, OSI can provide the exact power measurement solution process control manufacturers are looking for.
Why take the chance of “hoping” what you bought online from an automation catalog website or an overseas supplier of power measurement devices will do the job when you can get exactly what’s needed from OSI? With our breadth of power measurement solutions, getting exactly what’s needed is “no sweat” when you “ask the experts” at OSI.
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