Monday 21 November 2011

Industries and Applications

AVS furnaces are used for numerous industries and applications. Our customers may be in the medical, aerospace, body and vehicle armor, metallurgical, machine tools, mining and electronics industries. AVS furnaces are used in the production of ceramics, graphite and purified graphite, tungsten carbide, quartz, metal matrix and fiber composites. AVS furnaces have been used for vapor deposition, diffusion bonding, crystal growing, metal casting, directional solidification, densification and vacuum brazing.

Thursday 17 November 2011

Lifetime Support for ACE™

With customer-provided high speed broadband internet access and a fixed IP address, remote access to the ACE™ Control System is available to the customer for anytime access from a desktop, laptop, or smart media device to check the status of the furnace. In addition to data recording, the ACE™ Control System monitors all PLC signals to provide alarms or alerts for safety interlock controls or for scheduled preventative maintenance alerts. The same internet access along with a licensed copy of Microsoft Outlook, enables the ACE™ Control System to also send remote alerts, alarms and notifications via TEXT or E-Mail. Also where electricity consumption is tightly regulated, the ACE™ “SMART” Energy Management System has the ability to limit furnace power consumption using either a static, recipe programmable maximum kW draw, or with customer-provided signal, a dynamic maximum kW draw based on power / demand values.