Miscellaneous Thermal

Argon Furnace Control

System Components
  • SSi's Model 9200
  • 15" Industrial Touch-Screen operator interface
  • Allen Bradley SLC 5/04 PLC
  • SSi's 5-channel analog input modules
  • Dell inside door-mounted computer
  • Door mounted computer keyboard shelf

Flow Panel for Argon Furnace control system

Operator Interface Screen
  • Screens to be viewed
    • Furnaces 1,2 & 3
    • Alarms
    • Control Configurator
    • Alarm History
    • Trend Charts
  • Within each of the furnaces you can view
    • System Overview
    • Flows for each furnace
    • DATA (set points and process variables for each zone within each furnace)
    • Motor Switched (Start/Stop)
    • Alarms
Detail DATA from Furnace 3 (F3)
  • ZONE DATA (Top, Middle, and Bottom)
    • Actual Temperature
    • Temperature Set Point
    • Percent Output
    • Manual Control Versus Recipe or Automatic
    • Trend Charts
  • In addition you can view the different load T/C's on each of the furnace cars

Screenshot of Interface Screen

Screenshot of Zone Data
Argon Furnace Control Argon Furnace - System and Flow Panel