Process Monitoring

SLIDEMATIC provides complete real time process monitoring of all production.

Process Control Monitors
Slidematic has designed and built our own computerized process control monitors (PCM). These monitors aid the operators in the production processes. The PCM units monitor die block sensors in our cold heading equipment. Each forming blow is analyzed for a change in the process. When good parts are being made the process is very predictable and repeatable. Therefore the PCM units can "Learn" what a good parts forming blows should look like and then set limits for the rest of the job. If the part is not within these limits the machine can be safely shut down and the operator alerted.

Trends
If one part goes out of the limits the machine will be shut down, but what happens when the process change is so small that the limits are not exceeded? The PCM takes this into account also. A secondary tightened set of limits is also used. If a small number of consecutive parts are all outside of the new tightened limits then the machine will also shut down.

Benefits
Increased productivity
Increased quality of parts
Decreased material scrap
Decreased tooling costs.
Decreased machine maintenance costs