A Case in Point

A European cast aluminum product manufacturer needed a customized solution to measure the temperature of molten aluminum.

Problem

The customer previously used temperature probes but they had a very short life and in calculating the end-of-year costs of the sacrificial probes in addition to the frequent down time required to replace the probes the company's purchasing and engineering departments realized they needed a cost-effective and technically efficient solution.

OMEGA Solution

OMEGA proposed a customized non-contact infrared system solution which incorporated a specialized installation technique that allowed the temperature to be measured via an infrared sensor mounted so that it "looks" into the open end of a pipe within the molten aluminum container. The sensor is wired to compatible OMEGA instrument system which now controls the entire molten aluminum bath.