Some of the most important facts in a foundry are never logged. Nobody records how long a ladle waits, and microstructure ends up on a certificate. Each of these products measures something the plant couldn't easily measure before, and sends it to Foundry Twin.
Much of what decides quality happens between machines: a crane lifts a ladle, carries it, waits, and pours a series of molds. None of it is normally recorded. Floor Master measures it from video.
Done by hand, grading a microstructure is slow, and two people may grade the same image differently. Foundry Scope analyzes microscope images of cast iron and writes the standard reports.
Open Foundry ScopeGreen sand is usually tested by hand a few times a shift, so a change can pass unnoticed for hours. The Black Box takes samples and runs the standard sand tests automatically and continuously.
Preparing a sample takes several steps and a skilled technician. Place a cut specimen in the unit, and it prepares the surface, captures the microscope images and sends them to Foundry Scope.
The test stays the same, but the result is no longer copied into a register and then a spreadsheet. A plant that already owns Versatile instruments can usually connect them through the V-Sync module without replacing them.
See the full rangeDo misruns follow long waits between tapping and pouring? Does nodularity fall as the time from treatment to pouring grows? Answering those takes measured times, measured structure and the plant's records in one place.