Temperature control unit with touchscreen ThermalCore™

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Presentation
ThermalCore™ is a regulation and supervision cabinet dedicated to industrial infrared thermal processes. It pilots, controls and secures installations in real time, zone by zone, with degree‑level accuracy. ThermalCore™ also serves as the foundation for the ThermalCloud™ predictive maintenance solution.

Product integration
ThermalCore™ integrates into a coherent system including:

• RadiantLine™ emitters: high‑efficiency infrared emitters with fast response times.
• ThermalWorks™ ovens: systems designed to convert available power into useful, homogeneous heat.
• ThermalCore™ regulation cabinet: multi‑zone control and centralized supervision.

Main features
ThermalCore™ provides a set of functions to ensure performance, repeatability and safety:

• Real‑time multi‑zone control (pixelization) for thermal uniformity on complex parts.
• System response < 5 seconds, matching emitter response.
• Industrial touch HMI showing the oven at actual scale, dynamic color codes (10 levels), overview of cycle/consumption/temperatures.
• Real‑time power supervision and per‑zone consumption control.
• Complete cycle historization: temperature curves, applied powers, operator identification (RFID badge) and part‑level archives.
• Self‑diagnostics, sensor redundancy and integrated safety logics.
• Remote controllable and fully customizable interface validated with the client.

Safety and self‑diagnostics
Safety and diagnostic functions include:

• Integrated sensors measuring internal temperatures, solvent concentration, extraction pressure and product temperature via pyrometer.
• Redundancy and automatic comparison of values; alerts or shutdown triggered in under 10 seconds in case of inconsistency.
• Graduated alerts (indicator, audible alarm, configurable notifications by criticality).

Traceability & repeatability
Each cycle is recorded to ensure traceability and reproducibility:

• Temperature and power curves for each part.
• Operator history via RFID badge and change logging.
• Option to archive complete thermal history by reference/part.

HMI and operability
The HMI developed with automation engineers enables:

• Accurate spatial representation of the oven and single‑screen control (parameterization of 120 zones in under one hour).
• Dynamic color coding (10 levels) for quick visual assessment.
• Remote supervision from the client's system or a remote industrial PC.

Industrial benefits
Reported benefits include:

• Thermal uniformity on each part regardless of geometry.
• Reduction of rejects thanks to immediate detection of drifts.
• Maintained throughput on heterogeneous series without interruption.
• Fast operator onboarding and short training (e.g. full parameterization of 120 zones in <1 h).

Use cases and feedback
ThermalCore™ is presented with multiple industrial case studies (nuclear, aerospace/composites, industrial painting) showing:

• Fast parameterization of critical installations and drastic reduction of commissioning times.
• Control of hundreds of independent zones for 3D parts with variable thickness (composites) with certifiable repeatability and traceability.
• Continuous multi‑reference production without dead time between batches (cost‑saving and flexibility).

Characteristics / technical specifications

• Multi‑zone control: capacities advertised up to 500 independent zones (420 zones mentioned in some sections for simultaneous control).
• System responsiveness: < 5 seconds (response equivalent to emitters).
• Self‑diagnosis and sensor redundancy for anomaly detection.
• Measurements: IR pyrometers and thermal cameras for real‑time product analysis; internal sensors (internal temperature, solvent concentration, extraction pressure).
• Industrial touch HMI: full‑scale oven visualization, dynamic color codes (10 levels), rapid parameterization (e.g. 120 zones set in <1 h).
• Supervision: current cycle view, consumption per zone, temperatures; remote controllable.
• Historization & traceability: cycle recording, temperature curves, operator identification by RFID badge, process data export.
• Safety: graduated alerts and automatic shutdowns configurable according to FMEA analyses and client rules.
• International compatibility and standards: CE and UL compliance; voltages 400V to 480V; 50/60 Hz.
• Predictive maintenance: foundation for ThermalCloud™ (mentioned predictive maintenance solution).