CX Type Die Ovens
Time to temperature is 20 to 30% faster than our standard ovens. This will reduce the number of ovens required to service each extrusion press, thereby reducing the capital required for die ovens.
Castool also offers a Multi-Contoller eliminating the existing controls on each oven. This controller also allows the die handler to open the ovens remotely, protecting him from the initial heat surge when the oven lid is opened.
RDX Remote Die Expediter
The RDX does more than robotically handle the die.
The die information is captured by scanning a bar code on the die when loaded into the die cradle. Each oven will then preheat the die to the recipe billet temperature, including a temperature offset (correction) to compensate for the die transfer time, in most cases this should be approx. 15 C.
In most cases extruders do not record the time and temperature of the die when removed from the die oven, nor the time when the first billet is extruded. This is extremely important because dies lose approx. 5 C each minute in air and 10C each minute once installed in the die slide.
Posted by: Paul Robbins
