WAVELENGTH MATTERS BLOG
Why Heating and Cooling Processes Are Important to Your Steel Products
We have already discussed the many different areas of the steel making processes where you should be measuring temperature. Now we will discuss why monitoring the temperature during heating and cooling processes are critical to your steel products using the hot...
Identifying Repeatable Processes to Get Consistent Coils
Steel coils can be manufactured in either the hot or cold rolling mill. Hot rolled coils are manufactured at temperatures typically above 1700°F, whereas cold rolled steel is essentially hot rolled steel that has been carefully rolled again around room temperature....
Why Identifying Manufacturing Issues Can Help Strengthen Your Quality Control Process
Steel is one of the strongest and most useful substances on earth, but during the manufacturing process it can be unexpectedly fragile. Seemingly minor variances in temperature can have vastly disproportionate outcomes in terms of the resulting product. Sometimes the...
Where to Measure the Temperature of Steel During the Manufacturing Process
In a steel mill there are many areas where temperature measurements may be made. Monitoring temperatures during the steel-making process assures the desired mechanical properties required by your customers. It is not only important that the right instruments are being...
How to Measure Steel Temperature in the Cooling Zone
The hot rolling mill is used to heat up steel products to a temperature where they can be rolled out or shaped into different products like strip, plate, rods, bars, wires, or rails. Once the steel is formed into its desired shape, it is cooled so that the mechanical...
3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Infrared Thermometer
Your business and the quality of your product depend on making precise temperature measurements, which means that accurate and reliable measurement tools are essential. Steel manufacturing requires careful attention to temperature throughout each step of the annealing...
How to Compensate for Emissivity Variation
High-quality steel products require consistent process controls at every step. In order to accurately measure temperature, you must have a way to compensate for emissivity variation. The emissivity of steel varies depending on its surface character,...
Wedge vs. Direct Pyrometer Measurement for the Continuous Annealing Line
Valid Measurement Conditions for Roller Wedge and Direct View Measurements: All infrared technologies produce accurate measures of temperature under ideal conditions. In the continuous annealing furnace, there are two issues that complicate the temperature measurement...
Viewing Through Plasma
States of Matter There are five states or phases of matter. The three most common states found on earth are solid, liquid and gas. The two less common states of matter occur at opposite ends of the temperature scale. The low-temperature state is the Bose-Einstein...
Interface Module
The Interface Module (IM) provides a remote human interface with two displays, two analog output signals, two form-C alarms, one TTL alarm, an analog input signal and digital communications capabilities. These human interfaces permit the operator to view measured...