The Tooling and Equipment Preparation Shop at the KAMAZ PTC Foundry Plant has streamlined its monitoring process for heat-treatment furnaces.

This section achieved reference status four years ago. Today, it houses a concentration of furnace, radial drilling, and abrasive cutting equipment used for hardening and carburizing processes, as well as for repairing production tooling. The product portfolio comprises over 100 items, including dies, injection chambers, sliders, and bushings. According to Elvira Akberdina, Master of the Tooling and Equipment Preparation Shop, standard operating procedures require the heat treatment operator to inspect the equipment every 30 minutes to check the temperature measurement, conversion, and regulation instruments. Notably, furnace operating temperatures can reach up to 1,025 °C. To simplify monitoring, all furnaces have been integrated into an automated process control system. While previously these metrics could only be monitored by the shop master from their office, the data is now consolidated in a single location on a dedicated computer installed directly on the shop floor. This has effectively eliminated the loss category known as "Motion" for the heat treatment operators. Additionally, two cameras have been installed on-site, allowing the shop master to monitor operations remotely from their computer.

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