Heating furnaces for steel hot stamping have for a long time been offered by the globally engineering and manufacturing company GHI Smart Furnaces. Hot stamping, a process increasingly used in the automotive industry allows the production of vehicle structure parts using ultra-high-strength hardened steel. This results in lower vehicle weight and better fuel consumption; it also increases crashworthiness and therefore results in higher safety standards.
Built on an engineering team with 80 years of experience and extensive expertise in product and process, GHI offers a new concept of smart furnace which combines the highest productivity specifications with minimum maintenance costs. The new heating furnace developed by GHI, introduces an innovative and disrupting technology for hot stamping that eliminates limitations usually found with hot stamping equipment such as low availability and high maintenance costs. Original technology that will help to increase the OEE GHI has developed its own innovative technology in patent process, OnStamp by GHI, for moving blanks through the furnace. This technology is based on an original system comprising a double mechanism for forward movement and elevation. The technology has been tested, used and validated in several plants by one of the global leading suppliers of hot stamped parts for the automotive sector. GHI’s deep knowledge of the product and process, together with a great effort in the development of technology, has manufactured high quality and robust equipment. OnStamp by GHI offers significant advantages over other equipment on the market. It gives high precision and repeatability in parts output avoiding mislocation and preventing unnecessary movements.
This has enabled GHI to simplify the centering table and make it more reliable. Also, the need to replace and maintain rollers is removed, which massively reduces the cost of furnace operation. All this means that high availability rates are achieved due to fewer line halts, which enables GHI customers to increase their OEE. The new furnace is available in different configurations. GHI has a range of furnace sizes which, through modular design, cover different production scales and can reach a maximum rate of 7400 kg/h, with the capacity to process batches of up to eight blanks. Plus, for the same production rate, the furnace takes up almost 30% of less floor area, since the distance between part batches is smaller and inline layout is possible. Smart Furnaces for a Smart World Right from the design stage, GHI equipment is designed to be integrated into Industry 4.0, guaranteeing its features throughout service life and ensuring compliance with automotive sector and hot stamping standards.
Onstamp by GHI is equipped with the most advanced technology, capable of transmitting more than 1,000 values per second to be analyzed by their Big Data Systems and specialized Engineers. The global rollout of the SmartFurnace solution offers GHI customers suggestions for improvements, smart predictive maintenance and assistance for using the installation. This translates into working at the highest levels of efficiency anywhere in the world, through their SAT 4.0 service.
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