Application |
Forming non-ferrous tubing on a state of the art high production tube mill |
Service Conditions |
1. |
Forming
non-ferrous tubing |
2. |
Production
Rate greater than 160 meters/minute |
3. |
Twenty-four
hour six days per week production |
4. |
Scheduled maintenance every two weeks |
Problems |
1. |
Component
availability only from a non-domestic source |
2. |
Unscheduled
downtime due to random chipping of the ceramic tooling |
3. |
Tubing
defects resulting from chipped tooling |
4. |
Difficult
technical communication with suppliers |
Solution |
1. |
Replace
existing ceramic rolls with Accuratus sintered silicon nitride ceramic |
2. |
Control precision manufacture of the rolls to maximize intrinsic properties
of the ceramic |
3. |
Maintain
open communication for optimization |
Results |
|
Replacement
material does not chip. Unscheduled downtime eliminated |
|
Wear of
ceramic rolls after two weeks less than .0002” (5 microns) |
|
Production
rate raised to over 144 miles (230km) of tubing per machine per day |