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Cooperation with research
institutions opens
new horizons
KBD Engineering GmbH is a German
engineering company for construction,
development and production with ten
years’ experience and more than 80
successful projects in cooperation with
leading manufacturers. The company’s
core competence is thermal treatment
systems and their components such
as quenching stations, loading and
unloading tables or cooling beds.
Research and development is
performed in close cooperation
with the local Cologne University of
Applied Sciences – Faculty of Process
Engineering, Energy and Mechanical
Systems, and the St Petersburg
Electrotechnical University LETI from
Russia. As a result of this cooperation the
company is able to offer synchronised
facilities, and Alexander Demidko, CEO
and graduated engineer, states that
its self-programmed control software
is “absolutely peerless: all parameters
of the workpieces will be factored for
achieving the best result and the fully
automated control system includes
technical features which makes the
treatment safer, homogeneous and more
efficient. Stagnation is regression: we did
our homework and are now on course.”
The product range includes facilities
for a variety of inductive treatments: the
Batch-lengthwise system, the Batch-
crosswise system, the Swing system
and the Compact system.
The model-based control system
enables the preconfiguring of a desired
hardness, taking into consideration all
parameters such as pipe diameter, wall
thickness and material. By interacting
with the sensory devices, the software
monitors the treatment in real-time and
is therefore able to react to deviations,
trying to avoid serious breakdowns. A
remote diagnostic and maintenance tool
gives the option to check the status of the
machine or to solve potential problems
by KBD or the customer itself.
For easy tracking, a documentation
module allows generation of data sheets
for each tempered workpiece as well as
for the whole batch.
KBD Engineering – Germany
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