How Choosing the Right Steel Tube Process Monitoring Solution Could Improve Process Quality

 With production schedules to meet and clients to please, the steel tube manufacturing industry is more challenging than ever. The demand for thinner and stronger pipes can only mean that there is no room for errors in the production process. Defects that goes undetected can cause huge financial losses and damage in reputation to a company as these steel pipes are often used in oil and gas, construction and industrial water lines. The right steel tube process monitoring solution may be the best answer to ensuring high-quality end products.

As with any manufacturing industry, it is inevitable that the quality of the product can be compromised while it is being manufactured. For steel tubes, defects like irregular shape not only can pose safety problems but also results in wastage of raw materials. Welding irregularities are also a concern in the steel tube manufacturing industry. Such defect could cost serious safety risks to the end users. Sometimes the defects result from poor quality steel coil itself such as a bad skelp edge that results in varying yield strength that eventually affects the quality of the weld.



It is essential that these defects and anomalies be detected and addressed while they are in production and not after they are being delivered to clients. This calls for installing the right steel tube process monitoring solution to capture and analyze parameters involved in steel tube manufacturing. A sophisticated skelp edge monitoring system would be able to deliver real-time results of any damaged skelp by identifying skelp width, thickness, and other parameters.

A thermal profile welding inspection system will be handy in capturing and reporting defects in the welding process immediately. Compared to conventional systems, modern ones truly leverage on software technologies to reduce human error in an efficient manner. The intuitive visual interface and detailed reporting of these systems provide a systematic way for improving the process itself. With the cost of labor increases and the industry is getting more competitive, it will be a wise move to install a proper steel tube process monitoring solution.


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