Industrial or laboratory furnaces, incinerators and ovens

Tender description

The University requires a supplier to design, manufacture and commission an electric furnace that will be integrated with a multi-functional open, closed and isothermal forging press and a manipulator. All equipment will be highly integrated and will require industry 4 levels of control, accuracy and repeatability in order to provide a highly instrumented system which can record and control all process inputs and outputs necessary to understand and record forging conditions within each mode of operation. The system will be installed at University of Strathclyde Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), Inchinnan Glasgow. The University requires a supplier to design, manufacture, install and commission an electric furnace that will be integrated with a multi-functional open, closed and isothermal forging press and a manipulator. The electric furnace must have a maximum internal temperature of 1 200 ºC. The proposed furnace will be loaded by a manipulator and must therefore be capable of operating in an automated mode in conjunction with the press and manipulator. The maximum pre-forged part size will be 600 mm diameter, 1 000 mm long. This material will be re-heated a number of times during processing and the final length will be circa 4 000 mm length and 265 mm diameter after processing through press cycle. The furnace should be capable of re-heating the final part geometry of 265 mm diameter x 4 000 mm long. Max part weight 1 000 kg. The furnace will be required to heat three parts simultaneously.