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Strip guiding systems Sensors

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Overview: The document provides comprehensive details on EMG Automation's strip guiding systems and sensors, focusing on their application in metal strip production and processing. These sensors ensure precise strip positioning, preventing damage and ensuring smooth production processes.
Specifications: Various sensor types are outlined, including optical, inductive, and radar-based sensors. Optical sensors offer a large sensor gap and high accuracy, inductive sensors are maintenance-free and suitable for all electrically conductive materials, and radar-based sensors provide contact-free measurement without damaging the strip or sensor.
Sensor Variants: The SMI sensor family includes variants such as SMI-SE (Standard Edition), SMI-HE (High-precision Edition), and SMI-LE (Looper-Car Edition), each tailored for specific conditions and requirements. Detailed specifications for each variant include accuracy and maximum change in width.
Operating Method: SMI sensors operate on electromagnetic induction, with transmitters and receivers detecting strip position. The system provides analogue output signals for strip edge position and includes self-monitoring features.
Additional Sensors: Other sensors like EMI, EKI, IMR, and VKI3 are designed for specific environments and temperature ranges, offering high precision and suitability for aggressive and humid environments.
Customer Benefits: EMG sensors are maintenance-free, reliable, and easy to install. They are insensitive to external influences and suitable for non-magnetic materials, offering improved accuracy and reduced strip breakage.
Technical Features: Sensors are equipped with digital control electronics, various communication interfaces, and are designed for easy integration into existing systems. The VKI3 sensor offers high precision and reliability, with integrated electronics and optional ECU control units.
Conclusion: EMG Automation provides a comprehensive range of sensor solutions for strip guiding systems, tailored to meet specific customer requirements and environmental conditions. The document emphasizes the importance of precise strip positioning and the advanced technology used in EMG's sensor systems.
EVK and EVM Sensor Systems: These systems are used for non-contact strip edge and strip centre measurement of metal strip materials. The EMG-Vivaldi® system is introduced for radar-based strip centre measurement in furnaces.
Specifications: Features include quick installation, active dirt compensation, suitability for harsh environments, protection against ambient light, and a sensor and light source distance up to 4 meters.
Operating Method: EVK and EVM devices measure changes in strip edge and centre positions using high-frequency alternating light measuring receivers, with contamination compensated by the reference measuring principle.
Applications: EVM is used for strip centre guiding on uncoilers, suitable for strip offsets up to +/- 8 mm. EVK is used for edge guiding on recoilers and uncoilers, suitable for larger strip offsets. BREIMO is an optical strip width measuring system for steel strips in continuous processes.
Technical Data: Protection type is IP 54 for EVK/EVM and IP 65 for LS 13/14, with an operating temperature of 0 to +50 °C, supply voltage of 24 V DC, and measuring accuracy of less than 1.0 mm.
EMG-Vivaldi® System: This system uses radar-based strip centre measurement with Vivaldi antennas, measuring from outside the furnace through pressure-tight walls, reducing risk of damage and offering high-quality thermal insulation and low total cost of ownership.
Performance Features: The system transmits and receives linearly polarised electromagnetic waves, operates at a frequency of 0.8 to 4 GHz, and provides high measuring resolution and stable signals.
Technical Data for EMG-Vivaldi®: It supports a minimum strip thickness of 0.1 mm, a sample rate of 50 Hz / 20 ms, centre position accuracy up to +/- 1 mm, and requires no cooling for temperatures up to +70 °C on the furnace outside wall.
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Strip guiding systems Sensors Automation GmbH Industriestraße 1 57482 Wenden Germany the right sensor for every application and environment precise and reliable compact design EMG / P-A / EMG Sensors / EN / Revision 00 / 05.2021 / Printed in Germany / Subject to modification

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EMG sensor technology ‒ the basis for an optimum strip guiding system Individual sensor solutions: Inductive sensors: For metal strip production, treatment and processing, the material - which is supplied in the form of coils - is unwound and then fed to the production process. In most cases, it is rewound into coils thereafter to allow convenient transport. Due to its geometric shape, metal strip material tends to run unevenly from the deflector rolls in the treatment line. Determining the strip centre position is the single most important goal for all strip control solutions. The strip guiding...

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Inductive strip position measurement SMI Operating method: Available variants: symmetry properties of the SMI sensor family offer an improved centre measuring accuracy as well as various possibilities to achieve your individual requirements. In this setup, two centre sensors are arranged on each strip edge at right angles to the strip pass line level and they are configured in such a way that the strip passes between the sensors as centrally as possible: Design of all SMI variants: Compact measuring frame with integrated evaluation electronics. Optionally available with a 30 m connecting cable...

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Additional inductive sensors Strip centre measuring system for use in aggressive and humid environments, such as in pickling or cleaning lines with medium temperatures of up to 80 °C. Strip centre measuring system for strip temperatures of up to 300 °C (max. ambient temperature at the sensors: 130 °C). Strip edge sensor for metal strip in areas where liquids with temperatures of up to 80 °C are sprayed or for metal strip with a overlaying protective film at a measuring accuracy of +/- 1 mm. Version: Four encapsulated coils in a tube configuration for on-site insertion (by the customer) in mediumresistant,...

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Additional inductive sensors Inductive strip position measurement in a high-temperature range: IMH2 Performance features: Customer benefits: stationary, maintenance-free measuring equipment self-supporting construction consisting of high-quality, temperature-resistant materials no cooling media necessary standardised electronics incl. CANopen interface ready-to-install construction adapted to the customer's situation simple project processing, including conversions and modifications high level of accuracy in the high-temperature range no impact from the furnace atmosphere reduction of strip breakage...

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Typical installation positions of EMG sensors in the process line with guiding sequence Actuator components Digital control electronics EMG iCON® Steering frame with integrated inductive SMI sensor Software EMG_logiCAD/32 servo valve electro-servo-cylinder hydraulic power units programmes can be downloaded via PC the settings and parameter values pre-selected via the control panel permanently stored are troubleshooting for maintenance with "logiCAD / 32 Online-Test" Inductive IMH2 sensors in the furnace Communication for system control digital inputs / outputs analogue inputs / outputs Profibus-DP...

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Inductive strip edge position measurement VKI3 Operating method: Customer benefits: EMG's VKI3 measuring device uses an inductive measuring principle with a coil system, which is designed to reliably detect the precise position of the edge of metal strip and foil material in a contact-free manner, even when subjected to the harsh ambient conditions of a rolling mill where there is a high presence of rolling oil, atmospheric pollution and dirt. On one side, the inductive EMG VKI3 measuring instrument detects the absolute strip edge position of all metallic materials as a result of the eddy currents...

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Optical strip edge / strip centre measuring systems EVK / EVM Operating method: Customer benefits: Technical data EVK/EVM: The EVK edge sensor positioning device and the EVM centre sensor positioning device are used for the non-contact strip edge and strip centre measuring of metal strip material. The device, which is highly reliable and unsusceptible to external interference, visually measures changes in the edge and/or centre position of the strip. precise and reliable measuring accuracy, as the system is insensitive to fluctuations in strip height EVM: strip centre guiding system typically...

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Optical strip edge / strip centre measuring systems EVK / EVM Alternating light measuring receiver LS: The LS 13 and LS 14 alternating light measuring receivers are designed as photoelectric edge sensors with a large measuring distance between the light emitter and measuring receiver. The alternating light eliminates the influence of DC light and thereby ambient light. The LS 13 is used as a measuring receiver and the LS 14 is used as a reference receiver. The high-frequency HF light (2 kHz) emitted by an external alternating light transmitter (e.g. LLS) is transmitted via the front lens to a...

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Radar-based strip centre measurement in the furnace EMG-Vivaldi® Operating method: A particular challenge is to measure the strip position in extreme environments, such as in annealing fur-naces. EMG has many years of experience with its IMH inductive strip centre measuring systems in furnaces with temperatures of up to 1100 °C. Despite IMH, there is often a desire to determine the strip centre position in furnaces without having any active or interfering sensor elements in the furnace itself. The EMG-Vivaldi sensor is located outside the furnace and conducts its measurements through the pressure-tight...

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Radar-based strip centre measurement in the furnace EMG-Vivaldi® Technical data: System architecture: Strip thickness Strip temperature Strip position sample rate Centre position accuracy no cooling is required for temperatures up to +70 °C on the furnace outside wall and an ambient temperature of up to +50 °C (optional water cooling) Installation position observe the required clearances to metallic parts in the furnace; the exact dimensions are dependent on the individual conditions of the line (in particular, the width of the furnace and the minimum strip width) Sensor cable The other electronics,...

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