Innovate T5 OES for an investment-casting foundry in Turkey

Challenge

• Material testing was outsourced to third-party laboratories, so composition results arrived after the melt had already been poured.
• The delay drove rejected castings and made production scheduling unpredictable.
• Trace control of C, Cr, Ni, Mo, S and P was mandatory to guarantee the mechanical performance of the castings.

What was installed

• Innovate T5 full-spectrum OES: results in about 20 seconds, ppm-level detection limits for both metallic and non-metallic elements.
• 401 mm Paschen-Runge optical bench in a vacuum optical system with independent CMOS sensors and automatic drift correction — built for the heat and dust of a casting shop.
• Multi-matrix calibration so stainless and alloy steel are analysed on the same instrument without a second unit.

Outcome

• Composition checks moved from an outside lab into the foundry, so the melt is corrected during the heat instead of after it.
• The instrument covers the full process — incoming material, melt control and finished casting — on one calibration set.
• Installation and commissioning were completed on site before the instrument went into production use.

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