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Specialty Steel Treating Control
Upgrades at East Granby, October 2011
 Super
Systems has completed a controls retrofit project utilizing
a centralized three door enclosure at Specialty Steel
Treating of East Granby, Connecticut this month, marking the
most recent partnership in a successful history between the
two companies.
Committed to incorporating innovative
solutions to its thermal processing, Specialty Steel
Treating determined that SSi’s controls and SuperDATA system
was the best technology fit for the East Granby facility.
Thirteen furnaces were integrated into the 3 door enclosure
for Specialty Steel Treating utilizing Series 9000 controls
and SCADA software, including quench timing and alarming.
“We trust the reliability and quality of the products
designed by Super Systems,” said Justin Kollmorgen, at
Specialty Steel. “The furnace controls and software for this
job were installed in about five days, which goes to show
the high level of service and dedication that Super Systems
provides.”The electrical enclosure included all the software
and controls to automate an atmosphere batch furnace line.
SSi programmable recipe controllers are being used to manage
sophisticated processes for batch integral quench and
tempering cycles. This upgrade provides the latest in
control technology with redundant data storage of process
data at the SuperDATA PC and on each controllers HMI
interface. SSi’s SuperDATA is an HMI/SCADA package designed
specifically for the heat treat market that contains a
communication module, data logging module, custom display
system, and atrend charting system.
The software features
continuous, paperless data collection, allowing for quick
access to historical and current information. For the last
decade, Super Systems Inc. based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has
been developing and manufacturing products for the thermal
processing industry. SSi’s products include probes,
analyzers, controllers, software solutions and engineered
systems. With over a hundred years of combined experience,
SSi has been addressing industry demands with technology to
aid customers tobe more efficient and to produce higher
quality products.
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Specialty Heat Treating Rolling
Out Multi Plant Upgrade with Super Systems
Technology, June 2011
 Specialty
Heat Treating is a leading provider of high
quality thermal processing serving the
automotive, aerospace,
heavy equipment, tooling, metal equipment
and metal stamping industries. Specialty
Heat Treating's mission has always been to
deliver the highest value to their customers
by investing in state of the art heat
treating technologies.
In 2010, their goal was to find a
company that could meet customer industry
and standards by providing the latest
technology to all of their customers located
in Grand Rapids, MI, Holland, MI and
Elkhart, IN. "Super Systems is well
positioned to supply the equipment and
software for all our thermal processes.
Super Systems instruments designed for a
specific process control successfully
support our heat treating equipment in four
distinct environments: Vacuum, Atmosphere,
Nitriding and Sub-Zero "explains Dean Smith,
President and CEO. "Our beneficial
experience with Super Systems in the past,
their future vision and their broad range of
services made them the best choice for us."
Super Systems 9000 line of instrumentation
and SuperDATA software, supervisory control
and data acquisition, will continue to be
implemented at each of the facilities. This
platform of controls and software enables
Specialty to deliver the highest quality,
quick turn-around time and repeatable
processes. Specialty maintains their
commitment to "high quality - on time" by
using Super Systems computerized process
monitoring and state of the art process
controls.
For the last decade, Super Systems Inc.
based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been
developing and manufacturing products for
the thermal processing industry. SSi's
products include probes, analyzers,
controllers, software solutions and
engineered systems. With over a hundred
years of combined experience, SSi has been
addressing industry demands with technology
to aid customers and to be more efficient
and to produce higher quality products.
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Flame Metals orders Aichelin Pit
Carburizing Line with Super Systems
Controls, June 2011
 Aichelin
Heat Treatment Systems, Inc. will
manufacture and install a pit furnace line
consisting of two pit carburizing furnaces,
washer, temper and quench into the Flame
Metals facility located in Rogers, MN. Each
pit furnace has a work zone which is 78" in
diameter, 90" deep and has a maximum gross
leading capacity of 30,000 lbs.
The pit furnace line will use the latest
Super Systems Inc. controls that include
CarbCALC II for online carbon diffusion,
redundant carbon probe technology, probe
plus IR compensation utilizing 4 gas
technology, programmable controls for recipe
management and SuperDATA for plant wide data
collection and furnace management.
The new pit furnace line will allow Flame
Metals to significantly expand its capacity
to carburize large components for the wind
energy market. Operations are expected to
begin spring of 2012 and Flame Metals will
then be able to take advantage of the $1.35
million Advanced Energy Tax Credit that was
awarded in 2010.
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Stack Metallurgical Continuous
Improvements- March, 2011
Stack Metallurgical of Portland Oregon
includes Super Systems inc. controls and
software as part of their ongoing continuous
improvement. Stack's commitment to quality
and service to their customer is enhanced by
the systems control infrastructure put in
place at their world class facility.
Building on a foundation of quality and
service, Stack has always felt that
equipment, controls and software managed by
good people is essential. The need for a
current software and control system from a
company that could support the long term
interest of the heat treating department was
a major factor in using SSi for the upgrade.
The instrumentation, software and professional
installation services have provided all the
necessary capabilities including turnkey
installation, training and programming. The
equipment from Super Systems includes data
acquisition for plant wide visibility,
control and reporting of the heat treatment
processes.
The instrumentation
infrastructure installed includes SSi
programmable controls for the ramp/soak
processes with event management and remote
recipe maintenance. The controls have been
deployed on heat treatment furnaces in the
vacuum, atmosphere and aluminum departments
One familiar interface across all
departments addresses simple and complex
recipes and provides the greatest
opportunity to run repeatable processes.
For the last decade, Super Systems Inc.
based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been
developing and manufacturing products for
the thermal processing industry. SSi's
products include probes, analyzers,
controllers, software solutions and
engineered systems. With over a hundred
years of combined experience, SSi has been
addressing industry demands with technology
to aid customers and to be more efficient
and to produce higher quality products.
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Bodycote Nitriding Controls
System Upgrade- March, 2011
Super Systems Inc. (SSi) of Cincinnati, Ohio
and Bodycote North America are working together on a number
of projects. One of the projects includes an automated
nitriding control system at the Highland Heights facility
outside of Cleveland Ohio. Bodycote operates an
international network of facilities serving a wide range of
industries including aerospace, defense, automotive, power
generation, oil and gas, construction, machine building,
medical and transportation, Bodycote is the world's largest
provider of thermal processing services.
Incremental investments is part of the continuous
improvement strategy at Bodycote North America that will
allow them to deliver the highest quality products to the
customers they serve. Investing in controls and
software from SSi creates operational improvements and plant
wide efficiencies.
Highland Heights has upgraded the controls on a gas
nitriding pit furnace to provide automated process control
for precise metallurgical results and to provide traceable
repeatable nitriding process. The Super Systems
nitriding system includes a complete electrical and flow
control system that provides the furnace with the ability to
run recipes for one or two stage gas nitriding cycles and
control all the necessary parameters to achieve precise
metallurgical results.
"We are very happy with the system that SSi has delivered,
"says Ron Perkins of Bodycote. "With this automation
we are able to deliver the quality that our customers have
come to expect and it provides us with the operational
improvements leading to greater efficiencies at the plant
level. The controls give us the ability to
automatically control Kn, temperature, back pressure, soak
time, gas flows and data log everything for complete
traceability."
For the last decade, Super Systems Inc.
has been developing and manufacturing the products for the
metal treating industry. SSi's products include
probes, analyzers, controllers, software solutions and
engineered systems. With over a hundred years combines
experience, SSi has been addressing industry demands with
technology to aid customers to be more efficient and produce
better quality products.
Greg DeKors appointed to Vice President of
Research and Development- January, 2011
Super Systems (SSi) of Cincinnati, Ohio
is pleased to announce the appointment of Greg DeKors to
Vice President of Research and Development. Greg has
been working at SSi for more than 8 years as part of the
Engineering group and prior to that has been involved with
developing hardware and software products for the heat
treating industry. Greg's extensive background with
technology and heat treating equipment gives him a unique
skill set that gives SSi the opportunity to deliver state of
the art products to the thermal processing industry.
"Greg is a key part of the management
team at Super Systems", explains Steven Thompson. "The
R&D group at SSi is incredibly important to our success and
Greg is the perfect person to lead this team."
For the last decade, Super Systems Inc.
based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been developing and
manufacturing products for the metal treating industry.
SSi's products include probes, analyzers, controllers,
software solutions and engineered systems. With over a
hundred years combines experience, SSi has been addressing
industry demands with technology to aid customers to be more
efficient and produce better quality products.
MTI ASSOCIATE OF THE YEAR - November, 2009
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At the
recent fall Metal Treating Institute (MTI) meeting,
Super Systems was awarded the 2009 Associate Member
of the Year award. Steve Thompson was in attendance
to accept the award. This is a very important award
for SSi since MTI represents the largest network of
commercial heat treaters in the world. The MTI
members vote annually on this award and we feel very
fortunate to have such a large group of heat
treaters express their confidence in our products
and services.
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