When to charge again?
The scrap is melting and the burners are firing. A live view inside the furnace shows operators the right moment to add the next charge, with the door kept closed.
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See inside your furnace.
In real time. Door closed.
Air-cooled camera systems give aluminium cast houses a permanent live view of scrap pile, bath, burner flame and refractory. Our AI turns that picture into decisions for operators and machines.
150+installations in aluminium remelting furnaces
10+ yrsour first camera is still delivering a live view today
4furnace types, from reverberatory to decoater
24/7live view, recording and automatic alerts
Why in-furnace vision
Every unnecessary door opening costs energy and time
A furnace loses radiant heat within seconds once the door opens, and it takes about three times that energy to recover. Seeing inside without opening changes how a cast house runs.
Keep the door closed
Judge scrap pile, bath level and dross from the control room instead of walking up to the furnace.
Protect operators
No exposure to radiant heat, splashes, fumes or floor traffic in the casting area. The view is on the screen.
Shorter cycles, higher melt rates
Charge, level and skim at exactly the right moment, cycle after cycle, shift after shift.
From picture to decision
Neural networks analyse the video stream and send results to charging machines and your process control system.
Camera systems
One camera system, many furnace types
Air-cooled, retractable and built for the harshest environments in the cast house. Choose the furnace you run.
Reverberatory melting furnace
Scrap pile, burner flame, dross, circulation, metal level and refractory in one view.
Multi-chamber furnace
Watch the ramp, the shaft and the flow between the chambers.
Tilt rotary furnace
Follow the tumbling scrap and keep dust and fume inside the barrel.
Decoater technology
Check material flow and coating removal live in the kiln.
The camera system
Air-cooled. Retractable. Made for hot furnaces.
Live view
Mounted on the furnace wall, commissioned in a day
Our engineers arrive once the mechanical installation is complete. In most cases in-furnace vision becomes reality on day one of commissioning.
- Air-cooled optics, no water anywhere near molten metal
- Pneumatic retraction system protects the camera when it is not needed
- Zoom, time-lapse and recording for troubleshooting and training
- Interfaces to charging machines and process control systems
Install
A camera port in the furnace wall, the camera on its retraction unit, air and power. Compressed air does the cooling, and the furnace process stays as it is.
See
A continuous live stream to the control room, the scrap bay, the office or even the wheel loader. Multiple furnaces on one screen.
Act
Operators charge, level and skim at the right moment. Smart applications trigger machines and alerts automatically.
Smart applications
The camera that makes decisions
Beyond visual monitoring, Fioscope cameras run neural networks on the live picture and hand the result to the machinery.
Scrap heap detection
Knows when the pile has melted down and the furnace is ready for the next charge.
Flat bath
Detects a flat bath surface and releases the next process step.
Smart skimming
Guides the skimming machine: blade depth and dross versus metal.
Tap out alerts
Sends a text message the moment a tap-out port starts leaking.
Footage
Straight from inside the furnace
Real footage from customer installations. Click a clip to play it.
Insights
Latest from LinkedIn
We post new in-furnace footage and lessons from installations almost every week.
Six furnaces, one clear view
A compilation of Fioscope air-cooled cameras inside six different melting furnaces: real-time insight into energy use, cycle times, combustion and refractory condition.
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Complete visibility across a multi-chamber furnace
Monitor each chamber, decide faster when to add material or skim, and cut unnecessary door openings: live views for operators of multi-chamber furnaces.
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