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About Extrusion 4.0
The Ecosystem
Defect Detection
The Technology
The key features
The benefits
Success Story
D-cube and ASCONA

About Extrusion 4.0

EXTRUSION 4.O is the only solution in the world that guarantees early scrap identification, prevents unnecessary downstream processing and can be successfully applied to all aluminum industries, ensuring, for each of them, maximum production efficiency.

The Ecosystem

The EXTRUSION 4.0 Ecosystem consists of concrete solutions per production line and a unitary data collection and processing system. More specifically:

CYRUS Extrusion

Installed just a few meters from the aluminium press, allowing for inline, early and real-time defect detection and alerting.
CYRUS Powder Coating

Applicable in vertical and horizontal powder coating lines. Inline, real-time and color agnostic profile surface inspection and sorting.
CYRUS Packing

Inline surface inspection and sorting on semi-finished and powder coated aluminium profiles.
EXTRUSION 4.0 Data Management System

Cloud Industrial IoT platform, gathering surface inspection data from multiple nodes on the shop-floor. Provides historic data and surface quality smart reporting.

Defect Detection

CYRUS detects all categories of defects during the following production stages:

Extrusion
Powder Coating
Packing

The Technology

CYRUS introduces a holistic AI framework for the aluminium extrusion industry.

Different AI Layers serving defect detection from extrusion to surface treatment with high accuracy. Anomaly detection AI layer reveals complex recurring defect patterns and generates Smart Alerts for machine usage optimization, in real-time. Big data analysis results to high-level decision making, while the innovative Neural Networks are getting “smarter” though Active Learning best practices.

AI-as-a-service delivers Lean Manufacturing by reducing lead times and operating costs while improving aluminium profile quality.

The key features

The main key features of EXTRUSION 4.0 are:

Diagnostic, highly accurate defect detection using Artificial Intelligence
100% defect classification in real-time
Smart alerting to the machine operators in real-time
Remote production monitoring in near real-time through the cloud-based AI Data Management System
Surface inspection history log
Business intelligence reports for production optimization
Industry 4.0 standards compliant
Modular installation / CE Certified

The benefits

The EXTRUSION 4.0 solution guarantees:

Reduction of production, processing, and recycling costs
Early scrap detection in primary production
Prevention of unnecessary downstream processing in secondary production (powder coating, anodizing, packing)
Reduction of power consumption and CO2 emissions

D-cube and ASCONA

D-cube and ASCONA the word leader in optical profile measurement technology, have teamed up to launch an integrated product called promex CYRUS for the global aluminum extrusion market.

For orders or to express any kind of interest, please contact the sales departmemt of ASCONA

Success Story

EXTRUSION 4.0 solution has already been adopted by ALUMIL, one of the most advanced companies in the production of architectural aluminium systems, globally. Surface inspection big data gathered from multiple extrusion and powder coating lines in Greece and Serbia for production optimization purposes.

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