Our experience covers the entire spectrum of glass manufacturing, including:
  • Forming
  • Furnace Control
  • Gauging
  • Packaging
  • Batch House Audits
  • Energy Monitoring
  • Vibration Controls &      Analysis
  • Mechanical & Machine      Services
  • Layer & Thickness      Measurements
  • Automation &      Instrumentation
  • International Experience:
  • Mexico
  • Venezuela
  • Canada
  • Europe
  • Japan
  • Taiwan
  • China
  • Energy Monitoring:

    Optimation provides plant-wide energy management with off-the-shelf SCADA packages to replace costly proprietary solutions.

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    Optimation has a long-standing tradition of supplying core services to glass manufacturers for batch and material handling. With a base of over half a century of experience and hundreds of man years of technical experience on staff, Klug Systems by Optimation delivers superior structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls solutions.

    Turnkey Glass Batch Plant Supplier
    Optimation offers turnkey projects for your batch plant. Our most recent turnkey batch plant is a modern, monolithic, slip-form design and is meeting the client’s goal of operation by a single operator.

    Concept to Completion
    During the feasibility phases of your projects, Klug Systems by Optimation provides services for cost assessment, risk assessment and high-level design. Once capital approval is secured, the design team provides engineering drawing packages, equipment schedules, site plans, and test plans. The team offers continuity throughout specification, design, integration, development, implementation, calibration, troubleshooting, startup, debug and production.

    Batch House Audits
    Clients retain Klug Systems services for utilization studies to benchmark capabilities, review changes for new production requirements, and plan multi-phased capital budgets. This analysis has been invaluable in future capability and production planning.

    Vibration Controls and Analysis
    Optimation solves specific vibration problems with data acquisition systems and services designed to analyze rotating and mechanized machinery.

  • FFT & Modal Analysis
  • Orbit, Waterfall, Polar, Bode Plots
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Rotor Dynamic Modeling
  • Onsite Classes and Training Option


  • Mechanical and Machine Services
    Optimation’s engineers and designers use 2D and 3D design packages along with simulators to reduce the implementation time and cost of production machinery.
  • Conveying, Sorting, Traying
  • Robots, Product Handling, Positioning
  • Vision Inspection and Scanners
  • Case Packing, Palletizing, Wrapping


  • Layer and Thickness Measurements
    Optimation provides custom fixturing and machinery for lab equipment and on-line measurement of layers and coatings. These systems are non-contact and provide data that can be stored or used for real-time control at over 50Hz. Wide thickness ranges (12 microns to 12 mm) and extreme accuracy down to 100 nanometers are achievable with built-in autocalibration.
  • Lens thickness Tube OD, ID, Wall Thickness
  • Bottle OD
  • Windshield Coatings and Thickness
  • Laminate layers
  • Inclusions over 12 microns


  • Automation, Instrumentation and Control
    Deploying strategies with cascade loops, interlocks, and alarm management for instrumentation, valves, drives, and pumps is done by expert process engineers trained as part of authorized relationships with world-class suppliers. Additional expertise includes a wide variety of I/O, communication architectures, and system usability design. Knowledge of modern techniques such as Model Free Adaptive Controllers (MFA), S95/S88, and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) insure clients operate at peak performance.

     
     
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