Kiln Performance Monitoring
Every kiln, every charge, on one screen
Illustrative product demo. Every figure on this page is generic and does not reflect any client’s measured results. A read-only scoreboard stands on top of the kiln controls; it never takes control of a kiln.
Steam per board-foot, this charge. Select a kiln to see its trend and readings.
Kiln 3 uses more steam per degree of heat-up than its twins, and the gap sits in the hot end of the cycle. That points at heat-delivery loss, a failing trap or a fouled coil on this header, rather than the schedule or the door seals. We can narrow it to a station.
The platform points you to where to look. Confirming the exact part is a physical check, on your next walk-through or ours, not something we claim to see from the data alone.
What the platform would surface, so a real fault never hides in the noise.
- Repeat of an alarm already open−14
- Cleared on its own inside a minute−9
- Known nuisance thermocouple−4
Potential, once we know your kilns
Pending confirmationBeyond monitoring, this is where the software reads the data and tells the operator what to change: species control and shorter runtimes. Each one depends on a few answers about a given mill first, so we show it as what is possible, not what is promised.
Moisture over the charge. The preset schedule kept drying after the target was already hit.
What it flags. This charge reached its 12% target at hour 27, but the schedule ran it to hour 33, over-drying to ~10%. If the schedule has room to tighten, that is about 6 hours and the steam that went with them, back on every charge. Whether it does is one of the first things we confirm.
The sensor is calibrated to one species and reads high on others. The platform can correct per species, so the schedule targets the true moisture, not the sensor’s. Where that is happening, it is a direct way to stop over-drying, once we confirm the calibration.
Potential, at a tightened schedule. About 4 hours a charge, which across a building’s ~200 charges a year is roughly a dozen more charges of capacity, if drying is the bottleneck and the schedule has room, both of which we confirm first.