Company History

2006
Introduction of the C-Detect Shim Stock Carbon Analysis and ShopPilot software package for commercial heat treating businesses.

2004
PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GmbH and Nitrex Metal Inc. join forces.

2003
Development of customer specified process control systems with material tracing, visualization of full automatic stocks and more.

2001
Merger of PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Heiningen, PROCESS-ELECTRONIC Essen und der PELEC GmbH Ulm with PROCESS-ELECTRONIC GmbH

1997
Development of the new controller series named PROTHERM
Introduction of the worldwide smallest carbon diffusion controller PROTHERM 300/Diff

1994
port of the process control system PROFIL 9000 to PC-Hardware
Introduction of PROTHERM 9000

1993
Introduction of the first nitriding sensors
Development of the nitriding number controller and programmer - CARBONIT

1990
Migration to UNIX- Workstations with PROFIL 9000
Development of standard furnace control for continuous furnace lines

1988
Network-able order and control system - OCSM

1987
Development of a module to calculate the hardness online
Introduction of C-Strom-Sensors together with CARBODIFF
Development of the CARBOTEST device as an alternative to foil probes

1986
fully automatic control and diffusion calculation on a continuous strip furnace with OCL

1984
fully automatic control of Borel bell - furnaces with OCD-DIFF

1982
Process-Electronic Vertriebs- und Planungsgesellschaft mbH at Essen was founded
Development of the first carbon diffusion controller in the world, the OCD-DIFF

1974
Process-Electronic, Analyse- und Regelgeräte GmbH was founded
Development of the oxygen probes S700 and S900
Development of the first carbon potential controller OCC1000

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Complete Product list:

Heat treating sensors, probes and analyzers

• oxygen sensors

• hydrogen sensors

• nitriding sensors

• nitrocarburizing sensors

• carburizing sensors

• nitriding analyzers

• hydrogen analyzers

Heat treating software

• carburizing simulation software

Heat treating controllers

• carburizing controllers

• nitriding controllers

• nitrocarburizing controllers

• High-accuracy controllers for calculating and controlling dew point, oxygen partial pressure, temperature, nitriding potential and carbon potential

• Embedded programmable controllers designed to monitor, control and record heat-treatment processes running in batch furnaces

• Universal programmable controllers custom configurable to monitor, control and record heat-treatment processes running in various types of furnaces
  

Heat treating management software

• Integrated production management software package (plant management system or SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) for optimizing the performance and efficiency of a heat treatment plant operating a variety of furnaces and for automatic handling of machinery (plant automation)
  

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