Green density, measured before the part reaches the furnace.
A pressed part leaves the die as a semi-solid shape, powder held together by binder and roughly the dimensions of the finished component. Density variation at that point is a press adjustment. After sintering it is scrap. GGC brought X-ray green density measurement to these industries in 2015 with the Density Comparator.
Schematic. Where the gauge stands depends on the press cell layout and on how parts are handled between the press and the furnace.
X-ray green density measurement for pressed ceramic and powdered metal parts.
This is the only GGC product that applies here, and that is deliberate. The thickness, coating weight and vision systems on the rest of this site are built for continuous strip moving through a mill. A pressed part is a different problem, so it got a different instrument.
If you are measuring something we have not built for yet, the custom measurement group is the right first conversation. Custom measurement solutions →
Dayton engineers on site from receiving dock through the first measured batch.
Press operators and maintenance trained on the machine they will actually run.
A gauge that is down is a press running blind. Support does not keep office hours.
A green part is powder held together by binder. It is strong enough to be handled and not much more. Any measurement that presses, clamps or probes it risks marking the part, and on a part that fragile the act of measuring can change the thing being measured.
X-ray transmission reads straight through, without contact and without preparing a sample. That is the reason the comparator is built around it, and the reason a part measured on the way to the furnace is still a part when it gets there.
Tell us the material, the pressed geometry and the tolerance you hold after sintering. An applications engineer will come back with a configuration and a budgetary quote.