Consistent sample preparation: our services for automation
Sample preparation machines and automated laboratories from HERZOG set standards in countless raw material, environmental and food analysis applications worldwide. Our systems are used by all leading producers in the metal, cement, mining, and recycling industries and effectively support analysis processes in many other sectors. And for the best reasons: With HERZOG, they - and you - benefit from several decades of experience and unique expertise in automation technology. For reliable, fast, and precise quality monitoring.
We offer you all services for your successful automation project from a single source: consulting, engineering, implementation, installation, commissioning, training, and maintenance. Our interdisciplinary team of specialists in process technology, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, and IT develops and implements automation solutions that are perfectly suited to your application.
In this way, we ensure what is important for you in every project: first-class sample preparation with short throughput times, high reliability and an intelligent overview of all relevant process and analysis data. Get in touch with us: We will be happy to advise you.
Why HERZOG automations?
- standardized processes
- Proven technologies to prevent material loss and cross-contamination
- Special procedures for each sample material and preparation technique
- Efficient cleaning between samples
- precise process monitoring even with high sample throughput
- Perfectly coordinated system components
- Optimized sample management
- Intelligent control systems at SCADA and PLC level
- Reliable processes in every sub-step
- Optimized system availability
- Increased productivity
- tried and tested technology
- high-quality components
- Customer-specific redundancy and back-up concepts
- extensive risk analyses
- individual security concepts
- full employee protection
- close cooperation with almost all major suppliers and OEMs of analytical instruments and handling equipment
- integration of a wide variety of components such as robots, third-party machines, analytical instrument (XRF, XRD, OES, CNS, ICP, radioactivity, etc.), PLCs and sensors (balances, grain size analysis, optical systems, etc.)
- Individual designs according to customer requirements
- Comprehensive and quick overview of system performance
- Powerful software
- Evaluation and monitoring of all relevant process and analysis data including workload, performance and maintenance status using PrepMaster Analytics
- Convenient and simple operation of the systems using PrepMaster Core and PrepMaster Entry
- Sensor-based automatic systems for tool condition monitoring (TCM) and predictive maintenance (PM)
From a single source - our other solutions and services:
Standard automation
With our standard automation systems, we cover a wide variety of different industrial applications for automated sample preparation and quality control. To ensure that our systems are always optimally suited to your area of application, we offer you standard lab solutions specifically for your industry and your sample materials.
Control and monitoring software
Our software provides you with decisive advantages: The HERZOG PrepMaster Suite is a fully integrated SCADA system that can be used to automate, control, record and evaluate all processes and data in your laboratory. The PrepMaster Suite is fully scalable, modular and flexibly expandable.
Fusion
For an optimum fit with your application, you can choose from a wide range of fusion systems: from manual table-top devices to complete automation. As a leading supplier of digestion systems for the raw materials industry, we have been successful on the market for many decades. Our range includes both digestion devices with resistance and induction technology (also as benchtop devices) as well as fully automated systems with dosing and cleaning.
Crushing + Pulverizing
Our range includes an extensive spectrum of jaw, cone and mortar crushers. They reliably perform the effective coarse and pre-crushing of sample material with different task quantities, grain sizes, hardnesses and material properties. HERZOG crushers are available as stand-alone machines or in combination with a divider.
Milling + Grinding
We offer you a broad portfolio of milling and grinding machines that we have designed specifically for use in the preparation of steel and iron samples, foundry samples and non-ferrous samples. We have designed all components such as the clamping unit, milling cutter, spindle motor and traversing axes in such a way that perfect results are achieved for all sample materials.
Pelletizing
HERZOG offers a wide range of manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic machines for the compression of powdered sample material. We are at your side right from the start to help you select the optimum equipment.
Sampling, spliting, dosing
We offer you a comprehensive portfolio of systems for sampling, dividing and dosing for a wide range of different applications: developed for the requirements of quality assurance laboratories, highly efficient in use and proven over the long term in a wide variety of industries.
Pneumatic tube systems
HERZOG pneumatic tube systems transport samples reliably and quickly from your plant to your laboratory or other operating stations. Our large selection of pneumatic tube and sample handling stations forms the basis for an absolutely flexible, application-optimized design of your system.
Sample preparation combustion analysis
HERZOG opens up a wide range of possibilities for analyzing the metal elements carbon, sulphur, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen by means of combustion analysis. Our integrated solutions ensure the optimum preparation of steel, iron and other metal samples for optical emission spectroscopy (OES), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and combustion analysis.
Engineering
Our engineering expertise creates a solid basis for the optimum configuration of your system - and therefore for rapid commissioning and a high level of long-term operational reliability.
Software
Fast deployment and simple service: With our software solutions, we support you in maximizing the efficiency of your company's processes. HERZOG software modules provide you with significant advantages and impress with their all-around, reliable performance.
Mechanical construction
Our services include the design and realization of complete automation systems and stand-alone machines for sample preparation at the highest quality level. Since 1959, we have specialized in optimizing sample preparation for quality control in a wide range of industries. Today, HERZOG is the world's leading supplier of manual and automated laboratory systems for quality assurance.
Seminars + Trainings
We offer seminars and training courses for machine and system users and technicians being in charge of maintaining HERZOG machines. Furthermore, we coach and train our service partners so that we can guarantee the highest possible service standard in all regions of the world.
Application development
The accuracy and precision of analytical methods depend largely on the quality of the sampling and sample preparation, the sample matrix, and the measurement conditions. Our team of experienced application specialists supports you in process development and optimization and minimizing analytical errors: in the HERZOG application laboratories or on site at your company.
Technical services
Our fast-response technical service is a key component of your planning security. Our promise here includes the reliable and fast supply of original parts as well as a high-performance maintenance and repair service by HERZOG or one of our certified partners.
Research + Development
We keep moving: Research and development are an integral part of our corporate identity. We live this throughout our day-to-day work: in our large in-house R&D department, we work continuously and proactively on the further development of our products and processes.
