The success of SmartMelter® technology has created extensive growth for its developing company, PaneraTech, Inc. The company has announced the opening of two new engineering positions to ensure that customers continue to receive a high level of support while managing furnace campaign life. PaneraTech is...
Eric has always been fascinated with antennas and radio communication. Inspired by the space program in high school, he became a radio amateur who built his own transmitters, receivers and antennas. He even used Morse code to communicate around the world. Eric’s work was instrumental to...
SmartMelter®, an advanced radar-based technology for refractory thickness measurement, will be presented at Furnace Solutions 12 Conference. This will be one of several topics on practical glass-making issues presented on Thursday, June 8th. The presentation will detail almost a decade of work in using SmartMelter®...
Alex has always been interested in science and engineering. He was the kid who took his family's old radio apart and enjoyed school field trips to factories. "I was curious like that," he says. "In high school, a friend and I once went to a...
PaneraTech has successfully demonstrated measurement of of a furnace bottom in a blind trial on a float line furnace. A major US-based float glass manufacturer approached PaneraTech to use our SmartMelter® solution to measure and monitor the residual thickness of the furnace bottom on a...
SmartMelter®, a comprehensive solution that is revolutionizing risk management and optimizing furnace life for glass manufacturers, has helped Cardinal Glass reach a scheduled furnace rebuild for their float line furnace. PaneraTech, the company that developed SmartMelter®, has been working with the company throughout 2016 to...
SmartMelter®, a breakthrough solution for measuring refractory wall thickness, is monitoring the health of the bottom of a Cardinal Glass float line as it operates in its final months before a scheduled rebuild. Cardinal has partnered with PaneraTech, Inc, the developer of SmartMelter®, to lower...
PaneraTech, the first company to demonstrate a deterministic solution for refractory thickness measurement, will exhibit their SmartMelter® solution at Glasstec 2016. After conducting several successful trials of SmartMelter over the past year, the PaneraTech team is moving forward to introduce their breakthrough solution at the...
The July/August 2016 issue of Glass Worldwide Magazine features a Supplier Focus on PaneraTech, Inc. The article highlights the history and development of PaneraTech from its early days at the Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory to the world class engineering team that today inhabits its...
PaneraTech has successfully demonstrated measurement of residual fused-cast AZS thickness on a float line furnace. A global float glass manufacturer requested a blind trial of the SmartMelter® RTS Sensor on one of its furnaces in Europe before the glass line was lowered for hot repair. Blind...
