Line-scan & RGB vision
Surface inspection at line speed across the full profile perimeter, classifying die lines, pickup, scoring and blisters.
Features
Everything neededto trust a press to software.
Extruon is not a dashboard with alerts. It is a perception stack, a bounded control layer, a simulator and an audit system that together earn the right to move a setpoint on a 2,750 tonne press.
Perception
See the pushas it happens.
Fused, synchronised sensing at the press exit — the foundation everything else stands on.
Thermal imaging
Exit-temperature field across the section, catching the hot corners and cold webs a single pyrometer never sees.
Laser profile gauging
Continuous wall thickness, width, radius and section geometry against the drawing tolerance band.
Straightness, twist & bow
Geometric deviation measured on the runout, before the stretcher has to fix it — or fail to.
Press & furnace telemetry
Ram position, speed and pressure, container and die thermocouples, furnace zones, quench, stretcher, saw and oven states.
Sensor fusion at the edge
Four to eight synchronised streams per press fused into one physical picture of the billet, the die and the profile.
Control & prediction
Decide, then actinside an envelope.
Control is bounded, reversible and logged. Prediction is what makes control cheap enough to trust.
Adaptive press control
Ram speed, breakthrough pressure and temperature adapted per push instead of held at a conservative fixed recipe.
Billet taper control
Front-to-back taper set per billet and die so exit temperature stays flat across the whole push.
Defect prediction
Off-spec dimensions, surface defects, twist and temper misses predicted early enough to change the push, not just record it.
Die-trial risk flags
Flow imbalance and correction risk surfaced before press time is committed to proving a die.
Action envelopes
Every writable setpoint has a min, max and max-step your engineers define. Nothing moves outside them, ever.
Rollback & interlocks
Any alarm reverts the last move and returns control, wired into the same fail-safe stop the line already trusts.
Features on one push
Perception, controland proof, together.
A feature list only matters if the pieces run on the same push. Extruon senses, decides, acts and records inside a single bounded loop at the plant edge.
Scroll the push to see sensing engage, control adjust and the recovery readout settle.
Optimisation & simulation
Plan the plant,not just the press.
Constrained optimisation and simulation turn local control into plant-level economics.
Press scheduling
Billet and die assignment, sequence and changeover planned against due dates, alloys and energy windows.
Cut-to-length nesting
Offcut loss minimised across the order book rather than push by push.
Rack & aging batching
Rack loading and aging batches consolidated so ovens run full and temper still lands.
Energy windows
Heating and aging scheduled into cheaper, cleaner energy windows without missing the ship date.
Twin sweeps
Sweeps over billet temperature, ram speed, die temperature, quench rate and aging recipe before committing press time.
Synthetic rare faults
Rare die-line, blister, pickup, twist, bow and temper-miss variants generated in simulation instead of waited for in production.
Review console
The engineer staysin the loop.
Approve, correct, override. Every correction is training data, and every action lands in the audit trail with the evidence that justified it.
14Moves proposed (shift)
12Approved
2Corrected by engineer
0Outside envelope
- Approval rate 86% · up from 61% at week 1
- Correction: taper +6 °C on 6060 soft alloy
- Rejected: quench rate step too aggressive for rack 22
- Model v14 promoted after twin validation
Illustrative review console. Approval rate rising over time is the signal that autonomy has been earned.
Assurance features
The featuresthat pass audit.
Grounding, evaluation and logging are product features here, not compliance paperwork bolted on later.
Citations on every answer
Retrieval over die books, profile drawings, press recipes and alloy specs enforces citations, so every output traces to a source.
Golden datasets in CI
Continuous evaluation with golden datasets and LLM-as-judge gates every model and prompt change before it can reach a press.
Schema and safety checks
Runtime guardrails block unsupported setpoint changes and malformed actions at the action boundary.
Per-plant, per-operator
Versioned memory scoped per tenant and entity captures site-specific craft without cross-tenant leakage.
Feature availability
What is live,what is next.
| Capability | Shadow | Assist | Bounded autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perception & sensing | Full | Full | Full |
| Defect & dimension prediction | Full | Full | Full |
| Setpoint recommendations | — | Full | Full |
| Automatic write-back | — | — | Envelope-bounded |
| Twin validation gate | Full | Full | Required |
| Robotic handling control | — | Advisory | Bounded [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Fleet learning cohorts | — | Opt-in | Opt-in [ASPIRATIONAL] |
Seven agents, one orchestrator
The plant runs as a crewof specialised agents.
Each agent owns a physical stage of the line, senses it directly, and acts inside an approved envelope. A plant orchestrator arbitrates between them so nobody optimises recovery at the expense of temper.
Heat-and-press agent
Controls billet temperature taper, ram speed, breakthrough pressure, container and die temperature, and exit temperature to keep metal flow balanced and the profile on dimension.
Profile-and-defect agent
Senses and predicts cross-section dimensions, wall thickness, straightness and surface defects — die lines, pickup, scoring, blisters — from fused vision and laser gauge.
Die-and-flow agent
Optimises die temperature, correction and flow balance to cut die trials and the twist and bow that send profiles back to the stretcher.
Quench-and-stretch agent
Controls press-quench cooling rate and stretch-straightening so temper and flatness land inside spec on the first pass.
Cut-and-age agent
Controls cut-to-length, batching and aging ovens to reach T5 and T6 mechanical properties without over-soaking the oven.
Robot-and-handling agent
Drives robotic pulling, stacking, racking and packing of long, hot, delicate profiles — the handling nobody wants to staff at 3am.
Yield-and-throughput agent
Optimises press recovery, scrap, butt and offcut loss, and energy per tonne across the whole line rather than one station at a time.
Extrusion-knowledge agent
Answers metallurgy and die-design questions with citations into your die books, profile drawings, press recipes and alloy specs.
Press-and-die digital twin
Simulates billet heating, metal flow through the die, quench and profile properties — hitting the target profile and yield before the push, not after the scrap.
Measured on the press
The numbers a plant directoractually gets paid on.
Every Extruon engagement starts with a baseline and ends with an audited delta. These are the target bands we underwrite in a paid pilot.
+4.2 pts
Press recovery uplift, saleable vs charged metal
−38%
Surface-defect and dimensional rejects
−61%
Die-trial pushes before a die is signed off
−12%
kWh per tonne across heating, quench and aging
Target outcome bands modelled from design-partner baselines. [ASPIRATIONAL — to be replaced with audited pilot results.]
Assurance-grade by default
Trust is the gateto autonomy.
Extruon never asks for control it has not earned. Shadow mode proves accuracy against your operators and gauges; advisory mode proves ROI; bounded autonomy only follows once the gates are met.
Per-tenant everything
Data, models, retrieval indexes and memory are scoped per tenant and per entity. On-prem deployment is available for sensitive producers.
Your die geometry stays yours
Die designs, customer drawings and recipes never leave your boundary. Fleet learning shares defect signatures and process priors, never geometry.
Immutable action log
Every perception, recommendation, approval and setpoint write is recorded with its evidence, ready for quality and customer audits.
SSO, RBAC, encryption
SSO and role-based access, encryption in transit and at rest, SOC 2 programme in progress, and fail-safe interlocks on every write path.
The finale
Features are easy to list.Harder to trust.
Run them in shadow on your own presses for a quarter and judge the predictions against your operators and gauges before anything writes back.
Land on one press. Expand press by press, module by module, site by site.