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Would you choose in-line verification of the thermal performance of your insulating glass that you can use to out-market your competition? Or the capability to make R-5 triples for about one third the current gas cost—or almost one-sixth less if you make asymmetrical triples?

Actually, you can have it all and now. How? With the award winning and patent-pending OptiGas 500 insulating glass gas-filling and thermal verification system from Integrated Automation Systems.

Introduced in 2011, the newly-updated OptiGas 500 now comes standard with integrated and automated ThermalCERT thermal verification. Previously, thermal verification required a separate ThermalCERT unit.

“While users like the potential savings and incredible gas filling flexibility they gain with OptiGas, they get really excited about verifiable and promotable thermal performance,” says Integrated Automation Systems President Mike McHugh. “We’ve put it into one unit and made it standard.”

ThermalCERT uses proven statistical process control methodology to verify and then save the thermal performance […]

OptiGas will be at exhibiting in Win-Door booth 1609 with our development partner FeneTech November 15-17 in Toronto. If you’re at the show, please stop by to visit!

The OptiGas 500 gas filling system has been selected as the 2011 Crystal Achievement Award for the most innovative machine for IG production and glazing.

The editors wrote:

“The unit works automatically, first filling the IG airspace with argon and forcing air out. More expensive krypton follows, without any gas loss. The machine allows the manufacturer to precisely tune the percentage fill for each gas and reach the specific U-value desired at the least cost. The machine also eliminates undetected leaks, as the OptiGas system monitors cylinders and sounds an alarm if there is a leak. The unit provides accuracy by measuring krypton and argon at input.”

The award is for the OptiGas 500 used with the optional ThermalCERT thermal performance verification system.

You can see all theCrystal Achievement Award winners at   […]

Solon, Ohio, August 30, 2011 – Integrated Automation Systems, Inc., has entered an agreement with Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX), to market its breakthrough OptiGas gas filling system for insulating glass. The companies have been co-developing the systems for two years.

The patent-pending OptiGas system fills insulating glass with krypton, argon or any mix of both. Krypton is a rare gas with excellent thermal insulating properties. Through a proprietary filling process, the OptiGas system can reduce krypton consumption by up to 70% per unit and provide analytical verification of gas content for the insulated glass units.

This advanced technology enables window and door companies to reduce their gas costs significantly by eliminating krypton waste.

Praxair and Integrated Automation Systems will be introducing the OptiGas filling system in booth 1151 at the GlassBuild America Expo in Atlanta, Ga., September 12 -14, 2011. The booth will feature live demonstrations of the new technology. More […]

See OptiGas and ThermalCERT September 10-12 at GlassBuild America 2011 in Atlanta in booth 1151, where Praxair will be our co-host. If you have questions about our show participation or wish to reserve a time slot that fits your meeting schedule, please contact Mike McHugh at mike@savekrypton.com or 330-954-3070.

OptiGas was developed from nearly three decades of frustration with conventional gas filling techniques for insulating glass.

What’s the problem with gas filling as done in most fabrication in North America?

• Conventional gas filling is inexact. Gas content is measured not by what is in the IG, but by what is and isn’t coming out.
• U values are unverified.
• Operators must manually identify and route the right units to the right fill station, resulting in inefficiencies and errors.
• You can fill with krypton or argon through one nozzle, but not both. That takes two wands or stations and two procedures.
• Actual yields are difficult if not impossible to determine with conventional gas filling.
• With conventional gas filling, you don’t know how much krypton is in your cylinders. Leaks go undetected. You carry extra cylinders to compensate.
• With every unit you fill, half the krypton spills on the floor. Which is the same as throwing away every other cylinder you […]
  

SOLON, OHIO — Integrated Automation Systems is introducing new gas filling systems that deliver huge improvements in a critical mostly overlooked part of insulating glass production.

The new OptiGas systems offer precise, tunable and consistent automated gas-filling that essentially eliminates krypton waste and operator errors. And with the optional ThermalCERT by OptiGas thermal conductivity testing system,  you get instant verification of true thermal performance and a program you can use in your marketing.

“OptiGas gives you complete control of the marketable thermal performance of all your product lines and units,” said Mike McHugh, president of Integrated Automation Systems. “You can pinpoint thermal performance for each line, produce high-performance U value IG for the lowest possible cost and cost-effectively use Krypton across more of your mid-value product lines.”

OptiGas uses a patent pending process to efficiently fill insulating glass with Argon and Krypton through a single nozzle, McHugh said. The process measures the actual gas inserted into the space, rather […]