Autonomous testing
Black Box
A sand laboratory that handles its own samples, reads its own specimens and reports without anyone standing at the bench.
Off-line equipment has no say in the mould being made now
A sample carried to a laboratory is answered in twenty to forty-five minutes. By then the sand it came from has already been moulded. Black Box puts the measurement where the decision is, so the reading arrives while it can still change something.
It is one enclosure: sample handling, preparation, measurement and reporting, configured for the tests a given foundry actually runs.
Built
It exists, and it runs
The cabinet
Near-black panels, the Versatile wordmark down the left edge and an illuminated seam. Photographed on the floor, not rendered.
The cell
Sample handling, preparation and measurement inside one enclosure, with the pneumatics connected.
The badge
BLACKBOX in polished chrome, with the hexagonal monogram and the Sahas Labs mark above it.
Configurations
Two variants, one enclosure
Sand testing
Everything the V-CAT measures at the line, and the bench tests besides: active clay, volatile matter, loss on ignition and the rest of the routine.
Metallography
Microstructure and spectro, with automated sample preparation and image analysis.
Engineered with Sahas Labs
Black Box is a Versatile product, engineered in collaboration with Sahas Labs Pvt Ltd of Kolhapur. It registers itself on the process network over Modbus TCP and MQTT, so readings land where your process data already lives without hand-mapping tags.
It can be seen running. Tell us what you test, and how often you wish you could.