TAP by
SDS Industries

The Most Advanced Control Technology Available

The first commercially available consumer kiln controller to utilize an intuitive, graphical user interface, providing you with the simplicity you deserve and the performance SDS Industries is known for.

TAP Kiln Controller - Simplicity & Precision

Our mission is to provide the most user-friendly and precise kiln controllers available.

We understand the challenge of working with manual controllers or the complexity that comes with other digital controllers. As a result, SDS Industries presents the first commercially available kiln controller with an intuitive graphical user interface that allows you to immediately begin programming and operating your kiln.

With TAP Kiln Controllers, by SDS Industries, we have narrowed down our focus to two areas: simplicity and precision. The result is a controller that is easy to use, performs impeccably, and responds to your every touch.

Main Categories

Controllers

Conversion Kits

Standalones

WiFi

The Simplicity You Need

We’ve taken every measure to ensure that you experience a minimal learning curve, complete control, and visual ease when you work with a TAP Kiln Controller.

Touchscreen

Touchscreen design with a large screen and visual ease

Full-Text Display

Full text display shows complete firing schedules, including alpha-numeric firing schedule titles

Logical Menu

Logical and intuitive menu – with all controls fully visible

High-Contrast Screen

Large format, high-contrast screen that displays kiln temperature and current state during operation

TAP Kiln Control Mobile

TAP Kiln Control Mobile (available on iOS and Android) to monitor the kiln, develop and edit programs, and remotely perform TAP Controller functions

Pre-Loaded or Custom Firing Schedules

Choice of using kiln manufacturer pre-loaded firing schedules or creating custom firing schedules

Modifiable Firing Schedules

Easily modifiable firing schedules, with all data displayed on the touchscreen for easy verification or modification

Visual Graphs

Visual graph of the kiln’s chamber temperature, up to the minute, during firing

Software Updates

Software updates, by SDS Industries, downloaded automatically by the TAP Controller, or manually via USB flash drive

TAP Kiln Control Mobile

Impeccable performance and response to your touch aren’t the only advantages of working with TAP Kiln Controllers. With the TAP Kiln Control Mobile App, you can maintain complete control over your kilns, even while away from your projects.

You can make adjustments, monitor your kiln, develop and edit schedules, modify settings, review logs, and perform other TAP Controller functions all from your mobile device!

The Performance You Deserve

The ability to control every detail of your kiln during operation is imperative. That’s why we’ve made it as simple as possible to see all relevant information and perform critical adjustments, ensuring your kiln is always operating at peak performance.

Special limits and low error thermocouple components for excellent control performance

On-board diagnostics to verify input/output operation

Energy-efficient design

Enhanced data logging for after action reports and troubleshooting

Preventative Maintenance with Relay, Thermocouple, and Element Life Reporting

Utilization of a Proportional Integral-Derivative (PID) control algorithm to ensure precise schedule following with the fastest response, minimal overshoot, and limited steady-state error

Kiln error information and diagnostics features designed to keep you informed of any past, present, or future kiln component failures

Diagnostics that provide a real-time look into the usage of critical kiln components, allowing you to view the number of relay actuations, the time heating elements have been on, and the time thermocouples have been exposed to high temperatures

Calculation of the cost of your electrical usage for each firing schedule

See What Users Have To Say

SEE WHAT USERS HAVE TO SAY

The TAP Smart Controller is amazing! If you are on the fence about spending the extra money for this controller, just do it. You won’t regret it!

The beauty of the TAP controller is it's ability to hold many more schedules than most other units. This allows me to make the controller easier to use for both my wife and I. That coupled with the ease of changing schedules as needed even when the kiln is running produces the most custom results that a glass artist can hope to achieve.

I’m so glad I decided to go with the TAP Controller with Wi-Fi capability. I’ve worked with both 3 and 12 button controllers in the past. This was so simple in comparison. One of the things I like so much is that everything is so instant. The first kiln I ever purchased was from someone who got their kiln and was so confused and frightened of entering a schedule that they never used it. That would never happen with the TAP Controller.

We switched Internet providers and I was having a hard time figuring out how to update the settings on my controller. I sent an email fully expecting to wait over the weekend and a couple days into the next week to get a reply. Instead, while I was still sitting in front of the controller reviewing the other settings, my phone pinged and there was the reply. Simple solution, and customer service so fast it made my head spin! My only regret is that I will not be able to use the customer service more often because the product performs so well I doubt I’ll ever need to!

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