Heat Treatment Inspection and Process Record Review: Multi-turn Dialogue and Prompt Engineering

Heat treatment inspection and process record review data comes from material grades, customer technical specifications, temperature control

What this category of data looks like

Heat treatment inspection and process record review data comes from material grades, customer technical specifications, temperature control instruments, furnace temperature uniformity testing equipment, hardness testers and metallographic equipment, and manufacturing execution systems. Data is updated per furnace charge and per batch. Core documents include heat treatment process cards, charging diagrams, furnace temperature curves, hardness and metallographic reports, equipment inspection forms, and exception handling forms. Data fields include furnace temperature (℃), holding time (hours), hardness value (HV), metallographic structure grade, and more. Each furnace charge corresponds to a unique production batch identifier and associated document set.

The high-frequency updated data for each independent furnace charge requires multi-turn dialogue to bind a unique identifier, preventing cross-furnace charge context confusion. Mixed input of multiple types of structured documents requires prompts to clearly define the context scope, only calling documents related to the current furnace charge. Data fields with fixed built-in units require prompts to enforce that output results match the corresponding units, to avoid review deviations. Data sources connected to production systems require dialogue to pass parameters such as batch number and furnace number, to quickly locate exclusive business data.

Configuration Settings

These configurations are based on FastGPT v4.17.0.

Configuration ItemRecommended ApproachRationale
chatIdBind the current furnace charge number plus production batch numberEnsure each furnace charge has independent dialogue context, avoiding confusion between review data from different batches
messagesLimit the context window to the first 20 messages of the current sessionCore heat treatment review dialogues typically do not exceed 20 rounds; overly long contexts may introduce irrelevant historical content
variablesPreset variables for furnace temperature curve ID and process card numberQuickly locate exclusive business documents for the current furnace charge, reducing ineffective search range
Maximum context length800–1200 charactersThe total length of core review documents for a single furnace charge typically falls within this range, avoiding interference from redundant data on model judgment
Single search limitTop 3 resultsCore documents to verify for heat treatment review are process cards, furnace temperature curves, and hardness reports; too many results will distract attention
Question OptimizationEnabledThe step-by-step review process can clarify the verification target for each round of dialogue through question optimization, improving review accuracy

Three Common Misconfigurations

  • Dialogue logs fail to export all records, returning empty results. This occurs when the chatId parameter is not correctly bound, and the association logic between session storage and the current furnace charge identifier is not configured.
  • After uploading a furnace temperature curve image, it cannot be interpreted, returning no relevant content. This happens when multimodal configuration is not enabled, or the prompt does not explicitly require identifying temperature values and curve trends in the image.
  • Chat history context is lost, and previously verified content is not reflected. This is caused by not limiting the messages parameter to the current session scope, and incorrectly introducing context data from other furnace charges.

How to Verify the Configuration is Correct

Initiate a single-furnace-charge review dialogue. Verify that returned context only includes documents such as process cards and furnace temperature curves corresponding to the current furnace number, with no data from other batches. Upload a photographed image of the furnace temperature curve. Validate that the model can extract and verify temperature values in the image match preset process requirements. Initiate a multi-round step-by-step review. Confirm that the session log fully records each round of questions and replies, with no omissions. Call the variables parameter to pass a specified furnace number. Validate that the model can automatically associate data from the equipment inspection form and exception handling form for the corresponding batch.

The values provided here are common starting points and should be measured against the reader's own samples.