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I recently was able to speak in front of a group of 40 engineers representing some 1,000 years of experience in bulk solids material handling at the October meeting of the HMHS (Houston Material Handling Society).  This was truly a humbling experience for me ....... and one I took very seriously so I was not going to present a commercial.

A friend of mine recently wrote an Op-Ed for an automation magazine and in his editorial he said some things that I really identified with and I felt the HMHS engineers could benefit from so I started of the meeting with some quotes from Dr. Peter Martin's editorial in the September issue of InTech magazine where he stated that "engineers must step up and assume a leadership role within their companies by helping drive new levels of business performance". 

He further stated that the reason most companies don't understand the true benefit of the engineering discipline is that "most financial systems cannot measure the improvements" that engineers make.  I decided that my discussion about "recent directions in level monitoring and measurement of bulk solids" needed to provide these engineers some tidbits they could use to "add value" to their companies performance.

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The latest generation of an Ethanol producing plant is just about to go on-line in Wisconsin.  The news story and video can be found at the link here.  In addition, guided wave radar is instrumental at this facility and used to measure changing levels of corn in various conditions.  The benefit of guided wave radar is its continuous measurement capability, moderate cost, ease of installation and start-up.  Guided wave radar technology is used in a wide variety of applications in many different industries.  It's universal appeal is another reason for the fact that it is growing in popularity and use by some 21% per year (according to a recent VDC market study and report).

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