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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 51, July 3, 2000
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Sponsors Message
> The Solution to Your Continuous Level Measurement Applications
> New Software Provides Real-Time Material Management
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!, "The Use of Inserts in Hoppers"
> Premix Pros from Japan
> We had over 16,000 Visitors in June!
> Hosokawa Manufacturing Cordially Invites You to an Open House
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
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The Solution to Your Continuous Level Measurement Applications
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SPARTANBURG, SC, June 13, 2000-Bindicator's Phase Tracker
technology is designed to solve the most challenging continuous
level applications. It has proven effective in tank heights up
to 130' and in materials with dielectric constants as low as 1.6.
A single Phase Tracker system can control up to 24 tanks of
dissimilar height and material simultaneously. System architecture
allows a customer to add new sensors after original installation,
which accommodates growth. The sensing technology is independent
of two of the most common problems that affect continuous level
instrumentation: variation in the environment and changes in the
product being measured. Phase Tracker has proven to outperform
competing technologies in dust, foam, non-air vapor, fumes,
changing and low dielectric constants, abrasives and corrosives,
corrugated bins and tall, narrow silos.
Bindicator manufactures a complete line of point and continuous
level control instrumentation in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
For more information contact:
Bindicator
150 Venture Blvd.
Spartanburg, SC 29306
Telephone: (864) 574-8060 or 800-788-9242
Fax: (864) 574-8063
Web site: http://www.bindicator.com/
mailto:sales@bindicator.com
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New Software Provides Real-Time Material Management
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PHOENIX, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequencia Corporation, the
leading supplier of responsive manufacturing and product
collaboration solutions for the process industries, today
announced the forthcoming availability of Sequencia mTrack(TM).
The new real-time software provides plant-level material
management and tracking that can be tied to corporate material
management systems. mTrack is the newest component of
Sequencia's Responsive Process Manufacturing Series
(rpmSeries(TM)), a suite of products providing product change
management and execution solutions across the enterprise.
Managing materials as they move through manufacturing facilities
is critical to quality operations and regulatory compliance.
Sequencia mTrack provides the process industry with full
just-in-time material management for batch execution systems.
It directs and routes materials across production cells and
provides full forward and reverse material traceability and
genealogy. Sequencia mTrack also significantly reduces the
number of recipes, and eliminates the control system code
normally required for flexible material storage.
According to Robert G. Pape, President and CEO of Sequencia,
"mTrack provides unmatched material management capability at
the factory floor level, allowing operators and engineers full
access to all raw, intermediate and final material information,
allowing them to make timely and profitable decisions on material
usage."
Dennis Brandl, Director of Enterprise Initiatives, adds, "mTrack
is another key ingredient in the Sequencia rpmSeries. As a
critical add-on to oBatch(TM) and eProcedure(TM), mTrack adds
the level of detail necessary for full material traceability
in regulated industries. In addition, mTrack provides the
single point of real-time information for connectivity to corporate
inventory management systems. It follows the ISA S95 standards
for material information and provides standard data interfaces
for plant-wide material and tank farm management." mTrack will
be available in Fall 2000.
About Sequencia
With unparalleled experience and domain knowledge, Sequencia
Corporation is providing e-business solutions to automate the
deployment of new product and process innovations into the
manufacturing supply chain within the process industries.
Sequencia Corporation provides product definition, deployment,
execution and collaboration solutions that enable responsive
process manufacturing and collaborative commerce. Sequencia
products improve the business results of over 300 implementations
worldwide within the specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, food
and beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries. Additional
information is available at:
Sequencia Corporation
15458-B North 28th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85053
Telephone: 602-896-3700
Fax: 602-896-3896
Web site: http://www.sequencia.com/
mailto:info@sequencia.com
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Time to advance your skills over the summer, check into these
great books to broaden your processing knowledge.
"The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging
Technology"
by Aaron L. Brody (Editor), Kenneth S. Marsh (Editor)
Paperback, 2nd edition, January 1997
"Food Packaging
Technology"
by G. Bureau (Editor), J.-L. Multon (Editor)
Hardcover, November 1995
"Blow-Fill-Seal
Technology"
by R. Oschmann, Willmar Schwabe, O.E. Schubert
Paperback, 132 pages, March 1999
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
Thank you for your continued support of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com and for our Reading Room. You can visit the Reading Room at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Joe Column!, "The Use of Inserts in Hoppers"
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GUEST ARTICLES
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you
solved a difficult materials problem? You too, can be an Ask
Joe! guest author!
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old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article
to the Ask Joe! Column.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"The Use of Inserts in Hoppers"
A guest article by Lyn Bates of Ajax Equipment
You can read Lyn's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
PAST Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
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Premix Pros from Japan
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Roche Vitamins Japan recently built a new premix plant for
livestock feeds, pet foods and fish feeds in Fukuroi.
The latest process technology from Buhler and the preparedness
to apply it enables Roche Vitamins Japan to maintain its
position as an innovative leader in premix production technology.
Product identification, accurate feed of macro- and
micro-ingredients, prevention of cross-contamination,
consistent product mixes, and retraceability of the ingredients
used are just some of the more important requirements that
the new facility fulfills. The underlying concept was
developed in close cooperation with Roche Vitamins Japan,
the object being to build a state-of-the-art, turnkey
premix plant on a "green field" site. As early as during
the initial project phase, various analyses were performed
with the aid of computer simulations.
Adding tiny quantities by hand
In the so-called dispensary room, the manual additives
are processed in the sequence of the jobs to be produced.
In a dust-free booth, the ingredients are weighed online
in tiny quantities using two Mettler scales. The bar
code print-out serves for identification in order to
allow the manual additive unit to be released later on
during production by a bar code reader. Each time product
is received in bins or the bag warehouse, the lot number
is entered through the checking system of the plant. For
each premix produced, the system is capable of allocating
the lot number to each ingredient used and of retrieving
it in the event of subsequent complaints. There are five
different receiving modes for filling bins with raw materials
from Big Bags or trucks (two for micro-ingredients).
To avoid product confusions, the covers of the storage
bins to be filled are equipped with monitoring sensors
and are pneumatically interlocked. Screw feed conveyors
ensure en-masse flow of the materials and thereby also
allow the ingredients used to be retraced.
Pneumatic sender pressure vessel system
The plant in Fukuroi is one of the first to be equipped
with a pneumatic-sender pressure vessel system. A pressure
vessel is installed underneath each of the three main
scales, which is directly fed by the scale through DFWG
double valves and air shut-off valves. The pneumatic-sender
pressure vessel system requires significantly less conveying
air and does not need any airlock feeders, which further
substantially contributes to reducing the operating and
maintenance costs. Two complete DFDA feed systems with 15
feed bins each and special screw feeders, proportion
micro-ingredients having different physical characteristics
with maximum gravimetric precision.
Strict separation of the production lines
The strict separation of the lines up to a point after
the bagging and Big Bag weighing systems entirely rules
out cross-contamination by additives. The mixing lines
are each equipped with two Speedmix DFML 1000 and 2000
high-speed mixers, providing maximum flexibility in the
selection of the batch size. Automatic bagging lines with
check weighers, on-line label printing and application
systems, on-line sampling devices and a fully automatic
bag palletizer for both bagging lines complete this modern
plant. The control system essentially consists of three
levels: the SAP system, the process control system (13
PCs with network / Windows NT in Japanese), and the PLC
level. The centralized SAP system is supplying data on
raw materials, jobs, product formulations and labels via
a modem. At the same time, it receives all the production
statistics. Depending on the batch size and the resulting
ingredient size, a dispensary job is established by the
system for all ingredients that are not to be automatically
proportioned. Other noteworthy features of this system
include lot number monitoring of the ingredients used
and contamination monitoring. All scales, intermediate
bins and mixers are volumetrically and gravimetrically
monitored.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Roman Salzmann
Buhler AG
CH-9240 Uzwil
Switzerland
Telephone ++41 71 955 33 99
Fax ++41 71 955 38 51
mailto:roman.salzmann@buz.buhler.ch
Web site: http://www.buhler.ch/
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Hosokawa Manufacturing Cordially Invites You to an Open House
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Where: Hosokawa Manufacturing, 150 Todd Rd., Santa Rosa, CA
When: Thursday, September 28, 2000
Time: 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. (PDT)
Hosokawa Manufacturing is continuing to expand its equipment
fabrication business. We are a custom manufacturer of pressure
vessels, tanks and other process equipment. The majority of
our clients represent the food, minerals, chemical and
petrochemical industries. We are also poised to handle the
pressure vessel demands of the wine industry. The majority
of our fabrication is done in stainless steel. Hosokawa
Manufacturing holds ASME (current U & R) code stamps and
has a formal quality control program. Our facility is ISO
certified and our work meets the highest standards in the
industry.
Hosokawa Manufacturing has extensive experience in working
with engineering firms and will meet your exact specifications.
Come visit our facility and see our manufacturing capabilities
first hand. Guided tours, by our experienced staff, will be
followed by refreshments at our beautifully landscaped facility.
Spend some time to talk to our highly qualified staff. We
understand the importance of service and commitment to our
customers. We pride ourselves on our craftsmanship. An
afternoon with us will be time well spent.
RSVP not later than September 26, 2000
For more information contact:
Ms. Mary Faulcnor at 707-586-6024 or
E-mail: mailto:info@hmfg.hosokawa.com
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. O'Donnell needs help with metal powder segregation in hoppers:
We are currently experiencing segregation problems in our
ALTAB department (produces alloying tablets) for mixes of
80 % manganese powder (250 microns with a large amount of
fines) and 20 % aluminum granules. Material does not flow
around the wall areas of the hoppers (i.e. the mix dips in
the middle) and aluminum granules build up around the edges
and occasionally flow into the center where the mix is
leaving the hopper resulting in fluctuations in product
weight.
We have made perspex models of the hoppers in ALTAB (56
degrees) and a number of other hopper cone angles (65 and
75 degrees). The 75 degrees hopper does not show this dipping
effect as pronounced as the 56 degree, however a hopper of
this angles holding an adequate amount of mix would be too
tall. A 50/50 56/70 degree perspex hopper has been built
(diamond back) but with similar flow properties as the 56
degree. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how the
hopper could be modified to avoid this segregation.
Matthew O'Donnell
London and Scandinavian Metallurgy
mailto:modonnell@lsm.co.uk
Mr. Duckworth wants FIBC Discharge equipment in Poland:
I'm looking for contacts in Poland for FIBC discharge
equipment...help! Telephone: +44 1254 248258
David Duckworth
National Starch & Chemical Co.
mailto:david.duckworth@nstarch.com
These and other messages can be found in the Help Forum.
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photograph is four Salina Vortex wye-line,
multi-port diverter valve assemblies automate Texas-based,
Laurel Industry's transport of antimony trioxide. These
allow the plant to pneumatically convey material from 5
sources to 19 destinations, with 4 lines operating
simultaneously. Photo compliments of Salina Vortex Corp.
http://www.svortex.com/
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home page.
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Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
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Send your photograph and description to,
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From the Job Fair
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CONSULTANTS IN MATERIAL HANDLING
We are a Bangalore (India) based company specializing in powder
handling equipment and have been in the business for over 15
years. With over 400 installations all over India and in
neighboring countries, we are now looking into moving into
the foreign market.
Our International perspective today stems from collaborations
with M/s Palamatic of UK and from experts in the industry
like Dr. David Mills in pneumatic conveying and Mr. Lyndon
Bates, world acknowledged expert in screw conveyors and others.
Please can you tell me where I can obtain information on
consultants in this field in the Middle East, the African
Sub-continent , North and South America? We need people who
will represent us in this field and contact companies who
will be interested in our systems.
Thank you,
Mr. Krithika.V
Scorpio Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
130, Wheeler Road
Cox Town
Bangalore -560005 India
Telephone:+91-80-5484508 or 5484733
Fax: +91-80-5485119
Web site: http://www.scorpioengg.com/
mailto:scorpioengg@vsnl.com
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