PPMA SHOW PREVIEW
Bulk Materials
Handling Equipment
SPIROFLOW TO SHOWCASE
REMOTE MONITORING
SYSTEM AT PPMA
Bulk materials handling specialist,
Spiroflow, will be using the
PPMA Total Show to promote
their new innovative monitoring
system that remotely provides
real time information on the
performance of their complete
machinery range. The system is
known as SAM – Spiroflow Active
Monitoring.
The aim of the initiative is to
automatically monitor customers’
equipment through sensor-based
technology, thereby providing key
performance related, safety and
operational data. As an ‘upgrade’,
SAM is built into the standard
electrical panel on Spiroflow’s
machinery by an in-house team
of skilled electrical engineers and
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connected remotely via 4G/5G
or Wi-Fi.
Commenting on the new system,
Spiroflow’s James Podevyn,
said: “As an industry leader, it is
important for us to embrace not
only IIoT in all that we do, but also
to support the private sector’s
move towards industry 4.0. As an
industry first, SAM will allow our
customers to have unbiased facts
at their fingertips allowing for an
enhanced overview of equipment
performance, together with the
ability to quickly identify issues
and rectify them.”
To learn more, see Spiroflow on
stand B64 or visit
spiroflow.com/samsaves
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Aeromechanical Conveyors Bag Conditioners
Tubular Drag Conveyors Fully Integrated Systems
Bulk Bag Unloaders Electrical Controls
01200 422525 www.spiroflow.com
sales@spiroflow.com
UNATTENDED PRODUCTION FOR RUTLAND
Rutland Plastics, is a private
company based in Oakham
Rutland with a 66000 ft sq
factory and a turnover in
excess of £10 million, operating
moulding machines ranging
from 150 tonne to 1700 tonne.
Looking to achieve unattended
production on a Krauss Maffei
KM150, Rutland Plastics selected
UPM Conveyors to provide a
turnkey solution requiring 8 belt
conveyors to allow automatic
product divert for QC inspection;
ferrous/non-ferrous metal
detection; product cooling;
parts separation and box filling
with a capacity of 8 full; 8 empty
and 1 filling.
Product divert is achieved with a
small reversing conveyor located
onto a swan neck conveyor in
the well of the machine and
at any stage in production
an operator can energise to
reverse and transfer a shot to an
integral sample drawer for QC
inspection.
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Metal detection is based on
UPM inserting a search coil
under the inclined section of
the Swan Neck in the well of
the machine and on detecting
a foreign body will energise an
audible / visual alarm and stop
the belt conveyor so an operator
can check and remove the
contamination.
This does not affect the
moulding machine cycle
as product continues to be
produced and accumulated on
the conveyor until the operator
has reset to start again.
The central control is a PLC
controlling all aspects of the
system interfacing with the
variable speed drives on each
conveyor and connecting to the
weigh scale.
Rutland expressed their total
satisfaction with the UPM
project team who installed and
commissioned the system which
is operating 24/7 trouble free.
www.upmconveyors.co.uk