System description

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Technika Engineering Company for over 27 years represents in Poland:

 Cardinal - USA- the largest U.S. manufacturer of industrial weighing systems, strain gauges, weighing indicators and electronic controls for automation.

Hydronix - GB  - a leading manufacturer of moisture measurement systems.

ELBETPROFI - developed by Technika is a complex software and hardware system that is the result of cooperation with the Cardinal and, Hydronix and is the result of market analysis and many-years investment by the company.

Our offer on the control systems for automatic production of the ready-mixed concrete  meets the requirements of the new Polish and European standards (EN206-1) for the concrete manufacturing.

Technika Company by installing ElbetProfi system provides computer-controlled system for ready-mix plant and the modernization of dosing and raw materials weighing, moisture measuring and controlling of the ready-mix, as well as significant savings in the concrete production process. The proposed systems consist of an industrial PC, Cardinal strain gauges and weigh indicators, PLC and software developed by Technika Company. In order to meet additional requirements such as measurement of moisture, the automatic dosing of chemicals we have developed two specialized subsystems: Dozel-5 for additives dosing and Hydrozel-5 for moisture control in the mixer. We use the top quality weighing equipment and the best microwave moisture probes from Hydronix.

The ElbetProfi System

The figure below shows a schematic view of batching plant. Programmable Controller reads all signals from the batching plant and controls the external actuators.

Weigh indicators are connected to the scales and read signals from load cells installed on the water, cement and aggregate scales. The controller can handle up to 8 different scales including cement, aggregate, add-mix, fresh and recycling water. The controller reads the inputs from water meter or a scale, conveyor limit switches and locates its position. The output signals control: mixer motor, discharge valve, aggregates valves, starting motors of cement screw feeders, and others. The controller is connected to a host computer providing interface for the operator. The computer is connected to a printer for printing delivery notes, recipes and reports.
Production is carried out in such a way that the operator selects the recipe, by which he wants to make concrete and then gives the size of the order. Knowing the capacity of the mixing system ElbetProfi automatically calculates the amount of batches and pouring begins while weighing of aggregate, cement and water. In the basic version, the operator can enter the water correction manually, since then the computer will dispense water given its size in proportion to the amount of resources in all batches.

The heart of the system is the Industrial Programmable Logic Controller and ElbetProfi computer software designed to automate production processes, especially those which require cooperation with load cells, electric motor control and interaction with the operator. Inside the machine, you can install meters directly connected to the scales. The device is enclosed in a housing enclosure, which gives it resistance to water, dust and dirt. On the front wall there is an operator panel and a desktop computer with one or two LCD screens and keyboard.
The first step after installation is to enter the number of basic parameters describing the plant such as capacity of the mixer, the minimum batch size, and time of pouring raw materials, the parameter of water meter, and much more. The final stage of the installation is to enter the recipes. The same formula is sufficient both to do a full mixer and its half, as knowing the size of the order, automatically measures a proportional a mount of raw materials.

Advantages of ElbetProfi System

The following are the major benefits of the proposed solution:

• Simplicity and ease of use
• Reports, batch tickets, transport documents
• Maintains a database of customers
• Maintains a database of cars
• Unlimited database of recipes
• It allows you to expand your system
• It allows you to easy access the back office software
  
• Works with Hydronix moisture probes

Certyfications and Approvals

Cardinal Scales ISO Certificate

Approval Office Certification

Opinia Katedry Robotyki i Dynamiki Maszyn AGH

Opinia Instytutu Mineralnych Materiałów Budowlanych

Manuals

Technical Manual (pdf 0,5MB)

User Manual (pdf 1,5MB)