Archive April 2013

The company Kithara Software from Berlin closes a gap and creates a coherent real-time cycle with image acquisition, image processing and output under Windows® through the new Vision Module. Previously, it was already possible to react to images in real-time which were acquired by GigE Vision® cameras. In order to obtain real-time for this process, the Kithara real-time driver signals the existence of the entire image to the network controller within a few microseconds after receiving the last parts of the image. The new software component now enables the immediate image processing in real-time by user’s image processing algorithms, as well as by the comprehensive image processing library HALCON™ from the Munich-based company MVTec. In this way, more than 1800 processing operators are available in real-time that enable the implementation of high-performance machine vision applications. The »RealTime Suite«, already used for many years by numerous manufacturers…

New brand names from MOLLET Füllstandtechnik Based on their experience our customers combine values like confidence, trustworthiness and safety with the products of MOLLET. Confidence is predicated on fair prices, high quality products and long term customer relationships. The trustworthiness results from absolute delivery reliability, fast reaction times and substantiated statements for our customers. For 30 years our owner-managed mid-sized company named MOLLET has provided innovative ideas and convincing products for more safety around bulk solids and has of course offered customized solutions as well. That gives our customers the good feeling to have chosen the right product. In order to communicate these core values of our brand even better, all product lines of MOLLET Füllstandtechnik GmbH get a new sounding brand name on the occasion of the 30th company anniversary. These brand names have been subject to high requirements. They should document the long history of the company, make a reference to the…

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In February 2013, almost 9 years after introducing VEGAPULS 68, the first radar sensor for bulk solids, VEGA have delivered the 100,000th sensor. "This production milestone carries forward the success story of radar level sensors in process automation. Today, they are the all-round level transmitter for liquids and bulk solids," commented Günter Kech, Managing Director. "Radar technology is on a success trajectory and we will ensure that it stays there, by further simplifying the level measurement of bulk solids with radar in the future." The 100,000th bulk solids radar instrument is a VEGAPULS SR 68. The landmark sensor went to Bühler AG in Switzerland. This Swiss technology group is using it for level measurement in a 25-metre-high cement silo. Radar for solids VEGA Grieshaber KG launched VEGAPULS 68, the first radar sensor specifically tailored to applications in the bulk solids industry, on the market in 2004. Compared to radar sensors…

Laboratory fluid bed all-rounder now available in its 100% explosion pressure proof PRO version Glatt"s ProCell LabSystem – the most flexible laboratory fluid bed unit on the market – will be introduced in a fully explosion pressure proof PRO version at POWTECH 2013. Integrated in a mobile main unit, this modular lab all-rounder thus allows the use of all process options for batch and continuous fluid bed, spouted bed or rotor processes for a great variety of material systems such as powders entailing the risk of dust explosion up to hybrid mixtures. This compact and modular lab system allows you to process all dusts of the classes St-1 and St-2 as well as organic solvents. Users can benefit from considerable savings in safety reviews prior to trials or production while being prepared for the processing of future product generations. Using the proven concept of "avoiding ignition sources" an explosion is very unlikely. If an explosion occurs nevertheless, it will be enclosed within the explosion pressure proof ProCell LabSystemPRO and there…

Automatic order picking with Prorunner mk5 Qimarox has developed a new automated order picking system ‘Collect & Sort’, which can handle up to a thousand products, containers, or cartons per hour. Central to this system is the Prorunner mk5, the successful vertical transport system from the company that evolved from Nedpack in 2012. Products from conveyor channels at different levels are fed out fully automatically and placed on the correct outfeed conveyor in the direction of the forwarding department or palletising station. Qimarox’ ‘Collect & Sort’ automated order picking system consists of several levels of conveyor channels in which products can be stored. A short roller conveyor module moves back and forth at the front of the conveyor channels on each level. This module retrieves the items in the correct order from the conveyor channels and transports them to the Prorunner mk5, the vertical transport system of Qimarox. This system receives the products from all levels and places them in the…

Between April 23rd to April 25th 2013, PENKO Engineering B.V. will present their new product line at the Nürnberg Messe POWTECH 2013 in Nürnberg, Germany. The new product lines include the following: • PENKO 960 Indicator • SGM700 Amplifier series • PENKO 1020 range of products • FLEX2100 Controller range of products • FLEX Controller range of products All new products are fully aligned with each other. PENKO instruments cover the entire automated spectrum of a process control environment, from reading out and indicating a weight value to the simultaneous process of checking and controlling a maximum of 4 different weighers. By joining multiple instruments, control concepts for up to 256 weighers can be built. In addition to the complete range of weighing instruments, weight controllers and process automation systems, PENKO also is an all-round load cell supplier, covering the brands Ascell, Flintec, Revere, Sensortronics, Tedea Huntleigh and…

Further development of the Master-PUR hose range now provides even more benefits for the customer All good things come together in one great hose range. Due to a key modification of the Master-PUR hoses, they now become Multifunctional Hoses, which combine both microbe resistance and antistatic properties in one. This makes the product range much clearer for the customer and therefore easier when ordering. The product range will still be called Master-PUR as before, but will now offer greater advantages. The wealth of complex requirements for connection solutions in today’s industry is almost unlimited. That’s why the Master-PUR range has always been so popular and widely applied. As suction and transport hoses made from pure polyester polyurethane with a twist/dislocation-proof spring steel helix moulded directly into the hose, they are extremely versatile and durable, offering applications in almost any industrial conditions. The hose range comes in a wide spectrum of wall thicknesses, from lightweight and medium through to heavy-duty, reinforced versions. In…

Safety valves provide numerous advantages, opening when pressure becomes too high and automatically closing after venting. However, an immense drawback is that safety valves are very maintenance-intensive, and present the disadvantage of not providing leak tightness. In turn, this results in huge material wastage and rising emission rates. Just in the Netherlands, this results in an annual loss of raw materials loss of gases and liquids of approximately 106,000 tons. With a calculated average price of 700,00 EUR/ton, this results in a loss of 75 mio. EUR/year. When adding the leakage losses resulting from shaft sealing, an additional 383.000 tons/year is achieved; e.g. an amazing 268 mio. EUR, only for the Netherlands. The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has discovered that 40.000 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) alone have been annually emitted in the USA. Besides the economic damage, environmental contamination also remains a topic. Based…

How operators not only increase production safety but also reduce costs by using groundbreaking protection against dust explosions and what part new standards play. New, groundbreaking methods of calculation: less volume means smaller venting areas The KSt value, among others, is influenced considerably by the dust concentration. In terms of designing pressure relief suitable for practice, a realistic dust concentration for spray-driers is assumed. This is different to the concentration with which maximum violence of explosion is to be expected. Extensive analysis and concentration measurements by experts from the VDI working party allow for a new, groundbreaking method of calculation. This leads to significant reductions in the venting area required, de facto to smaller or a lower number of bursting discs. However, since every protection system is connected to the container to be protected, the risk of undesired product contamination is a concern due to the…