Controls upgrade for MBL Corp in USA

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Oct 7, 2005

The Chronos Richardson advanced CR600XP Process Control system is being supplied as part of a major controls upgrade for MBL Corp, a subsidiary of the Japanese Corporation Mitsuboshi Belting

The Chronos Richardson advanced CR600XP Process Control system is being supplied as part of a major controls upgrade for MBL Corp, a subsidiary of the Japanese Corporation Mitsuboshi Belting.

The MBL Corp compounding facility in Ottawa, Illinois manufactures a range of transmission and drive belts for the worldwide automotive and recreational vehicle sectors.

The innovative CR600XP control system will replace two of the factory's existing control systems.

Firstly CR600XP will replace a CR1000 control system originally supplied by Chronos Richardson in the mid-1990s, which provided the batch weighing control and materials traceability for carbon black preparation and an off-line small chemical weighing system.

Secondly the new CR600XP will also replace a Henderson, PLC based control system that currently controls the mixer and the preparation of oils.

Polymer additions are made by hand.

CR600XP will provide batch weighing control of all the compounding line weighing activities [carbon black, polymers, oils and small chemicals], control of the mixer and an integral MTS software package will facilitate material tracking throughout the mixing room, from material intake through to compound batch-off.

"Having worked closely with MBL Corp for many months on this upgrade project we are pleased that the CR600XP has been selected for total control of their mixing room" commented Technology Director for Chronos Richardson Systems Europe, Steve Saunders.

He concluded, "As well as improving operational safety and reducing plant downtime at the factory CR600XP is also replacing obsolete control systems, which will ensure MBL Corp achieve full material traceability for every batch of compound produced.

This will enable them to fulfil the quality control expectations of all of their customers for many years to come".