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Weighing systems, Strain gauges
News Release from: Schenck | Subject: Disobox
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 November 2005
Complex multi-functionality monitored by
radio!
Disobox will be at the centre of Powtech 2005: for the first time, visitors to Powtech can experience the functionality of all the system components of the Disobox, live!
Disobox is at the centre of Powtech 2005: for the first time, visitors to Powtech experience the functionality of all the system components of the Disobox, live! Interconnected by means of direct serial communication with the SolidsFlow fibrous material feeder - perfectly monitored electronically, via data transmission, by radio, using WLAN The future has already begun, Schenck shows this impressively with the demonstration of a sophisticated monitoring principle
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 12 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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To start with, the surprisingly simple assembly of the Disobox on site is convincing.
Compounding plants work with a unit weight acquisition and monitoring of each support point with four load cells of different rated capacities.
The data are simply transmitted into the user PC network via WLAN.
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In order to replicate on-site conditions, as far as possible, data transmission at a compounding plant has been simulated via Ethernet using WLAN and a serial communication link to the SolidsFlow fibrous material feeder.
Visitors see how the Disobox can turn any conventional analogue scale into a digital one.
In combination with the weighing electronics of the Disomat series or the PC software Disoview-E, highly precise multi-talented weighing systems evolve.
From our booth the operation as well as parameterisation and visualisation of scales is controlled via an industrial PC with touchscreen.
Customers and visitors can see at a glance the functions of the powerful network-compatible PC software Disoview E.
The legal-for-trade weight display can be integrated into any Windows programme, trouble-free and comfortably.
Convincing is also the distinctly improved process reliability: during commissioning, for instance, an exact analysis of the deadload distribution can be made as well as a convenient electronic corner comparison.
During operation, the load distribution on the scale is analysed and each load cell is individually monitored.
In case of faults the affected component is quickly detected.
In the end, this means a considerable saving in time, material, and cost as well as a distinct process safety.
Technical Data.
* Installation of the Disobox in a rugged housing of protection type IP 65.
* The unit comprises up to eight high-resolution signal channels measuring synchronously and additional binary inputs and outputs.
* Universal utilisation.
* When used as 8-times converter up to eight hopper scales can be acquired decentrally and interfaced directly with the existing host system via Profibus, DeviceNet, or Ethernet.
* Ethernet allows access to individual scales or - dependent on the configuration - individual load cells via the user intranet.
* Remote diagnostics and maintenance can thus be made quickly, easily, and at any time independent of the location.
* In asymmetrically structured systems load cells with different rated capacities can be combined to form one scale, even in legal-for-trade applications.
* Any components can be exchanged without re-adjustment/re-calibration.
Further information is available at our booth.
We are looking forward to your visit!.
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