Esempi di
applicazioni
Tank levels monitored with
WinWedge
For over seventy years, Bioproducts
Incorporated has been a leading developer and manufacturer of
solutions for livestock, poultry and pet food industries throughout
the world. Specialty items include, QC Choline chloride, Bioflavors
palatability, enhancers for pet foods, Ender Gill calcium salts of
fatty acid, Bufferight sodium bicarbonate, and Nutrius specialty
dairy products. Bioproducts Incorporated operates plants in
California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, and Nevada.
| The Louisville KY plant runs a
tank farm consisting of a series of silos and liquid tanks that
contain various raw materials and finished good products. Some
of these tanks are large and remotely located. The plant runs
24hrs a day 7 days a week. A normal week will consist of four
shifts with a shift supervisor on location at all times.
Bioproducts Incorporated is
another satisfied user of TAL Technologies WinWedge software.
The WinWedge software, resides on the shift supervisor’s Windows
95 PC allowing the tank farm to be monitored 24hrs a day. The
supervisor is responsible for watching the level of the tanks
for inventory and production reporting purposes. This was done
by installing a Milltronics multi-tank ultrasonic level
monitoring system. At fifteen second intervals, WinWedge sends
an ASCII message to the milltronics system requesting data.
WinWedge feeds this data over a DDE link into an Excel
spreadsheet and automatically runs an Excel macro to sort the
data. |
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Shift supervisors at the plant have
commented that they can not do their job efficiently without
WinWedge! Bioproducts claims they find WinWedge very useful. They
have purchased an additional copy for their Las Vegas facility. Mr.
Don Yates, Instrumentation Supervisor, comments that eventually, the
company would like to put this system on their WAN so it can be
monitored from multiple remote locations simultaneously. They are
looking at TCP-Wedge and TCP-Com to accomplish this.
Overview of the System
- Milltronics multi-tank
ultrasonic monitoring system measures the level in each tank.
- The data is sent directly to the
RS232 port of the Shift Supervisor's PC
- WinWedge parses, filters and
formats the tank lavel data and feeds the data real-time into an
Excel spreadsheet.
- The real-time tank levels can be
easily viewed and monitored in the Excel spreadsheet by the Shift
Supervisor.
Benefits
- Ability to plot real-time data
in Excel to monitor tank levels.
- Cost effective
- Very Easy to set up and use
- Ensures complete data accuracy
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