• A software package developed in MS Windows environment that provides a consistent process control and data management of the production plant.
• It is based on an integrated data acquisition system which can connect the DOTECO gravimetric units to a personal computer.
• The communication via Ethernet guarantees security, high communication speed and immunity against interference in heavy‐duty industrial environments.
• Connection up to 20 extrusion lines
• Management of databases for process parameter storage. Recipes storing, upgrade and download on-the-fly.
• Raw material manager: stored with numerical code and description.
• Blending recipes manager: to create or modify and store blending recipes with numerical code and description.
• Melting profiles manager: to create or modify and store melting profiles with numerical code and description.
• Extrusion recipes manager: to create or modify and store extrusion recipes with numerical code and description.
• End product manager: to create or modify coded end products. Each product code is assigned to a blending, extrusion and melting temperature recipes.
• Order manger: to create or modify a list of job orders containing useful data for identifying and tracking each order. Each order is assigned a product code.
• Recording of the quantity of raw material used in the process.
• Totaling by ingredient.
• Recording of alarm events.
• Statistical process analysis (SPC) for blending and extrusion data.
• Data exporting for further analysis by user programs (Lotus, Excel).
• Inventory report viewing and printout: sorting by product code, job order, recipe and date.