CERAM E 0615

Dosing and mixing system

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Description

CERAM is a French specialist in dosing or mixing applications, extraction as well as automatic product preparation or transportation. CERAM has built its reputation on a strong know-how in powders and granulates dosing for food industry, chemical or pharmaceutical industry.

Customer need

For one of its customer, CERAM has to design a system to feed an extruder for candy production.

The system is based on two hoppers for powders storage, each being equipped with load cells for dosing control. A third hopper is dedicated to receiving and mixing the batch after dosing. The mixed material feeds the candy extruder on continuous process.

SCAIME solution

SCAIME provides a solution with Schneider Electric in the framework of a formal collaborative program. This partnership ensures a perfect interconnectivity between Schneider Electric automation products and SCAIME weighing devices.

In this solution, the M340 PLC takes care of drive and general system controlling while weighing measurement tasks are sub-contracted to the eNod3-D controllers. Each eNod3-D works in parallel and takes care of dosing batch control by unloading. In parallel, the M340 controls the mixer and the extruder feeding.

Customer benefits

  • Optimized architecture for best performances: devices being dedicated to tasks for which it is perfectly fitted.
  •  Easy and secured connectivity thanks to CANopen network.

SCAIME products:

  • 6 load cells F60X with mounting kits
  • 2 dosing controllers eNod3-D on CANOpen

Automation products:

  • 1 PLC Schneider Electric M340
  • 1 HMI Schneider Electric XBTGT 5230