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The KSE Dosing Design Analysis Tool is a comprehensive solution that helps achieve excellent dosing accuracy and high capacity for raw material handling in various production environments. By gathering relevant process requirements and testing multiple process designs using computer models and simulations, this tool eliminates risks and reduces unforeseen costs. It requires data on recipes, raw materials, production, and current infrastructure of the plant. The results generated include proposed weighing systems, dosing slides, and the number of silos required for optimal production capacity.
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The KSE Dosing Design Analysis Tool supports your search for the right solution for the dosing and weighing of raw materials. It helps you achieve excellent dosing accuracy combined with high capacity, considering the flow characteristics of the product and the production environment. Why this way? Well, as the saying: a good start is half the battle. Especially with the data we have at hand and the technology that can provide us with so much valuable insight to eliminate costly mistakes later. The diagram below shows how a standard project proceeds, and the preferred position of the dosing design analysis: Definition Concept Design Engineering Construction Implementation Support Dosing Design Analysis Proces Design Simulation Mechn.Autom. Elec. Project Plan, Budgets Definition The first step to determine the appropriate design by gathering relevant information on your process requirements. This means gathering customer requirements, specific local requirements and such to draw an outline of the project scope. Concept design In this step we test multiple possible process designs by use of computer models and simulations. In a matter of hours, we run years of virtual production through each process design, defining the optimal flexible design based on the parameters in the definition phase. Engineering Multidisciplinary teams engineer the complete mechatronic solution for each project. Mechanical, electrical and software experts cooperate closely to ensure each system is designed according to the latest quality, safety and performance requirements. All information should be at hand for a swift production process on time and on budget. Construction In this step engineering drawings are transformed into reality. Our equipment is constructed using a modular approach, enabling easy transportation and quick installation on site. Implementation During the process of installation, commissioning, testing and optimizing, your operators are trained to ensure that everyone is prepared to deliver an optimal performance every day. Support / Care In order to ensure that our customers can continue to run a production according to the full potential of their factory, our experts remain involved to provide support; from bottleneck analysis of a production line to sourcing the right spare parts for the next scheduled maintenance stop.
Step 1: What data do we need for the Tool? Basically, we require all data related to your recipes/formulations, raw materials, production and the current infrastructure of your plant. Recipe data:
How to provide this data? You will receive an Excel template file from us to fill out. Experience tells us that nowadays all the above- mentioned data can be extracted quite easily from optimization and/or ERP systems. Typically, we as well as our customers work with a signed NDA-agreement in this stage. This ensures that both your data and our knowledge will only be used for your project and will not end up in the wrong hands. Step 2: What is the purpose of the data? All the above-mentioned data supplemented with our know-how is brought together in the KSE Dosing Design Tool. We add our specific knowledge on machines, designs and other historic data from many running systems with anonymous data and measure the dosing speed and accuracies in relation to the design and needed production statistics. Flow characteristics of raw materials are determined either by experience from the past or by research with test equipment to determine the flowability and flood ability. We also investigate additional activation options such as the use of stirring devices, bellows, etc. Step 3: What results are being generated? The analysis will generate solutions for multiple scenarios such as to be deployed weighing systems, with corresponding dosing slides and the number of silos that are appropriate for your formulation and desired production capacity. The report that will be compiled for you will contain the following content: A summary of assumptions:
An overview of raw materials (silo):
What’s next? Possible next steps include mechanical pre-engineering, automation and simulation. In this process we integrate the weighers and silos into the design and look into the process of the discharge of the weighers to the mixers and the filling of the raw material silos. It goes without saying that, always, we are taking your starting points into account, such as: cost, energy consumption, contamination, product handling and charge, whether it concerns a greenfield or brownfield project. Would you like to know more about the Dosing Design Analysis Tool? E-mail us at [email protected].
