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    Weighers & Feeders

    Product considerations for vibratory feeding and conveying

    Rob Yandrick
    Jan. 17, 2024
    Technological advancements and an increasing shift toward automation have made vibratory feeders and conveyors more applicable than ever across nearly all industries.

    Weighers & Feeders

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    A pressure vessel is usually required to feed abrasive materials into pneumatic conveying systems or to feed material into high pressure conveying systems.
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    Table Talk Pies' C33 PlusLine checkweigher helps maintain product quality standards and maximizes yield
    For tanks, vessels, mixers or reactors, a typical weighing system configuration for a hazardous area uses intrinsically safe barriers to prevent energy and current from instruments in the safe area from crossing over to low-energy equipment in the hazardous area.
    Weighers & Feeders

    Weighing considerations for hazardous areas

    Scott Duncan
    July 16, 2018
    Hazardous area classifications are crucial to designing safety into weighing system components with an appropriate level of protection for different applications.
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    Weighers & Feeders

    Application Note: Optimizing container loads

    Nick Bowmar
    March 14, 2018
    How a fish oil processor reduced its shipping costs by 10 percent
    Weight calibration has changed. Weighing dates back more than 4,000 years, when merchants used balances to compare the weight of their product to known weights so they could sell their products in bulk. All graphics courtesy of Siemens
    Weighers & Feeders

    Modern weighing instruments offer flexibility in integration and application

    John Dronette
    Oct. 11, 2017
    Smaller size and increased communication capabilities make today’s weighing modules versatile for modern manufacturing processes.
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    Weighers & Feeders

    Defining feeder accuracy for continuous processing

    Sharon Nowak
    May 12, 2017
    At the heart of each operation is the loss-in-weight feeder.
    Figure 1. Typical dilute-phase positive pressure system | All graphics courtesy of Coperion K-Tron USA
    Conveyors

    Dense-phase conveying

    Sharon Nowak
    March 29, 2017
    Safe, efficient and gentle transfer for a wide variety of ingredients