Client Needs: Keep track of the total amount of material moving through a line for inventory tracking purposed
Proposed Solution: To maintain output speed, the product weighed while in transit from one position on the line to another with accuracy
Products Used: Tecweigh Weigh Belt
Result: Accurate accounting of product moved and processed
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Idaho Steel has been fabricating equipment for over 100 years. They specialize in food processing equipment and are one of the premier suppliers of potato processing equipment in the entire world.
Annik and Idaho Steel have worked together on several different projects. It is common in the potato processing lines built by Idaho Steel to need to track the amount of potatoes processed. This particular line needed to accurately track the total weight of potatoes processed while maintaining a high throughput of over 20,000 lbs. per hour. They needed to know that it would be ready on time and the solution would produce consistent, reliable results.
A Tecweigh Weigh Belt was integrated into the project. The weigh belt is rugged and dependable. It is able to monitor heavy weights within +/- .5% to .25% accuracy while moving material at a high rate. There are two common ways a weigh belt feeder is used. It can be used to inventory how much material is being processed to keep an accurate record of hourly, batch, and daily totals. It can also be linked to a PLC system that controls each piece of equipment on the line. The PLC can then take the weights provided by the weigh belt to adjust the speed of the rest of the equipment in the line to keep it moving at an optimal speed to process the most possible material without creating a bottleneck.
