Materials Handling: Networked Metal Separators Ready for Industry 4.0
Sesotec metal separators incorporate OPC-UA communications protocol.
At October’s Fakuma show in Germany, Sesotec GmbH ( U.S. office in Bartlett, Ill.) presented for the first time its Protector, Rapid Pro Sense, and GF metal separators with OPC-UA communications protocol integrated into their controls. These systems detect and separate magnetic and non-magnetic metal particles, even embedded within plastic pellets or regrind.
OPC-UA (Open Platform Communications-Unified Architecture) is becoming an international standard for “smart factories,” or Industry 4.0. With OPC-UA, these metal separators can communicate with central plant computers or directly with injection and blow molding machines and extruders to protect against damage and clogging of mold and die channels.
Related Content
-
Processors: Gear Up to Handle More Regrind
Plastics auxiliary and primary processing equipment was optimized for running pellets; here’s how you can adjust to the bulk density differences of flake and regrind in drying, conveying, mixing, feeding and processing.
-
How to Effectively Reduce Costs with Smart Auxiliaries Technology
As drying, blending and conveying technologies grow more sophisticated, they offer processors great opportunities to reduce cost through better energy efficiency, smaller equipment footprints, reduced scrap and quicker changeovers. Increased throughput and better utilization of primary processing equipment and manpower are the results.
-
ACS Adds to Southeast Sales Team
Alex Winchester to handle sales for Cumberland and Sterling brands in Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi.