Bulk Material Filling and Discharging Equipment Guide Book Assists In Bulk Material Handling Systems Evaluation
A guide book entitled, Automated Bulk Filling and Discharging Systems Data and Specifications is the first in a series of guide books being offered to assist production and process engineers, plant operations and management personnel, and corporate managers in their evaluation of application-specific, bulk material filling systems and bulk material unloading systems.
Automated Bulk Filling and Discharging Systems Data and Specifications Guide Book provides materials of construction guidelines; performance capacities, pressures, and accuracies; and electrical standards guidelines for multiple bulk material handling equipment types.
The Automated Bulk Filling and Discharging Systems Data and Specifications Guide Book details bulk bag filler systems, bulk bag unloader systems, and bulk container dumper systems. Specific content includes: materials of construction guidelines for structural framework and components; ranges of performance for operating capacities, pressures, and accuracies; and electrical standards guidelines for each bulk material handling equipment type. The guide book also presents the integrated automation capabilities of each system type and their ability to centralize multiple process controls, including upstream and downstream process operations, into a single, menu-driven controller interface. The guide book also offers a general overview of other bulk material handling equipment, including: bulk material mixing and blending, bulk material weighing, and bulk material storage systems.
The second guide book in this series is entitled, Sanitary Bulk Filling and Discharging Systems Data and Specifications, and is scheduled for release in June, 2011.
NTEP-certified Weighing on Bulk Bag Filling Systems
There seems to be an increased recognition throughout the industry of the process advantages, and financial value, of NTEP-certified weigh systems used in bulk bag filling and bulk container filling applications. NTEP may have once been perceived as only appropriate for pharma or other applications with cGMP; but, outside of that, accurate weighing was good enough. The industry is now recognizing, regardless of the application, accurate weighing is only of real value when it can be done consistently and repeatedly, and with the assurance that the weigh values are certified accurate. There are obvious advantages to precision weigh accuracy in bulk bag filling systems such as reduced material waste and eliminating re-work. NTEP-certified bulk bag filling systems provide those advantages plus reduced labor allocation, improved process optimization, and downstream (or customer-side) assurance that incoming packages are process-ready. NTEP-certified weighing is available for bulk bag filling systems as well as other bulk container filling systems, including drums, totes, gaylords, and others.