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Grain Control Systems and handling facilities are increasingly required to add value to stored products through blending, treating or separating.

State of the art sequence and grain control systems improve product integrity, uniformity and production efficiency. Money in the Bank!

Grain Control Systems and handling facilities are increasingly required to add value to stored products through blending, treating or separating. Facilities are also under pressure to be able to perform receival, transfer and loading functions faster and more efficiently. Often a facility will be chosen as the supplier because of its ability to provide the customer with the appropriate product within a desired time frame. The facilities Grain control system plays an essential role in the effective and efficient operation of a product handing plant.

Effective process control technology improves product integrity, uniformity and production efficiency thereby reducing operating costs and providing a competitive edge. BULKmetrix draws on many years of experience in the grain handling business to provide state of the art sequence and blending control for optimum production and efficiency.

Important elements of BULKmetrix process control technology

Flowpath Control

• Efficient selection incorporating inventory and planning interlocks.
• Destination and Source based control functions.
• Intelligent plant interlocking for dynamic flow path changing.
• Real time activity events for production audit trails.
• Dynamic displays for focusing on production activities.

Ancillary and Path Conditional Processes

• Support plant control from the flow path context.
• Sampling plant control and data integration.

Product control

• Blend and Flowrate control.
• Commodity tracking at the product movement drive level.
• Quality tracking and dynamic inventory update.
• Path convergent point management.

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Logistics and Planning

BULKmetrix leverages the information from a real time integrated plant control & inventory repository to enable a business to better plan, schedule & operate its core plants.

Business Intelligence

The business of a bulk handling facility is to move commodities from a source to a destination. Business intelligence is calculating the real cost of doing the business.