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Helping rubber compounding become more profitable with automatic and semi-automatic minor ingredient batching systems, bulk batching and mixer control and monitoring. Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. custom engineers batching systems for minor ingredients, bulk material batching control, liquid dosing and mixer monitoring and control. These systems are employed to manufacture many types of rubber products, […]
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Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. designs material weighing and ingredient batching systems for dusty, difficult to handle powder and bulk solid, sometimes hazardous, materials. Dust containment is essential to protect personnel and equipment. These systems are all custom engineered and can be equipped with dust control and containment options, including a dust collector (typically baghouse […]
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What is the most common way to batch ingredients for rubber? This is typically called rubber compounding. What is compounding in rubber processing? Rubber compounding or formulation refers to the addition of certain chemicals to raw rubber in order to obtain the desired properties. The well-known chemicals are cross linking agents, reinforcements, anti degradants and […]
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Automatic minor batching system for rubber is one of the most important aspects of rubber compounding. Accuracy of weighing materials and batching controls for profitable products. Accurate weighing and batching. Flexible, high quality. Custom engineered to your specific objectives is necessary. Read more here.
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Ingredient batching for rubber compounding requires process knowledge and an expert level understanding of material weighing and batching system control/automation. Ingredient batching for rubber requires a custom engineered and manufactured automatic batching system for high productivity and value. A hybrid ingredient bulk material batching system combines minor bin and bulk bag ingredient batching providing automatic […]
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OVERVIEW: A Global manufacturer and leader in hydraulic hose manufacturing and supply contracted with Sterling Systems & Controls to create a custom engineered batching and mixing controls for the rubber industry to improve the rubber compounding batch integrity and increase overall production through automation. THE CHALLENGE: The customer needed to update its existing aged batching […]
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Well that is an excellent question, “what is a rules table”. A Rules Table can also be referred to as a Decision Table. Being unaccustomed with the intricate details of modern controls and automation engineering you might hear and wonder about a “rules table”. So, what is a rules table? A Rules Table, in the […]
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OVERVIEW: Sterling Systems and Controls, Inc. supplied a Micro and Minor Weighing System with Bulk Bags to a large producer of animal food. The system supplied by Sterling Systems is responsible for reducing batch cycle times and improving ergonomic labor conditions and accuracy of all weighments. Whether for pet food or livestock feed, Sterling Systems […]
Read More Sterling, IL, For Immediate Release: Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. announces availability of its automation application module for ingredient batching controls for the batching of solids and liquids, such as for ingredient batching in feed, recipe batching in baking and food, rubber compounding and many other industrial applications. Batching systems are known as Micro, Minor, […]
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Does your financial success rise and fall (pun intended) on your bread making skills? Sterling Systems can help you realize your current and long term goals. In this example case the bread batching system consists of both an automatic and a semi-automatic (operator made weighments) batching process. The automatic process automatically dispenses ingredients from eight […]
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