Dust Containment is Essential

dust collection in batching systems

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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Automatic Minor Batching System for Rubber

automatic minor system for rubber

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

Ingredient Batching for Rubber

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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Dust Containment for Ingredient Batching Systems

Ingredient Batching Systems Provided with Dust Collection and Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. custom engineers ingredient batching systems for dusty, difficult to handle materials, sometimes hazardous materials. Dust containment for ingredient batching systems is essential to protect personnel and equipment. Sterling’s ingredient batching systems are often equipped with dust containment and collection systems, including a dust collector (typically baghouse design), dust collector hoods […]

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Upgrading Bakery Batching System

Upgrade Bakery Batching System

So you have an existing bakery batching system.  You need help upgrading bakery batching system?  Let’s examine an application where that took place. A customer asked Sterling Systems to analyze their existing batching system and do a batching system upgrade using mixing bowls as the batch container. This resulted in offering upgrades to reduce manual […]

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What is a Rule Table

Ingredient Batching Controls key to process efficiency

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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Bakery Mixer Control

MIXER CONTROL SCREEN

The following are a few examples of Sterling Systems & Controls bakery mixer control applications: Multiple food ingredient bins/totes Food grade stainless steel table(s) Moving weigh table w/scale and touchscreen display PC control with weight instrument From sequencing and verification of operator interface steps at the mixer, to the automated ingredient tracking from receiving of […]

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Hybrid Material Weighing and Batching System

Mechanical Conveying Automatically Discharges Batches

Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce in its line of material weighing and batching systems, the availability of customized ingredient hybrid weighing and batching systems with Micro, Minor and Bulk weighments, processing both dry and liquid ingredients.  Each automatic Accu-Portion™ Micro and Bulk Batching System is custom designed and manufactured to meet […]

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Multiple Batching Stations

MIXER CONTROL SCREEN

Bakery batching systems are considerably more simple than their Feed Mill batching system counter parts. In this application we implemented multiple batching stations. Usually there would be a single batching station. This customer application was provided with three batching stations using a single Allen Bradley PLC controller. They have two areas, entitled the “Frozen” and […]

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Custom Batching Systems Prewired

Prewired Batching System

Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. is the leader in custom engineered and manufactured automatic Material Batching and Weighing Systems.  These custom batching systems prewired are automatic ingredient batching systems supplied “Prewired” for easier and less costly overall installation. System wiring can be done to whatever electrical code requirements you might have. If a custom batching […]

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