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Expirience does matter - with over then 13 years of experience in rubber mixing our engineers gained great knowledge and experience which are now implemented and beeing used in our products. Furthermore our knowledge is successfully beeing used in rubber production by many factories in Europe, especially in Germany.

Our installations: Gummiwerk Kraiburg(Germany), RADO Gmbh(Germany), Phoenix (Germany), Compounds AG(Switzerland), Vredenstein (Holland), PTE (Germany), Trelleborg Ind AB (Sweden), Federal Mogoul (Belgium).

Introduction

Mixcont is a set of intelligent tools for the mixing room, including intelligent, adaptive, self-learning control system for rubber mixers and a wide range of supporting tools like statistical tools(including Mooney estimation at discharge moment), failure detection tools, laboratory management tools(LIMS), labour & machinery utilization tools . MixCont was introduced at the market in 1997 in Sweden. Since than it has been installed and successfully operates at a number of factories producing rubber compounds nearly for all the branches of rubber industry. Over the years the system has been controlling mixing of compounds based on tens thousands different formulations, improving quality of the most of the compounds and providing essential time and energy savings for the compounds’ manufactures. Further more usage of MixCont support tools additionally improves productivity and quality.

How it works

Mixcont system uses internal mixer with installed sensors and Mixcont data acquisition, processing and analysing units as device testing quality of the compounds while the mixing is running. The sensors and the data acquisition units provide the system with the values of signals, like the motor current, rotor speed, ram position (continuous signal), measurement of thermocouple and ram pressure. Mixcont data processing and analysing tools process, analyse and interpret the gathered data providing Mixcont control system with online information related to the mixing process. The information includes evaluation of changes in dispersion, distribution and plasticity of the batch during the mixing. It is taken as the basis for Mixcont control system to perform on-line automatic optimization of mixing process. The goal of the optimisation is to provide required dispersion, distribution and plasticity for every batch and within minimum possible mixing time. Another data used by Mixcont control system is also collected, processed and analysed with Mixcont tools. It is:

  1. Intelligence gathered during the mixing of the previous batches
  2. Process integral statistical data
  3. Detected state of the mixing equipment
  4. etc.
Results of Mixcont on-line automatic optimisation of mixing process are considerable improvement in final properties of rubber compounds and essential time and energy savings at the same time.

April, 2010

Publication in "GAK" (Gummi Fasern Kunstoffe) magazine

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December, 2009

Poster publication in "GAK" (Gummi Fasern Kunstoffe) magazine pub122009

Oktober, 2009

Publication about Dynamic mixing control in "GAK" (Gummi Fasern Kunstoffe) magazine

April, 2009

Poster & publication about MixCont in "GAK" (Gummi Fasern Kunstoffe) magazine download publication pub42009