Precia-Molen install new weighing system for Dengie Crops Ltd

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Precia-Molen has recently installed a weighing system for Dengie Crops Ltd who is the UK”s leading grower and producer of Alfalfa, which is used in the production of high quality animal feeds.

The Dengie range of versatile alfalfa based products can be fed as an alternative to cereal based diets, combined with other concentrates such as Dengie Fibremix, or used to extend or replace forage into a horse or pony”s diet.

In the production process horse feed is dried, baled, manually tested for moisture, weighed, automatically stacked and manually tagged. Bales with excessive moisture are manually removed from the stack.

Precia-Molen has supplied a set of R2 weighbeams -1000kg x 0.2kg and installed them beneath an isolated section of the conveyor line within the stacker cage.

An I 500 touch screen terminal (with bespoke application software, Ethernet and TOR parallel I/O module) logs the weight of each bale against pre-entered source details and marks rejected bale records.

Precia-Molen also installed SQL Interbase driver on the accounts and operations manager PC’s and configured a simple query for MS-Excel to provide production data.

Bob Turner of Dengie Crops, commented, “We were very happy with the installation which was completed within the time frame allotted.”

Phil Black - PII Editor

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