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The early bird catches the worm, an English proverb which dates back to 1670s, was evident in Austin,
Texas, USA in February when Kirby Bradley of chaired an early morning gathering of The Grain Elevator and
Processing Society (GEAPS) members under the banner of an Idea Exchange.
Each year a number of companies are selected to give brief presentations on how their product or idea
benefits the industry. This year 11 companies participated and presented their latest developments in just a
few minutes the microphone going dead when time was up.
The Idea Exchange is open to all registered attendees and the conference hall at 09:00 on Sunday February
28, 2016 was crowed with standing room only.
Milling and Grain presents six of the best ideas presented this year in our post-event report below:
by Albert
Middeke, President and owner of the Arnold
Company
The Rhino Railcar Vibrator Lifter removes the
danger of lifting, attaching and removing heavy
railcar vibrators.
Although very beneficial, railcar vibrators typically weigh between 6585lbs (30-40kg), making the task of lifting and maneuvering them quite
unsafe for one person.
The Rhino is powered by a pneumatic motor which operates a smooth
and powerful hydraulic system designed to safely and easily adjust the
vibrator height and angle with simple joystick controls. This enables a single
user to easily lift and align the railcar vibrator to attach and remove it from
the railcar pocket.
The vibrator and the lifter operate off of the same pneumatic line,
allowing the user to simply switch air power from the Rhinos hydraulics to
the pneumatic vibrator with the touch of a lever. Custom brackets allow
the lifter to be used with either roller vibrators or piston vibrators.
Email: albert@arnoldcompany.com
Website: www.arnoldcompany.com
Electro-Sensors Inc by Rick Eller, Sales and Business Development Manager, Electro-Sensors Inc
As crop production and facility automation
increase, requirements for hazard monitoring
systems to quickly and accurately detect and
report equipment failures also increase. This is
especially critical where undetected warnings
or slow responsiveness may lead to catastrophic
losses of human life or plant equipment.
Traditionally, bearing temperature warning and shutdown values were
fixed and did not compensate for fluctuating environments or seasonal
temperatures. The HazardPRO TM wireless system solves this by adding
ambient sensors in combination with equipment temperature sensors to
minimize false alarms while immediately notifying of legitimate warnings to
ensure equipment is safely managed.
Grain elevators incorporating HazardPRO utilize ambient sensors on each
side of the tail and head sections to continuously monitor temperature
changes and adjust warning and shutdown set points real-time and
in direct proportion with the current conditions. The resulting benefit
of ambient compensation is increased plant safety with fewer invalid
nuisance alarms.
Email: reller@electro-sensors.com
www.electro-sensors.com
4B Components Ltd
by Brian Knapp,
Vice President Electronics Division of 4B
Components Ltd
The Milli-Speed is a two-wire loop powered 4-20
mA analog output sensor. It is designed to detect
belt slip, belt under speed, stop motion, low speed
or zero speed on bucket elevators, conveyors,
airlocks, fans and other rotating machines.
The Milli-Speed is set to the machines normal running speed by simple
magnetic calibration. During calibration, the 4-20mA linear output signal is
automatically scaled for zero speed (4mA) to full speed (17mA) with over
speed detection (20mA). Unlike other 4-20mA sensors, the output signal of
the Milli-Speed is consistent over different shaft speeds, which eliminates
PLC or DCS programming errors.
The Milli-Speed is Class II Division 1 Groups E, F & G approved for
hazardous dust environments. Additionally, 4Bs SpeedMaster can be
used to verify the calibration of the Milli-Speed to ensure that the alarm
and shutdown features of your entire system are working correctly.
Email: bknapp@go4b.com
Website: www.go4b.com/usa
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