Over our many years of business, WBA has had many opportunities to develop expertise in accurately feeding and dispensing product. Projects have included:
Auger Feed
With years of experience supporting an auger feeding OEM, WBA has programmed innumerable auger feeding systems. These have included simple clutch/brake or servo-based systems controlling the number of auger turns to control product volume as well as weight based feed systems to accurately dispense the proper amount of product by weight.
Liquid Dispense
Our work with a bakery equipment supplier led us to develop liquid dispense systems to accurately dose ingredients into mixers.
Bulk Feed Systems
We have developed control systems for accurately feeding bulk product. Our systems were implemented in Cement mixing applications and bakery mixing application.
Weighing
Our control systems have used scale feedback for accurately weighing product in bagging applications. These include coal bagging and cement bagging applications.
Complete Mix System
A customer had purchased a complete mixing system from Novaflow. WBA was engaged to provide the batching and storage controls to handle product between the mixing system and final use. While the project completed successfully, the customer was dissatisfied with the inability to customize the Novaflow system. In a follow-on project, the customer asked WBA to replace the PC-based Novaflow control system with PLC controls. WBA successfully integrated the multiple pumps, valves and weigh scales into the existing batch control plc, replacing the two Novaflow control PCs. The result was an open mix control system that integrated much better with the rest of the customers production facility.