A lime quarry processes 8 million tons of limestone from four rotary kilns and six shaft kilns. Product is stored in surge bins and transported by conveyor belt scales

Entire refining and transport process is monitored by SIMATIC PCS 7 route control software. Software tracks and controls different belts and transfers.  

Compact MSI belt scale design makes it easy to install and with no moving or rotating parts maintenance is minimal

Machine and fabrication shop provides tooling, industrial equipment, and products arts to electronics, automotive, plastics and mining sectors

Siemens special triple beam parallelogram stainless steel load cells and SIWAREX WT231 used to build custom-designed high-resolution scale

Dusty and dirty machine shop environment does not impact performance of load cells which are IP67 rated and feature an outer cover to protect inner components

Mécatherm, situated in Barembach, France, is one of the biggest manufacturer of  bread baking production lines  for industrial bakeries

Objective to guarantee a high product quality by using very careful dough processing

For the new  dough separator machine, Tradivider, Mécatherm uses for the dosing of  the dough Siemens weighing technology, integrated into the distributed I/O system SIMATIC ET200 SP