"Cement kept hanging up in the hopper... It was a 600-lb load and production had to stop for an employee to bang on the hopper with a sledge hammer to get the material moving. This obviously damaged the hopper and ultimately made the sticking problem worse. We couldn’t consistently clear the scale or get accurate batch sizes, which was a real problem - both from a wasted materials standpoint and from a production quality standpoint. You c

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