Key Insight: “With the newly implemented control philosophy, the infeed system is now able to respond dynamically to the forever changing conditions of the process” Our Goal: A client’s infeed circuit was controlled solely in manual mode. The operator had the responsibility to control each individual Apron feeder from a set of five hoppers in order to control the rate into the main infeed conveyor belt. As a result of manually controlled Apron feeders the main infeed conveyor rate will oscillate between exceeding the nominal capacity of the conveyor and virtually constraint the plant then the Apron feeders were left running at low speeds. Our Solution: > Understand the current production requirements and the desired behaviour in order to maximise throughput without affectin

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