SINGLE-LAYER ROLLER KILN HORNO DE ... - Sacmi Forni

Perfect controlNavegación perfectaThe kiln control panel providesthe user with centralisedcontrol of all the mainfunctions, temperature control,pressure control (whereincluded), product feed speed,production supervision,process data storage andgraph recordings ofthermocouple temperatures.Moreover, the electrical panelcarries out all those tasks thatmake kiln operation safe.In addition to the standardpanel, an optional versioncalled Sailor is also available.Touch screen control,an on-line kiln managementguide, slot-in static hard disksof the flash memory type andreal-time data back up arejust some of the featuresintroduced by Sacmi on thispanel.The new supervision andcontrol system, which uses theWindowsXP Embedded*operating system, featuresnot one but two computers sothat process control anddata handling can be doneseparately.Praktico, the “process PC”,runs the machine control andmanagement software whileTutor deals with supervision,communication and datahandling. In the event of amalfunction on the firstcomputer the second can beused to continue managingthe kiln production process(this is achieved by means ofa simple switching operation).Via an Internet connection theTutor PC can also provideremote assistance and datamanagement.Since 2 computers areavailable it is also possibleto apply, in real time,the above-illustrated Tutorsupervision procedures onthe Praktico computer.Sailor uses a “touch screen”interaction system, making it