BlendTrac® Software – Enabling Smart Blending
BlendTrac® Software
Enabling Smart Blending
BlendTrac® Software collects useful data to help your factory use raw materials in a smarter way. This powerful software is used to centralize inventory control, optimize quality and reduce labor and material costs. BlendTrac® aggregates and presents blending data in a way that helps your operators make well informed decisions and reduce errors.
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- Eliminate manual labor dedicated to inventory tracking at each blender
- Download reports on inventory usage
- Track quantity and material type used plant-wide
- Monitor actual usage of materials to signal reorder
- Create resin database of up to 1,000 unique materials and 1,000 locations
- Connect vendor PO for each material
- Log quality metrics on up to 5,000 consecutive batch weights to monitor trends
- Monitor system parameters to improve quality through data acquisition and graphing
- Create blending recipes to avoid manual input errors
- Generate time/date stamped reports and log alarms for quality control
- Monitor key blending parameters/ quality from central or remote location rather than visiting each individual blender
- Reduce cost by precise usage of expensive additives and materials
- Make production changes easy by accessing “millions” of your company’s blending recipes
- Maintain up to 100 blenders, monitoring and controlling different recipes for each blender - remote
- Compatible with Windows 11, 10 and 7
- Monitor and/or control up to 100 BD or OA blenders
- Monitor and control recipes for each blender
- Log up to 1000 alarms per blender
- Log up to 5000 consecutive batch weights (target vs actual weights)
- Monitor and record all recipe changes
- Monitor material inventory, even if cleared at the blender
- Data compatible with MS Excel and Access for analysis
- Central System Inventory and Silo Management capability
- Download inventory run rates, run status, target vs. actual recipe set points
- Store an infinite number of recipes (limited only by hard drive space on computer)
- Download recipes to blenders from the recipe book
- Automatically generate time/date stamped reports on an hourly basis
- Two tier password security
- Job Report Manager that tracks material reference numbers as well as lot numbers and silo numbers
- Allen Bradley Micro850 PLC
- Each blender must have an Ethernet switch installed P/N 893.00040.00
- All blenders and the host PC must be on the same Ethernet network. The network installation should use CAT5 cable and be installed by a professional. AEC/Sterling does not provide installation services for the Ethernet network.
- If you have a legacy blender that does not have an Allen Bradley Micro850 PLC, an upgrade kit may be available. Contact us for more information.
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