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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- Yes. BlendTrac centralizes inventory tracking across the plant, allowing users to monitor material usage, track quantities by material type, create a database of up to 1,000 materials and 1,000 locations, and generate inventory usage reports.
- BlendTrac helps reduce material costs by monitoring actual material consumption, providing insight into additive usage, and helping operators maintain accurate blend ratios. The software also supports inventory monitoring to help identify reorder points and improve material management.
- BlendTrac can log up to 5,000 consecutive batch weights and moitor key blending parameters to help identify trends and support quality initiatives. The software also records alarms and generates time and date stamped reports for quality control documentation.
- Yes. BlendTrac allows operators to monitor key blending parameters and quality data from a central or remote location, reducing the need to physically visit individual blenders throughout the facility.
- BlendTrac can monitor and control up to 100 compatible BD or OA Series blenders from a single system, allowing users to manage recipes, monitor performance, and review production data across multiple machines.
- BlendTrac can automatically generate time and date stamped reports, download inventory usage information, track run rates, compare target versus actual recipe setpoints, and export data for analysis using Microsoft Excel and Access.
- 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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