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Lantmännen Agroetanol
Swedens largest plant for ethanol used as fuel in vehicles has started. The plant will produce 50,000 cubic meters of spirits a year from cereals such as wheat and barley. The need for raw materials in the facility places high demands during the process of weighing and measuring the goods. Tactile finds a solution together with the customer.
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Lantmännen Agroetanol is a producer of ethanol used as a fuel in vehicles.
It is Lantmännen Agroetanol in Norrköping, Sweden who has built this new plant for production of ethanol from grain. It has cost 40 million GBP.
In the old plant there was a manual check of the incoming and outgoing goods.
If the production of the new plant should reach the set production targets, it became necessary to streamline and increase capacity. The goal was to receive a new transport of grain every 6 minutes throughout the day. This put new demands on the large check that must be automated so that the driver could be left in the vehicle during the entire check-in procedure. In order to accomplish this, the weighing process needed to be automatic upon arrival and exit. During this process the transport must be identified so that the supplier may charge for its supply of grain.
Tactile was responsible for automating the check-in so that timing a car every 6th minute could be accomplished. This means that the driver would never have to leave the vehicle.
Solution
We built two check-boxes which were placed by the scale. One was for incoming and one was for outgoing transports. In the cabinet we have a Tactile computer connected to the internal data network. At a fixed scanner connected to your computer, and all mounted behind an anti-reflective glass, the driver presents his ID card in front of the scanner and gets the screen cleared when the weighing is OK. The cabinet of exit may also be a printed receipt for delivery via the printer that is in the cupboard. The facility has been an excellent success and Torbjörn Tingdal who is project manager is very pleased with the equipment and solutions supplied by Tactile.
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