Proper planning and equipment allow a feed mill to function seamlessly with minimal oversight or supervision. There are numerous ways to enhance feed mill efficiency. Some ways include reducing maintenance costs, improving production speed, reducing error and waste, reducing downtime, improving safety, and more.
WAYS TO IMPROVE FEED MILL EFFICIENCY
Finding significant water retention gains, quality modifications, and new efficiencies in a feed mill can lead to savings, lower carbon footprint, and more efficient production. Whether poultry, dairy, aqua, or swine, livestock producers operate in highly competitive conditions. Efficiency across the supply chain can yield outstanding results from moderately low investment.
BULK BAG INGREDIENTS AND UNLOADING
Bulk bags can enhance feed mill efficiency in various ways. While effective ingredients, such as grain and other kernels, profit from the cost savings and quick packing of bulk component warehouse and dispensation, minor and microelements often don’t.
Substituting 50lb bags with bulk packs can make unloading more efficient, decrease worker injuries from redundant stress, and equip expense savings from purchasing bulk. Pushing this modification is easy, too. You’ll need to look for a dependable supplier who dispatches your ingredients in bulk, which your existing supplier might already provide. You’ll also require a super sack or a bulk bag unloader that is strong and trustworthy. With some bulk bag unloader design optimization tips, you can guarantee that material moves through the bag smoothly without needing overseeing.
AUTOMATION OF DOWNSTREAM ROUTING
Making sure that the component finds its way to the right bin during loading may be as uncomplicated as pushing a button, but it can be straightforward. Automating the downstream routing method guarantees that material moves into the subsequent bin when filling the last bin. There is no delay if an employee moves away from the routing mechanism to deal with another equipment or task.
To achieve this, you’ll need sensors incorporated into the control system. Reassigned sensors or level indicators will tell the system when to change the position of the turnhead and reposition the material to the new bin.
AUTOMATION OF MICROINGREDIENTS
Micro components can give many challenges. This method also suggests the possibility of enhancing feed mill efficiency.
Microcomponent systems must be accurate as well as fast. Automating this procedure allows nominal ingredients or micro-ingredients to be counted similarly to macro elements. The system will feed, weigh and distribute micro-ingredients into the mixer instead of hand-adding them with a pre-weighed scoop. Employees are then free to take on more pressing assignments, which terminates the possibility of human error that can result in adding too many scoops or forgetting a scoop.
CORRESPONDING MIXING AND FILLING TIMES
There’s no inoperative time when the mixer and scales work in perfect symmetry. This maximizes the machines’ productivity and enhances the feed mill’s efficiency. To conform to these processes, you must assess how long each process takes to cycle, fill, settle, weigh, and release.
Calculate how long it takes all elements to load, settle, weigh and then release into the mixer. Then, assume how long the mixer needs to mix the ingredients sufficiently. If the mixer is sitting idle while the scales are still loading, assess how you might quicken up this procedure by adding a scale or speeding up the filling process. If the scales are waiting for the mixer to complete, you can hasten up this procedure by adding a mixer or adjusting the mixer or agitator profile.
MONITORING YOUR EQUIPMENT
When sensors work with your control system, you can control the damage and risks, decrease maintenance needs, and schedule downtime. There are numerous ways to monitor your equipment. Monitoring the oscillation or temperature of the bearings on a grinder or conveyor can prevent uneven wear.
These sensors can also indicate if a pebble or another object is impairing the machine. Observing the temperature of the bearings can prevent deterioration due to overheating from friction. This can also be a source of sparks, which can provoke a fire or explosion in conditions with extreme dust, like a grain elevator shaft.
DECREASING DAMAGE
A machine damaged during production can close down the entire facility and drive costly downtime. Preventive maintenance is critical to prevent these circumstances. Maintaining bearings lubricated on all machines, holding the seals maintained on mixers, inspecting the tensioning on drive belts and chains, cleaning intervents, and checking electrical components can help. A well-defined timetable will prolong the lifetime of your machines and decrease the need for costly repairs.
Use these advancements to improve feed mill efficiency and safety. With the correct planning, you can make your machines work seamlessly and build a workplace that is both secure and highly productive.
HOW CAN WE HELP?
Assure that you are properly equipped for production. To achieve your goals, finding the right developer is crucial and necessary. VSM designs high-quality modern European feed mill equipment with local steel structure and support components. Our designs are made to consider Philippine standard feed operations and formulations.
The services we offer are:
- Design to installation as well as customer service after sales. We also provide consultancy for Mill and Facility process and operations optimization.
- Existing Facility Revamping and Enhancements
- Feasibility Analysis
- Investment – Management , Cost Control, and maintenance
- Master planning for long term strategy
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