Extrusion 4-2017

The Next Revolution in Conveying M oretto has long sought not only to develop pioneering and industry leading new products but also the ma- nagement systems that control them. Today Moretto is the only company able to provide both the in-house designed and manufactured products for both conveying as well overall system ma- nagement. At Moretto they call this sys- tem management the ONE WIRE SERIES. Included in the series are specialized EXA, ONE WIRE 3 and ONE WIRE 6 con- figurations and were developed with modularity and adaptability in mind so customers can grow and modify their management system as their plant con- ditions and requirements change. From two to up to six receivers Moretto offers the EXA system which adapts a three-phase conveying system with an integrated central control for true ma- nagement of the entire system. The name EXA is derived from Greek culture which considered EXI, or 6, to be the perfect number. In turn the EXA system is able to manage up to a total of six re- ceivers. EXA system clients have a dedi- cated electronic board developed to create a mini-centralized system with on- ly one vacuum pump and six total recei- vers. This system is specifically designed for dosing systems for up to six compo- nents and centralized systems manage- ment including gravimetric and/or volu- metric dosing units, loss in weight blen- ders, drying systems up to six hoppers and injection moulding machines. Continuous evolution in resin conveying systems has pushed manufacturers in recent years to release additional new features, such as pipe cleaning management for conveying regrind material, self-cleaning receiver filters and loading failure alarms. All of these features have now become standard in modern centralized systems and pose the question, what is the next evolution to come to market? 26 Material Handling Extrusion 4/2017 Moving beyond EXA and a requirement to manage more than six clients custo- mers can choose to upgrade EXA to the ONE WIRE 3 series. This upgrade pro- vides for the inclusion of a plc which adds centralized server functionality and the ability to add up to 80 total clients. Beyond this, ONE WIRE 3 builds on EXA providing a dual zone function that al- lows for management of two vacuum pumps connected to a single sorting sta- tion, machine que management and se- parate materials que management. Fur- ther users can manage the system with both a touchscreen central interface, the Master 300 control or the wireless Master 600 control. The ultimate expression in conveying sys- tem management is the Moretto ONE WIRE 6 series. It is the only system avail- able in the market today capable of au- tomatically adapting to dynamic changes in plant status. ONE WIRE 6 features all the ONE WIRE 3 skills, and improve them with the exclu- sive VIBE technology developed by Moretto that allows the system to auto- matically setup and optimize the quanti- ty of resin being conveyed. This differs significantly from a conventional system where the operator is required to set the