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Rail Demo
Location: Salisbury, MD
Model: CWC-108S– 10,000 BPH
Dimensions:
8′ x 8′ x 23′-7″ with 45° slopes. Includes 3′ of additional height in the upper garner.
Other Features:
Automatic Test Weight Lifting Equipment
(3) 200 lb. State certified NIST Class “F” cast iron test weights with NVLAP traceability
Paint Upgrade to Epoxy + 3’. This system is particularly recommended for Port locations with exposure to salt. Preparation includes bare metal Sp-6 commercial blast preparation with Zinc rich primer and epoxy top finish.
¼” Urethane metal backed liners in all (3) hopper cones and gate hogbacks
14” square lower garner discharge gate with rack & pinion, position potentiometer & double Solenoid for precision gate control.
Service Platforms on 1st, 2nd floor and top level with 15’ galvanized ladder with cage from ground floor to first level platform.
Replace standard roof manhole with P4 door
Added a 25″ diameter ventilation stub in roof of upper garner with rolled angle flange.
Certified and stamped engineering drawings
Control Equipment:
DWC-400 bulk weighing control system
PLC Integration enables the DWC-400 to be remotely controlled from a PLC. Provides comprehensive data on status of the scale. Scale will be animated on the automation system to leading HMI programs like Wonderware.
Allen Bradley Ethernet IP Communication Protocol .
40K – Preston, NC
Location:
Preston, North Carolina
Model:
CWC-4012S– 40,000 BPH
Dimensions:
12′ x 12′ x 31′-6″ with 45° slopes, height includes an additional 6′ upper garner extension for an extra 858 cu. ft. of space which provides approximately an additional minute cushion between rail cars.
Other Features:
¼” Ceramic tile scale liners on slopes and hogbacks
SP-3 surface prep with universal metal primer and industrial acrylic enamel
Service platforms on 1st, 2nd and top level access area
Automatic test weight lifting equipment
(3) 1,000 lb. State certified NIST Class “F” cast iron test weights with NVLAP traceability
28” square lower garner hydraulic gate with position translator for full position control
Other Supplied Equipment:
Support tower with ladders and platforms to access equipment
Automatic angled Gamet rotary cross cut sampler with ceramic liners
Rail load-out spout with ¼” ceramic tile liners with hinged design to lift spout out of rail envelope
Hydraulic accumulator to ensure main scale gates work under full power when rail load out spout is operating.
Plugged discharge spout sensor which closes lower garner gate if there is a blockage below the spout
Operator’s pendant to control the spout and the gate opening position of the lower garner gate
(2) 10’ x 10’ prefabricated control rooms. (1) for load-out operator and (1) for grader (see picture).
Control Equipment:
The scale is controlled by our top of the line GMS-4000 controller including:
- SmartTech that automatically monitors the scale for correct operation
- SmartRead that automatically reads the rail cars and calculates the optimum amount to load into each car. This information then feeds into the SmartCar database to calculate the optimum amount to load into each car so the that the loadlimit is not exceeded or the car physically runs out of space on light materials.
- Super SmartLoad that ensures that while the next car is moved into position the scale can start working on that car by filling the lower garner and the weigh hopper with two drafts, saving around 45 seconds a car.
20K – Omaha, NE
Location:
Omaha, Nebraska
Model:
CWC-208S– 20,000 BPH
Dimensions:
8′ x 8′ x 26′-1″ with 60° slopes plus an additional 4′ upper garner extension for an extra 252 cu. ft.
Other Features:
Abrasion Resistant 1/4″ 400 Steel bolt in liners in hopper cones and hogbacks
Service Platforms on 1st, 2nd and top level access area
Automatic Test Weight Lifting Equipment
(3) 500 lb. State certified NIST Class “F” cast iron test weights with NVLAP traceability
20” square lower garner hydraulic gate with single acting solenoid for full open/close control.
Certified and stamped engineering drawings
Other Supplied Equipment:
Support Tower with ladders and platforms to access equipment
Automatic Vertical Gamet rotary cross cut sampler
Control Equipment:
GMS-4000 bulk weighing control system w/SmartNet Modbus TCP/IP Ethernet Communications
SmartTech automatic scale diagnostics to tell operator when there is a problem. where the problem is located and how to fix the problem.
Wizard Reporting System that provide both standard reports and the ability for the manager to design custom reports without programming knowledge.
Customer needed an accurate transload scale for DDG at 20,000 bushels per hour. CompuWeigh provided the complete system including support tower, scale, sampler and the computer controls.
15K –Corvallis, OR
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Model: CWC-158S– 15,000 BPH
Dimensions:
8′ x 8′ x 25′-5″ with 45° slopes. The customer requested an additional 27′ of upper garner space providing a total of 1,820 cubic ft. in the upper garner, which offers 5½ minutes of safety capacity.
Other Features:
18” square lower garner hydraulic gate w/full open & full close control
Service Platforms on 1st floor and top level
Automatic Test Weight Lifting Equipment
(3) 500 lb. State certified NIST Class “F” cast iron test weights with NVLAP traceability
Certified and stamped engineering drawings
Control Equipment:
GMS-400 Windows based industrial computer system that works with SmartCar to automatically load railcars to the correct amount without overfilling with light materials or exceeding the load limit and being subject to fines and delays.
DWC-400 rack mounted bulk weighing control system
SmartRead RF antenna system that reads the tags on the side of the rail cars
SmartCar database that holds the entire fleet of covered hopper and tanker cars in North America and works with the GMS system to optimize rail car loading.
15K – Raleigh, NC
Location:
Raleigh, North Carolina
Model:
CWC-158S– 15,000 BPH
Dimensions:
8′ x 8′ x 25′-5″ with 45° slopes
Other Features:
Abrasion Resistant 1/4″ 400 Steel Scale Liners in hopper cones and hogbacks
Service Platforms on 1st, 2nd and top level access area
Automatic Test Weight Lifting Equipment
(3) 500 lb. State certified NIST Class “F” cast iron test weights with NVLAP traceability
Certified and stamped engineering drawings
Other Supplied Equipment:
Support Tower over single rail w/inner platforms at sampler and top level w/connecting ladders
Automatic Angular 16″ Gamet rotary cross cut sampler
Control Equipment:
CD-4000 bulk weighing control system w/SmartNet Modbus TCP/IP Ethernet Communications
SmartTech automatic scale diagnostics to tell operator when there is a problem. where the problem is located and how to fix the problem.
Bi-directional dual track rail loading
Location:
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Project:
New rail and barge load out
Automated equipment load out
New dual truck scales and grading
CompuWeigh Control Systems:
GMS-4000 bulkweighing control system
Elevator Automation
Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC
SmartRead rail car RF ID system
SmartLoad continuous weighing
GMS-Truck scale workstations for inbound and outbound platform scales and grading
SmartLink accounting system interface to AS/400
OTP-3000 Truck outside ticket printer
Introduction:
The customer substantially upgraded their operations by adding two new bins, basement reclaim conveyors, a new bulkweighing scale and leg, and a long Hi-Roller conveyor from the house to the barge and rail loadout area.
The customer also upgraded their receiving operation by adding a second truck scale and installing our GMS truck and grading system to improve speed, accuracy and integration to their AS/400 accounting system.
Rail & Barge Load Out:
The new bulk weighing scale is controlled by our state of the art GMS-4000 controller. Because of limited track space, cars are loaded on alternate tracks that are under the control of our SmartRead rail car RF id system with dual antennas.
Due to the length of the conveyor belt from the house, we provided our Elevator Automation system to ensure that the conveyor is correctly purged, grain is loaded to the correct track and all equipment is working within design specs.
Truck Receiving and Grading:
The truck system consists of an inbound scale that is controlled by our GMS-Truck scale system. During off-peak periods, this workstation also handles the grading process but during harvest a dedicated GMS grading computer is used.
The outbound scale is handled by another GMS-Truck workstation and to ensure that the scale never becomes a bottleneck, one of our OTP-3000 outside ticket printers has been installed 120 feet ahead of the scale so that by the time the truck arrives at the printer, the ticket is ready for collection. The printer contains an extra large roll of paper and tickets are semi-cut so that a hard pull by the driver only delivers his ticket and not a 100 feet of paper.
At the end of each transaction the completed information runs through our SmartLink accounting interface system that exports the data so it is correctly formatted for the IBM AS/400 accounting system.
Barge Loading:
The company used our Remote Operating System so that when the GMS-4000 is not being used to load rail cars, it is available for the barge loading operation. This double duty use of the scale control equipment reduced the overall cost of the system.
Four scales from one computer
Location:
St. Louis, Missouri
Project:
Controlling 4 bulk scales from one computer
CompuWeigh Control Systems:
(4) DWC-400 bulk weighing controllers integrated with the GMS control system
SmartLink accounting system interface to AS/400
OTP-3000 Truck outside ticket printer
Introduction:
The customer substantially upgraded their operations by adding two new bins, basement reclaim conveyors, a new bulkweighing scale and leg, and a long Hi-Roller conveyor from the house to the barge and rail loadout area.
The customer also upgraded their receiving operation by adding a second truck scale and installing our GMS truck and grading system to improve speed, accuracy and integration to their AS/400 accounting system.
Rail & Barge Load Out:
The new bulk weighing scale is controlled by our state of the art GMS-4000 controller. Because of limited track space, cars are loaded on alternate tracks that are under the control of our SmartRead rail car RF id system with dual antennas.
Due to the length of the conveyor belt from the house, we provided our Elevator Automation system to ensure that the conveyor is correctly purged, grain is loaded to the correct track and all equipment is working within design specs.
Truck Receiving and Grading:
The truck system consists of an inbound scale that is controlled by our GMS-Truck scale system. During off-peak periods, this workstation also handles the grading process but during harvest a dedicated GMS grading computer is used.
The outbound scale is handled by another GMS-Truck workstation and to ensure that the scale never becomes a bottleneck, one of our OTP-3000 outside ticket printers has been installed 120 feet ahead of the scale so that by the time the truck arrives at the printer, the ticket is ready for collection. The printer contains an extra large roll of paper and tickets are semi-cut so that a hard pull by the driver only delivers his ticket and not a 100 feet of paper.
At the end of each transaction the completed information runs through our SmartLink accounting interface system that exports the data so it is correctly formatted for the IBM AS/400 accounting system.
Barge Loading:
The company used our Remote Operating System so that when the GMS-4000 is not being used to load rail cars, it is available for the barge loading operation. This double duty use of the scale control equipment reduced the overall cost of the system.
High speed rail receiving and ship loading
Location:
Port of Grays, Oregon
Project:
New rail receiving and ship loading
Automated equipment load out
CompuWeigh Control Systems:
GMS-4000 bulkweighing control system
SmartRead rail car RF ID system
SmartLink accounting system interface
This ‘just in time’ export facility works without any storage bins! Unit train arrival is coordinated with an ocean going ship.
When the unit train arrives our SmartRead rail car RF ID system checks off each car against the Pre-Advise List sent electronically from Head Office. Cars not on the list are immediately flagged as are cars with missing tags. Our wheel sensor system counts the car axles to ensure that for every four axles we also read a tag.
To further improve the integrity of the system, there is an axle scale just beyond the dump pit. This also has a SmartRead rail car RF ID system and when the car is identified we look up its official tare weight and compare it to the weight on the axle scale. If we find a deviation, the car is manually inspected to ensure that it is completely empty. Also for cars that were not on the Pre-Advise List we ensure that the axle weight shows the full gross weight and that the car has not accidentally been emptied into the dump pit.
The GMS Wizard Reporting system provides a number of drill-down reports that show the distribution of the grain on the ship and reconciles each ship hold back to the batch and rail car.
SmartLink accounting interface is responsible for intpreting the Pre-Advise rail car data to create the In-Transit List and for providing completed transactions in both Excel and accounting format.
Multiple language support
Location:
Paraquay, South America
Project:
Truck receiving and shipping
Grading and accounting interface
CompuWeigh Control Systems:
GMS-Truck scale workstation for truck receiving
SmartLink accounting system interface
GMS has been designed so that nine foreign languages and English can be supported concurrently. All the menus, messages, screens and browse lists are shown in the required language. To ensure that IT staff can properly support their overseas customers, IT staff can see the same system running in English.
To provide increased flexibility, additional languages can be added to the system, without the need to understand English. For example to run the system in Brazil a person who spoke Portuguese and Spanish but who did not speak English could easily do this.
GMS Truck has full E.E.C. approval and is currently running in a number of European countries.
Multi-site truck processing
Location:
Woodland, California
Project:
Replace recently installed Truck and Rail Systems at five facilities
CompuWeigh Control Systems:
GMS-400 bulkweighing control system
GMS-Truck scale workstations for single and dual platform scales
SmartLink accounting system interface
Automatic interface to Dickey-john moisture meter
The customer upgraded their scale systems with another vendor’s system just four years earlier, but had to replace it because of its inflexibility, inconsistent accounting interface and lack of on-going support.
The company decided to install our GMS system at all five of their locations.
Simple Truck Weighing and Grading:
The truck driver positions his truck on the scale and then comes into the office to identify himself. The truck is weighed and graded then sent to the appropriate dump pit for unloading.
The truck returns to the scale, where the second weight is taken and the ticket issued to the driver. Using the SmartLink accounting interface the completed transaction is automatically formatted so that the data can be read by their Solomon Accounting system located at their Head Office.
More complicated Truck Weighing:
The customer has multiple locations and sometimes they need to start a transaction at one site and complete it at another. To make it even more complicated, they needed to take the tare weight from their platform scale and then send the truck over to the bulkweighing scale and load the truck to the legal maximum.
The GMS system is able to combine the weights from the platform and the bulk weighing scales and then make the transaction available over their wide area network so that when the truck arrives at another facility the transaction can be selected for final processing.
Simple Rail Loading and Receiving:
The customer typically receives 8-10 empty cars daily. The cars are manually identified, positioned under the spout and then the GMS-400 automatically loads them to their target weights. At the end of the transaction the information is sent to their accounting system using our SmartLink accounting interface.