Blender controls.

The company's batch weigh blenders are said to include all the features customers expect from a blender, including accurate load cells, reliable air cylinders air cylinder can mean:-

a gas cylinder used to store compressed air.
pneumatic cylinder, a mechanical device used to impart a force from a fluid.

and effective mixing chambers. The company also offers a state-of-the-art patented Allen-Bradley touchscreen See touch screen. controller on all of its batch weigh blenders. Instead of hard-to-use thumbwheels and obscure function keys that require stacks of user manuals and reference guides to figure out, this controller is intuitive and clear, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3. the manufacturer. The actual blender rate is said to be clearly displayed during operation, and the interface is said to guide the user easily through set-up and maintenance procedures. Recipes can be entered in one of three modes, including EZ Mode, Percentage Mode or Parts Mode. Recipes are said to be easily changed on the main screen by touching the corresponding hopper A tray, or chute, that accepts input to a mechanical device, such as a disk duplicator or printer. In the days of punch cards, millions of cards were numerically or alphabetically organized by placing them into the hopper of a card sorter, taking them out of all the stackers and putting number and entering the new percentage or ratio and then touching "accept new recipe." To save that recipe to the recipe book, the operator touches the "recipe book" icon and then the "save running recipe" button.

AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission

Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States
Atomic Energy Commission

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Date:	Mar 22, 2005
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