Cheese is fast food for French market.The latest bespoke be·spoke v. Past tense and a past participle of bespeak. adj. 1. Custom-made. Said especially of clothes. 2. Making or selling custom-made clothes: a bespoke tailor. cheese cutting machine from Northwood Food Machinery of Stoke-on-Trent provides precision portioning of blocks of cheese that weigh up to 85kg. This has drastically cut the time for the task and gives accurate and repeatable results every time. The control and accuracy of movement of the blocks of cheese through the machine is attributed to the choice of Commander SK AC drives from Control Techniques. The machine is now installed in Dijon at Tippagral, S.A., a leading supplier of cheeses for the wholesale and food manufacturing markets in France and central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. . The machine is divided into four conveyor sections, each driven by a 0.37kW Commander SK AC drive. The incoming conveyor's role is to ensure a fixed pitch between the cheeses as they move through the machine. The second conveyor section moves the cheese into the machine and, when the way is clear, on into the third section. This conveyor has optical sensors that feed back to the controlling PLC which initiates a rapid stop exactly between two pneumatically pneu·mat·ic also pneu·mat·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to air or other gases. 2. Of or relating to pneumatics. 3. a. Run by or using compressed air: a pneumatic drill. controlled 'pusher-plates'. This is to ensure that the cheese is absolutely central on the conveyor. After being centralised Adj. 1. centralised - drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; "centralized control of emergency relief efforts"; "centralized government" centralized , the cheese is moved by the next Commander SK on to the lift section of the conveyor and is stopped at the required position. It is then elevated by scissor-lift to in front of the cutter section, where a heavy duty pneumatic pneumatic /pneu·mat·ic/ (noo-mat´ik) 1. pertaining to air. 2. respiratory. pneu·mat·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to air or other gases. 2. ram pushes the cheese through the 'grill' of cutting blades, and a guillotine guillotine Instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation. A minimal wooden structure, it supported a heavy blade that, when released, slid down in vertical guides to sever the victim's head. at the reverse side cuts the cheese to the required length. Commander SK is a high specification, general purpose AC drive, packed with features in a compact size that takes up little room in a cubicle. Featuring integral dynamic braking Dynamic braking A technique for braking in which mechanical energy is converted to heat or electrical energy in order to slow or stop motion. An all-mechanical dynamic brake consists of rotating vanes that circulate a viscous fluid in a manner that generates as standard, the drive has the ability to absorb the energy created by fast stops, as in this case, whilst giving very smooth, precise control of off-the-shelf motors. The drives on this cheese cutting machine are hard-wired into the PLC controller to give a fast digital link and are simply programmed to give smooth acceleration and instant stop, when they individually receive instructions to do so. Contact Control Techniques UK Drive Centre on tel: 01952 213 700 |
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