Dryer Monitors Its Own Performance.

A new Man-Machine Interface (MMI (Man Machine Interface) See HMI.

1. MMI - Man-Machine Interface.
2. (company) MMI - The company which developed the first Programmable Array Logic devices. MMI was bought by AMD. ) has now been added to the Sensi-Dry weigh dryer from Comet Automation Systems Inc. of Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. . The Sensi-Dry measures material throughput rates Throughput rate is an obsolete term^[1] in the terminology of automated chemical analysis. It may mean either:

Input rate
Output rate

References

1. ^ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. "throughput rate". in order to prevent under- or over-drying.

The new interface controls feed rates into the hopper, and displays material amounts delivered to the hopper, material usage, temperature profile, and load time. The MMI operates in Windows 95/98 on a standard PC.

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Publication:	Plastics Technology
Article Type:	Brief Article
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Date:	Dec 1, 1999
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