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By K-Tron Process Group
Using your loss-in-weight feeder's trending capabilities to track down external causes of feeding performance problems.
As any veteran troubleshooter knows, often the biggest challenge in diagnosing a process performance problem is backtracking from symptom to cause. Sometimes the path leading from problem to cause is short and easily followed, such as when a motor fails and needs to be replaced. But when the trail is lengthy, indirect or unclear, the possibilities of cause and effect quickly multiply, often branching into a seemingly endless array of frustrating dead-ends.
When faced with an apparent loss-inweight feeding problem the feeder itself rightly becomes the initial focus of troubleshooting scrutiny. But what if the feeder checks out yet the problem persists? If the feeder has passed muster, the problem's underlying cause must then lie elsewhere, whether with the operating environment, upstream/downstream conditions or equipment, or with the process material itself.
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