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Custom Design Services
Procesing Flow Design
Satake project engineers, process engineers and project drafters are fully aware of the many, varied methods for erecting mills, cleaning plants, storage silos, packaging facilities, installing material handling systems and complying with current legislation with regard to health and safety. When requested, Satake can offer your architects and engineers advice based upon our extensive experience. Because each customer has their own particular requirements, each plant is designed based upon individual design specifications. Satake can produce the right solutions, at the right time for the right price.
Design and Contract Complete Process Facilities
In the building of completely new plant, there is much to be considered. Satake USA is able to undertake the whole complex work of Designing, Manufacturing, Procuring, Erecting, and Commissioning complex instalations. Our tehnicians and engineers provide expert service at every stage from the conception to the creation of the new plant. Their expertise covers the whole field of materials handling, grain processing systems, storage, packing, power supplies and building services requirements.
Consulting Services
Technical Solutions
Our team of engineers will translate customer requirements into a technical solution, defining the process and plant layout. Full consideration is given to power consumption, staffing levels, maintenance and capital costs to provide the most suitable economic package.
Analysation of Processing Systems
Satake team of professional engineers are available to review and analyze existing or planned operations and offer proposals for engineered solutions for the improvement of plant performance.
Running Reconstruction
The economics of mill operation often make it necessary to maintain output even when the mill is undergoing a reconstruction and modernisation programme. Good advance planning is co-ordinated by Satake to maintain continuous milling activity during the changeover period leading to optimum output.
Remodeled Mills
Progressive milling companies seeking to improve productivity must examine the merits of a remodelled mill compared with the building of a band new plant. Often the remodelling within an existing building is the most cost effective solution. Irrespective of the location or the immensity of the task, our staff will resolve your remodelling problems for you, with step by step approval of each phase if necessary. A remodelled mill prepared by Satake is effectively a brand new mill and our track record speaks for itself.
Field Services
On Site Repair
Satake USA Incorporated employs a team of professional service engineers, who to respond quickly and effectively to problems at plants both in the US and abroad.
· Emergency Breakdown Repair
· Installations
· Repairs
· Upgrades
· Conversions
Maintenance
Satake USA' s professional service and process engineers can assist in the development of planned preventative maintenance programs to insure greater plant performance and efficiency. In addition, Satake offers service contracts, through which our certified technicians perform scheduled maintenance on our electronic sorting machines. Participating customers experience less downtime, resulting in improved efficiency and production.
Operator Training
Satake USA offers training packages designed to meet customer's specific requirements. Training of plant personnel, both process and administrative, is an effective way of improving performance and employee motivation. Discussions with the customer take place to determine the scope of the training and ways to monitor its effectiveness. Training manuals are custom prepared, covering all facets of milling operations. Both on and off site training is available.
Process Control
Electrical Engineering
From the transformer to the transducer our electrical installation staff are fully conversant with industrial and national standards. LV Switchboards and motor control center’s are the focal point of most installations. From small control panels through to MCC's housed in their own air conditioned control rooms our electrical engineers can supply all design and installation requirements. The design service also includes the provision of training programs and comprehensive Operation & Maintenance manuals. Analog and Digital instrumentation are installed to measure and control many process variables, for instance; flow, level, pressure, and temperature.
Plant Automation
The move towards improvements in plant operation and efficiency has evolved around developing automatic control systems and automating mechanical and process plant.
PLC and SCADA Process Control Systems
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) have evolved considerably, since first being introduced into the UK by Modicon in 1970. PLC control is now an accepted part of every process plant control system.
Supervisory, Control, Automation, and Data Acquisition (SCADA) have similarly evolved and found favour, with their increased power and capability matching the development of the PC's, on which they run, during the last decade.
Programming is though in many extents the final output stage of PLC/SCADA design, our engineers are fully aware of the plant equipment and operational process requirements.
PLC
Microprocessors, industrial electronics, and software are the building blocks of PLC's. The increase in processing power, the reduction in size and the sophistication, of the three elements respectively, have produced micro PLC's with the power to handle analogue signals, carry out PID control and enable Fuzzy Logic control strategies to be developed.
There are a multitude of manufacturers in the market place, the strong competition continuously driving forward the technology. Including; Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Cegelec. Each have their own benefits and restrictions, and quite often their own programming language, fortunately the adoption of IEC 1131 provides a common framework to enable a wider understanding of the different manufacturers techniques to occur.
SCADA
Management information is the feedstock of process plant operational decisions. Automation has provided process plant managers the opportunity to change production cycles and set performance parameters in time scales that would not have been possible under manual systems. In order to partition the information and plant management from the production floor control systems the supervisory control automation and data acquisition packages have come to the fore.
The majority of today's packages are in monitoring and management environments, however the power and capability of the PC has grown to such an extent, that, it will be difficult for the control systems engineers to resist using this incredible processing and mathematical power in their schemes.
Man Machine Interfaces
Traditional control systems use pushbuttons, selector switches, indicator lights and chart recorders to provide information on the plant status and to allow operators to set the plant to work. On the other hand SCADA packages use computers and VDU's to achieve the same ends. Now a third alternative is available and is quickly gaining acceptance and wide use, this is the MMI or HMI (Human Machine Interface). Available across a very wide range from simple alpha-numeric keypads with scrolling text display, through to full graphical display capability with touch screen operation.
The MMI provides a very cost effective solution and through simple menu based programming provides a level of information and control that would not be possible with conventional systems.
Central Mill Pneumatic Systems
An effective and efficient Pneumatic System is essential to running a successful modern mill.
Satake can provide complete design and installation services for Pneumatic Systems.
The use of the latest CAD design software allows our engineers to calculate and plan the most economic and optimised spouting routes
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