CONTROLnet

LUXORnet can control up to 16 drying bins and incorporates a wide choice of modular conveying control packages. The integrated convey control includes all hopper loaders on the bins plus up to 24 material loaders on the machines and two blower stations plus one standby station. Other standard features include: line purging with material preselection, dry air conveying, and emergency coupling between two conveying lines.
Ease and efficiency of operation is combined with highly economical plant utilisation.

Features:

• Controls one dryer, up to 16 drying bins, and a maximum of 40 material loaders
• Microcontroller with CoDeSys technology and CAN-Bus technology or PLC with Siemens S7 technology
• Intuitive operation with local colour graphic touch screen or with remote WEBpanel
• DryingOrganizer material throughput monitoring and protection system
• ETA plus® - airflow control for need-based dry air quantity
• ATTN - drying to a defined dew-point
• Recipe management
• Fully programmable weekly timer
• Trend graphics and reports for documentation of the process
• Maintenance and diagnostic tools, such as operating hours counter, service interval counter, and messages
• Optional: dew-point controlled regeneration; closed loop controlled aftercooler
• Totally integrated in the CONTROLnet system via Ethernet port

METROnet AE and METROnet AN are totally integrated in the CONTROLnet platform and can be linked to other controls via Ethernet connection.

METROnet AE/AN features:

• Conveying control supporting all aspects of material logistics:
  • up to 99 material loaders with 1 or 2 inlets
  • integration of proportioning valves and suction boxes with line purging and dry-air conveying
  • material selection from manual coupling stations to fully automatic METROLINK units
  • sharing of coupling stations between multiple conveying lines
  • up to 8 numbers of conveying lines (blower stations)
  • standby blowers with fully automatic switchover valves
  • supervision and control of silos and material storage bins

• Microcontroller with CoDeSys and CAN-Bus technology or Siemens S7 technology
• Operation by WEBpanel

The VOLUnet MC control system boasts innovative, Ethernet-based open network architecture. The full colour touch screen gives you simple, intuitive, fast, and reliable operation. It has comprehensive features for process and recipe management, offering you reporting functionality for quality assurance and it delivers advanced service functions and graphical display of process data.

Features:

• Suitable for one or two dosing modules
• Additive calibration wizard
• Up to 50 recipes can be stored
• Reporting function via Ethernet
• Standard network interface (Ethernet)
• The control can be integrated in the motan CONTROLnet network
• Regrind compensation function

VOLUnet SC can control, manage, and monitor a SPECTROCOLOR V unit with up to six material components. The optional integrated convey control in VOLUnet SC manages up to seven material loaders and one blower with filter for the conveying system. It can be used to feed your processing machine and other equipment as well as the SPECTROCOLOR V.

Features:

• Easy to understand instructions on the full colour touch screen
• Ethernet compatible, therefore easy to integrate into motan’s CONTROLnet
• Up to 50 recipes possible
• Documentation (recipe report, shift report)
• Convey control as option for 7 hopper loaders and 2 blowers or alternatively 1 blower and 1 stand by blower; further options possible through interprocess communication.

The GRAVInet MC control system boasts innovative, Ethernet-based open network architecture. The full colour touch screen gives you simple, intuitive, fast, and reliable operation. It has comprehensive features for process and recipe management, offering you reporting functionality for quality assurance and it delivers advanced service functions and graphical display of process data.

Features:

• Potential-free alarm output and external signal input (external contact) for the dosing cycle
• Storage of up to 50 recipes possible
• Detailed report function via Ethernet
• Automatic adjustment of the masterbatch dosing depending on the regrind percentage
• Unit with two dosing modules enables fast colour changes

GRAVInet GC can control, manage, and monitor a GRAVICOLOR unit with up to six material components. The optional integrated convey control in GRAVInet manages up to seven material loaders and one blower with filter for the conveying system. It can be used to feed the processing machine and other equipment as well as the GRAVICOLOR.

So, for smaller applications, GRAVInet GC eliminates the need for a separate conveying control. By linking up various GRAVInet controls via Ethernet, complex system equipment can be monitored and controlled. For example, blower stations can be used simultaneously when conveying.
Interprocess communication at work, optimising performance and reducing systems costs.

Features:

• Intuitive operation by local colour graphic touch screen or WEBpanel
• Embedded microcontroller for operation and control with on-board network port
• Full process control through IntelliBlend software - absolute recipe integrity by self-optimisation and automatic material calibration
• Vibration control for fast cycling injection moulding machines
• Recipe management
• Extended reporting capability at local level and to higher level plant data management systems

The GRAVInet SC control system boasts innovative, Ethernet-based open network architecture. In addition, it offers excellent control characteristics when handling set point jumps and ramp mode thanks to optimised control settings and filter functions. The high-tech touch screen colour display with LCD-TFT resolution enables simple, intuitive, fast and reliable operation.

SPECTROCOLOR G can be deployed as a stand-alone station for a mono extrusion system or as part of a co-extrusion system with integration via the Ethernet based CONTROLnet. And of course, the unit meshes perfectly with our other materials management components all of which can be displayed and operated via a single interface.

GRAVInet SC has comprehensive features for process and recipe management, offers reporting functionality for quality assurance and delivers advanced service functions and graphical display of process data.

Features:

• Connection of an extruder/throughput control in slave mode, using an analogue set point signal with an optional digital enable function
• Connection to a higher (SCADA-based) automation platform (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) via Ethernet or an OPC server
• A process-data diagram (set/actual throughput, position command of the dosing motor maximum, dosing rate and actual hopper weight) for each dosing module and for the entire dosing station enables process monitoring (stability checks, early warning diagnostics for process interruptions, improved process reliability) at configurable time intervals ranging from five minutes to eight hours.
• Installation wizard for intuitive configuration of SPECTROCOLOR G

The GRAVInet GP control is able to control up to 8 dosing modules with every GRAVIPLUS synchronous dosing and mixing station and the appropriate refilling slides/butterfly valves or material loaders. The control offers user-friendly operation via a 12" colour graphic display with TFT touch screen.

The GRAVInet GP incorporates comprehensive functions for operation and process control, recipe management, reporting for quality assurance as well as enhanced service functions and trend charts. The dosing and mixing stations being controlled can operate either independently or in tandem on a line. A control system to serve multiple lines is available.

The menu-driven control is designed for easy operation. Messages and alarms are displayed in plain text and multiple language options are available. Through the dynamic graphic process visualisation, the most crucial process data can be monitored and changed.

GRAVInet GP technology stands out due to its modern, Ethernet-based open network architecture enabling standard networking with all other motan CONTROLnet controls.

Features:

• Menu-driven control
• Messages in plain text
• Multiple level password protection
• Recipe storage
• Individual or line operation of the dosing and mixing stations
• Event and time protocols
• Multiple line control operation possible
• Graphic display of process parameters and equipment configuration possible
• Line stop function
• Master dosing module function
• Automatic calibration
• Print function
• Remote maintenance and/or software updates via VNC
• Modbus/TCP-interface

The GRAVInet GP light has the same display and functionality of the GRAVInet GP but can only control up to a maximum of two dosing modules. It offers all the benefits of its big brother but at a lower price.

Features:

• Menu-driven control
• Messages in plain text
• Multiple level password protection
• Recipe storage
• Individual or line operation of the dosing and mixing stations
• Event and time protocols
• Multiple line control operation possible
• Graphic display of process parameters and equipment configuration possible
• Line stop function
• Master dosing module function
• Automatic calibration
• Print function
• Remote maintenance and/or software updates via VNC
• Modbus/TCP interface

Through a WEBpanel, any installed CONTROLnet control can be operated. The panels can be built into a motan unit or they can be freely located anywhere in the production facility.

Features:

• Network-based independent operating panel
• Intuitive, touch-sensitive colour graphic display
• Online help
• Standardised navigation structure

LINKnet 3.0, the SIMATIC Win CC based graphic user interface for easy management of your motan-colortronic system.
LINKnet 3.0 simplifies the control of the following tasks:

• Operating
• Supervising
• Reporting
• Archiving

Features:

• Can operate any number of motan and colortronic system units
• User friendly interface
• Overview of all important parameters
• Different user levels
• Overview of all actual and archived alarms
• Graphic view of system – to aid recognition; it is possible to graphically represent each part of the system. Data can be exported for use in other applications
• System can be easily reconfigured to accommodate changes in production
• High level of system security through credibility testing of data and warning functions