Control & automation
Your machine park requires to be producing in a continuous, uninterrupted and easy to control and maintain way. When extrusion lines are aging, the utilised control and drive system(s) are becoming more difficult to maintain, operate and ensure that the maximum production target are met.
Besides retrofitting your sheet extrusion line with MEAF’s hardware, the integration of a brand-new ExtruSol control system as well as frequency drives upgrade are part of the retrofit and upgrade solutions that MEAF can provide. By using our retrofit & upgrade solutions for your existing line, it can be operated and controlled by operators and maintenance personnel in an easy and efficient way. The easiness of operation, user-friendly features and many diagnostic tools, help your personnel to run your sheet extrusion lines as efficient as possible.
MEAF’S in-house developed control system ExtruSol is operated by means of a touch screen and has various levels of accessibility to the various extrusion line parameters. The combination of the control system with the SpeedAdjust handwheels gives the operator the possibility to quickly, simultaneously and accurately change of the speeds of the motors of the main extruder screw, gear pump, cooling rollers of the rollstack and the co-extruder screw.