Portable Plants / Recycling

Quiz

1. What is a set of devices, systems and operating rules eliminating the need for human decision and intervention within a given operating frame?

2. How much of an increase has automation provided in production in the many aspects of an aggregate plant's operation?

3. What are the four main functions of automation?

4. What are the three control modes that every cone crusher automation system should have?

5. Storing how many days of crushing data provides a comprehensive snapshot of operations?

6. What are the three key reasons to automate a crusher?

7. What technique helps to save space while controlling loads?

8. What do softstarts help limit?

9. What is the main objective of truck ticketing and billing process technologies?

10. What type of technology is used to identify and record the time vehicles enter a site, what product they are to receive and what legal weight they may be loaded to?

Quiz Answers

1. Automation

2. Two to 10 times more

3. Monitor, control, record and communicate

4. Manual, auto setting and auto power

5. 60

6. Total machine protection minimizes downtime; simplifies operation and reduces costly downtime; maximum volumetric capacity without overloading results in improved product quality, higher productivity and greater efficiency

7. Motor control center (MCC)

8. Inrush currents in jaw crushers, cone crushers, impact crushers, pumps and conveyors and on any motor 100 hp or larger

9. More efficient flow of material, trucks and information

10. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)