Extruders are widely used in the industrial production of plastics, food and cosmetics. In addition to the simple single-screw extruders, the twin or multi-screw extruders require a complex gear unit to drive the extruder screws rotating in opposite or the same direction.
Increasingly sophisticated extruder shapes require gear technologies that transmit the highest torques evenly to all screw shafts in the smallest of spaces. The actual torques at the screws and the exact distribution of these to the individual extruder shafts can be precisely measured using MANNER’s sensor telemetry.
Critical questions regarding your extrusion operation:
- Which torques must the screws actually cope with?
- Is the load distribution evenly distributed over all screw shafts?
- Can the extruder control system be better adapted to the torques and forces occurring?
- How does the extruder and its individual screw shafts behave in different production conditions?
We apply your coupling sleeves to the drive shafts with the tried and tested sensor telemetry for extruder shafts and the proven MANNER sensor technology records the real torques where they occur. These are transmitted contact-free via an induction antenna to a corresponding evaluation unit, your computer or your control system. In addition, specially developed software records the measured values, for example for long-term monitoring.
