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Batch and Minor Quantity Automation from AZO®

Batch and Minor Quantity Automation from AZO®
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Batch and Minor Quantity Automation from AZO®

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Introduction
AZO is a leading provider of mixer feeding systems, specializing in precise batch and minor quantity automation across industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and plastics. The company has implemented over 7,500 vacuum weighing systems and 650 installed systems worldwide.
Key Features
  • Energy-efficient and sustainable solutions.
  • Flexibility in handling weights from 10 grams to several hundred kilograms.
  • High precision for both small and large weights.
  • Reduced non-productive times and fast processing.
  • Contamination-free solutions for product and operator safety.
  • User-friendly control with reliable batch traceability.
Manual Weighing Solutions - ManDos
ManDos is a computer-controlled manual weighing station designed for small and minor quantities requiring high accuracy. It supports raw material identification, optimal scale selection, and documentation for traceability. The modular system allows for easy expansion and IT integration.
Automatic Weighing Solutions - AZO COMPONENTER®
  • Indexing Mode: Suitable for high batch frequency and accuracy with coded vessels on an indexing belt.
  • Circular Design: Cost-effective for limited components, allowing parallel weighing processes.
  • Linear Design: Ideal for numerous components, offering high batch frequency and precise weighing.
Micro-Dosing Systems - AZODOS®
AZODOS® systems provide precise dosing in vessels with interchangeable components, ensuring accurate provision and preventing incorrect batches.
Advanced Solutions - AZO ShuttleDos®
AZO ShuttleDos® offers rapid batch automation, enhancing efficiency and reducing contamination risks.
Conclusion
AZO's solutions for batch and minor quantity automation ensure high precision, flexibility, and reliability, establishing it as an industry leader.
Overview
The document outlines AZO's automated systems for raw material handling in industrial settings, including AGVs, dosing systems, and docking solutions to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and cleanliness.
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
AGVs are used for precise transportation and weighing of raw materials, equipped with laser navigation and transponder interfaces for accurate positioning and secure data transfer. The system minimizes waiting times and optimizes AGV numbers through simulation during planning.
AZO COMPONENTER®
A fully automatic container system integrating AGVs with scales for precise raw material handling, offering clean storage, stock control, and traceability.
DosiBox® and DosiLogistic®
These systems provide economic solutions for handling small ingredient quantities with frequent changes, ensuring hygiene and traceability. DosiBox® is designed for easy cleaning and precise dosing, and can be integrated into a DosiLogistic® system for efficient storage and transport.
AZO DOSITAINER®
This system features interchangeable components for handling various recipes, with a precise dosing screw and locking system for correct material placement and discharge, suitable for materials with poor flow characteristics.
AZO ShuttleDos®
Designed for fast batch automation, ShuttleDos® handles up to 20 batches per hour with high precision, using mobile shuttles to transport materials between dosing stations, enhancing cycle rates and allowing unmanned operation.
AZO CleanDock®
This docking system provides dust-tight connections and scale isolation to prevent contamination during dosing and weighing, designed for easy maintenance and universal use.
Additional Solutions
AZO offers a range of solutions for mixer feeding and process automation, including vacuum weighing systems and liquids handling, emphasizing economical concepts, high process reliability, and comprehensive customer service.
Conclusion
AZO provides a comprehensive suite of automated solutions for efficient and precise raw material handling in industrial settings, focusing on cleanliness, accuracy, and process optimization.
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Batch and Minor Quantity ® Automation from AZO Mixer Feeding from the Market Leader 8700 SYSTEMS Automatic, highly accurate dosing, weighing, collecting and preparing of batches for mixer feeding

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Right to the point! Highly precise batch and minor quantity automation from the market leader During the manufacture of food, pharmaceuticals, chemical and plastic products, precise adherence to the recipes is decisive for the product quality. As the producer, you must have absolute confidence in the exact supply of your raw materials. Each ingredient must be meticulously documented. With around 7,500 vacuum weighing systems already delivered, AZO has been Number One in mixer feeding of main components for quite some time. Over 650 installed systems, from ManDos through AZO COM-PONENTER® in various...

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All solutions at a glance Computer-controlled manual weighing station - ManDos_ ManDos stand-alone manual weighing station 4 ManDos with automatic small component storage (AKL) 5 Automatic weighing of small quantities to the gram - AZO COMPONENTER®_ AZO COMPONENTER® indexing mode 6 AZO®AutoDos: Online dosing and weighing of small quantities 7 AZO COMPONENTER® circular arrangement 8 AZO COMPONENTER® linear arrangement with mobile scale 9 AZO COMPONENTER® linear with mobile container 10 AZO COMPONENTER® with automated guided vehicles (AGV) 11 Frequently changing minor components - DosiBox®, DosiLogistic®,...

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Manual weighing station for colours, additives and aggregates at a compound manufacturer Operator-guided weighing of colours and additives ManDos – Computer-controlled weighing from manual to semiautomatic: Ideal for handling your small and minor quantities Small quantity handling with ManDos Small and minor quantities have a major influence on the recipes. Yet full automation is often impractical; the required weighing accuracy for sensitive recipe components such as additives, aromas, pigments, spices and colourings cannot be economically achieved. In this case, the manual weighing station...

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Your AZO advantages • Exact weighing of additives, flavours, spices, pigments, colourings etc. • Modular design for easy expansion • Computer-supported, more reliable weighing process • Explicit identification and traceability of batches Weighing small quantities in the chemical industry This is where ManDos makes sense • Low usage frequency • Raw materials not suited to automation • Frequent component change • High component variety • Limited investment means • Where consistent documentation is required • When complete solutions with integrated conversion, supply and handling are demanded Multifunctional...

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Your AZO advantages • Extremely high accuracy • Very high batch frequency with over 100 batches per hour • No contamination, no crosscontamination • High production reliability through explicit identification • Optionally expandable The AZO COMPONENTER® indexing mode makes sense wherever plenty of components with very high batch frequency and accuracy need to be weighed. It has proven particularly well where difficult products such as colourings, additives and highly active ingredients are automated. Instead of a linear arrangement with mobile collection vessel, in this system coded vessels standing...

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Your AZO advantages • Modular design, expandable at any time • Provision accurate to the gram • Closed system • Transparent inventory • Prevention of incorrect batches • Optional with interchangeable components and single scale • Extreme performance capability thanks to parallel weighing Online weighing in pneumatic conveying systems AZO®AutoDos Dosing and weighing of small and minor quantities Online dosing in conveying line This version is ideal when small amounts need to be weighed to the gram online and fully automated at various consumers (mixers). The small amounts are stored in buffer...

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Your AZO advantages • High batch frequency through parallel weighing (up to 40 batches per hour) • Good assignability to specific recipes, e.g. dark and light product lines • Feeding of several mixing lines possible AZO COMPONENTER®, circular design in climate-controlled area The AZO COMPONENTER® in circular design: Cost-effective solution with limited number of components The AZO COMPONENTER® in circular design is recommended They can be fed by vacuum or pressure conveying. Each component small components with poor flowing characteristics. The vibration dosing when a small number of components...

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Your AZO advantages • Batch frequency: 10 batches per hour • Several supply points, e.g. mixer or pneumatic conveying, are easily realised. • Micro components are pre-weighed with the highest accuracy in a special scale AZO COMPONENTER®, with linear mobile scale The AZO COMPONENTER® in linear design: Ideal for many components Where many components are automatically processed, the linear design of AZO COMPONENTER® is recommended. Here, each of the surge bins, e.g. discharge bases for sacks and Big-Bags, pneumatically fed receivers or containers, is equipped with its own discharge and dosing unit...

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Your AZO advantages • Batch frequency: 10 batches per hour • Efficient solution for difficult products • Several supply points can be easily realised. • No contamination or blending • Spatial separation of product discharge and batch provision AZO BATCHTAINER® as collecting hopper AZO COMPONENTER®, linear design Batches automatically weighed in container This version of the AZO COMPONENTER® is particularly useful where contamination-free solutions are needed, such as in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries or for raw materials with difficult discharge characteristics. Components included...

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Your AZO advantages • Flexible system, optimally adapted to the application • Precise weighing • Optimal for free, non-linear arrangement of supply points • Very easy to clean Linear AZO COMPONENTER® combined with driverless transport system AZO COMPONENTER®, fully automatic Container system with automated guided vehicles (AGV) When the supply point, such as a mixer, is not arranged linearly, the AZO COMPONENTER® with AGV is a suitable solution. Here, the dosage points are served by a laser navigation controlled AGV which gathers the weighed raw materials precisely corresponding to the recipe....

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