Bin activators for the food industry in South Africa

The customer’s order included 24 ISERCO bin activators. These were manufactured in our workshops in France and then delivered by boat to South Africa. They were then installed in the customer’s new factory.

The equipment

• 10 bin activators for the extraction of wet wheat.
• 8 for bran extraction
• 6 for flour extraction

Commissioning on site

The first reason for the visit of our ISERCO team to Durban was to ensure the proper commissioning of the equipment in the factory.  Therefore, several actions were carried out on site. The main one was the verification of the good assembly of the bin activators under the silos. For this, various controls were necessary.

• checking the distance between the silo flanges and the bin activator flanges
• adjustment of suspensions
• control of the power of the unbalance motors and adjustment of the time delay.

As for the wet wheat part, the commissioning had been carried out a few months before ISERCO’s visit. No problem was to be deplored and the extraction of the product was done without problem. However, the distances between the flanges of the silos and the flanges of the bin activators were checked and the suspensions were adjusted.

Finally, at the time of our intervention, the flour silos had never been put into operation. During the assembly and adjustment of the bin activators, our team was able to train the operators on site. This training was necessary to know how to make the right adjustments to the suspensions and the unbalance motors. Work on the automatism was also carried out. This allowed the implementation of optimal motor timings according to the customer’s extraction needs.

The successful commissioning by our ISERCO team at our South African customer’s site is a great success. This is the result of a collaborative work between ISERCO and the customer throughout the project.