WillControl mixing plant control system
Developed in-house by Tecwill, the WillControl system is a modern, user-friendly and fully automatic Windows-based control system. The system leverages today’s latest bus technology and data transfer methods, enabling reliable and fast operation.
The new control system ensures existing plants more reliable production and better quality.
The WillControl system supports the control of concrete production from proportioning/dosing to quality control. The system can be composed of suitable control modules according to customer application needs. The software application can be designed, for example, for the production of ready-mix concrete, precast concrete or both. The system can also be used to update or upgrade the control systems of existing plants, providing report capabilities on the basis of actual standards, such as EN 206-1.
The WillControl system is flexible. It can be linked to the customer’s information system, including invoicing, material management or concrete disposition programs. The system offers versatile reporting features according to the actual needs of concrete producers.
The WillControl control system has been developed according to the requirements of the EN 206-1 standard.
Benefits and features
- Achieve aggregate dosing precision of down to 2 kg (4 lb.)
- Possibility to save up to 10% cement per m3
- Short weighing time increases plant production capacity
- Handles material proportioning/dosing according to the specific mix design
- Controls fully automatic concrete production
- Supervises concrete, aggregate and product quality control
- Collects relevant information for invoicing
- Works with graphics and allows easy use of interfaces
- Is based on Windows XP
- Provides comprehensive operations management and reporting tools and connects to common accounting software
- Builds a network of geographically distant production locations
- Same system for all functions
- Reduced personnel
- High quality at minimum cost
- Economical use of cement
- Increase in productivity
- Measures aggregate moisture
- Versatilely adjusts concrete consistency
- Produces warm concrete and heats aggregates
- Automatically doses chilled water and flaked ice
WILLCONTROL SERVES THE ENTIRE CONCRETE COMPANY
Operator
- Handles material proportioning/dosing according to the specific mix design
- Controls fully automatic concrete production
- Supervises concrete, aggregate and product quality control
- Works with graphics and allows easy use of interfaces
- Same system for all functions
Company
- Same system for all functions
- Reduced personnel
- High quality at minimum cost
- Economical use of cement
- Increase in productivity
Customer
- Provides comprehensive operations management and reporting tools and connects to common accounting software
- Builds a network of geographically distant production locations
- Versatilely adjusts concrete consistency
- Produces warm concrete and heats aggregates
The WillControl software consists of the following modules
- Processes orders, customer data, mix designs, raw materials and control information
- Provides delivery notes and comprehensive reporting
- Provides data required for invoicing
- Monitors and optimizes the plant capacity
- Measures aggregate moisture
- Adjusts concrete consistency (ready-mix, precast or earth-moist concrete)
- Heats aggregates and produces warm concrete
- Doses chilled water and flaked ice
- Process flow chart and visualization
- Manual operation and alarms
- Level measurements, temperatures and moisture content
- Aggregates grain size charts and screening results
- Concrete mix design proportions
- Mix design comparison and optimum mix search
- Direct transfer of mix designs to be used for batching
- Economical cement use and constant concrete quality
- Control of aggregate quality
- Testing and monitoring of fresh / hardened concrete quality
- Improvement in producer’s quality image
- Reporting and samples
- Remote operation
- Customer service
- System upgrades
- Fault correction
- Connects to external invoicing software
- Connects different production locations to a central disposition