Plant control

BLS 4 plant control

Greater efficiency. Better safety. Optimized resource usage.

The advanced BLS 4 control system from Benninghoven for asphalt mixing plants, with a focus on functionality and ease of use.

With an optimized user experience – from the screen layout to tablet operation and preconfigured trends. Development also actively incorporated practical insights from mixing supervisors. The BLS 4 is also part of a lifecycle management process that ensures its software and hardware is kept up-to-date, while also being covered by a level of IT security that meets all current statutory regulations. And last but not least: Recipe Generator 4.0, for the dynamic generation of asphalt recipes with variable RAP content – for the perfect mix.

Highlights at a glance
  • Latest hardware and software
  • More powerful system
  • Curved monitor – two displays merge into one screen (ergonomic workstation with widescreen monitor)
  • Intuitive interface – actively incorporating feedback provided by mixing supervisors
  • Main screen always in the background
    – Show/hide sub-faceplates with detailed schematics of plant parts
    – Free positioning of detail screens
  • User-friendly operation – fewer clicks
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  • Software and hardware are now included in a life cycle management process
  • Pre-configured trends for process analysis and optimization
  • IT security
  • System monitoring
  • Big Data-ready
  • Recipe Generator 4.0 – a proven system, with user-friendly operation and new features
  • The new software focuses on a stable, secure, high-performance system
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Lifecycle

An asphalt mixing plant has a service life of 20–30 years, while the lifecycle for its electronic components are approx. 4–8 years – this gap has now been closed by BENNINGHOVEN lifecycle management.

Software and hardware are successively kept updated:

  • Updates and hardware adaptations are conducted in regular, short cycles
  • The older the control system/components, the greater the risk of failures or incompatibilities affecting parts that cannot be replaced on a like-for-like basis
  • Components typically replaced – hard drives, printers, batteries, monitors

Optimized user experience with a focus on functionality

  • New, curved monitor – now a single screen instead of two
  • Easier to use
  • Preset trend configuration
    • Process support/plant optimization
    • Plain text display
      • Example: Trend package for “recycling”
      • Example: Trend package for drying virgin mineral
  • Smart Weighing System – Smart, time-optimized dosing system for batch-by-batch weighing of virgin mineral and hot recycling
  • Recipe generator 4.0

IT security

  • Improved IT security, state of the art
  • Complies with latest legal requirements
  • Future-proof lifecycle
  • Improved security with auxiliary modules
  • Protection against cyberattacks – no unauthorized
    access to the plant control system allowed
  • Improved password security
  • Update security
    • Download of security updates
    • Functional updates
    • Updates for the operating system

BENNINGHOVEN Recipe Generator 4.0

Recipe Generator 4.0 is a software option for generating recipes with variable quantities of RAP material.

  • Simpler and more straightforward operation
  • Use Recipe Generator whether or not virgin mineral is run through the screen or (NEW) with bypass – recipe accuracy always assured
  • Automatic mixing of different recycling types possible – continuous generation of the resulting recycling analysis from different recycling types
  • Keeps manual analysis preparation to a minimum
  • Only the RAP analysis (screen curve analysis) has to be entered 1:1 into the system – Recipe Generator executes all other steps automatically
  • Automatic bitumen type change – including tank selection – triggered by base recipe
  • Operator can define exceptions – additional materials that should not be included in the dynamic adjustment process

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Using technology to work towards a more efficient use of energy and raw materials is the challenge of today and tomorrow. Solutions from Benninghoven can help to cut energy consumption and emissions, and enable the operation of asphalt mixing plants with high rates of RAP usage – which also ensures the long-term future of the mixing plant site.

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