Plant control system

BLS 4 plant control system

More efficiency. More safety. Optimised use of resources.

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

With an optimised 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 subject to continued life cycle management – software and hardware are kept updated at all times, whilst 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 generating asphalt recipes with variable RAP content – sustainability made possible.

Highlights at a glance
  • Latest hardware and software
  • More powerful system
  • Curved monitor – two monitors merged into one screen, (ergonomic workstation, wide-screen 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 analysis and processes optimisation
  • IT security
  • System monitoring
  • Ready for Big Data
  • 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 to 30 years, while its electronic components last for approx. 4 to 8 years. This gap has now been closed with the new BENNINGHOVEN lifecycle management.

Keeping software and hardware successively updated:

  • updates and hardware adaptations are conducted in regular, short cycles.
  • The older the control system or components, the greater the risk of failures or incompatibilities affecting parts that cannot be replaced like-for-like.
  • Typically replaced components: hard drives, printers, batteries, monitors

Optimized user experience with a focus functionality

  • New curved monitor – only one single screen instead of two
  • Easier to use
  • Preset trend configuration
    • Process support / plant optimisation
    • Plain text display
      • Example: “Recycling” trend package
      • Example: “Virgin mineral drying” trend package
  • Smart Weighing System – smart, time-optimised dosing system for batch-by-batch weighing of the virgin mineral and warm-mix recycling
  • Recipe Generator 4.0

IT security

  • Improved IT security, state of the art
  • Complies with the current legal requirements
  • Future-proof lifecycle
  • Improved security with auxiliary modules
  • Protection against cyberattacks – no unauthorised
    access to the plant control system possible
  • Improved password security
  • Update security
    • Download of security updates
    • Functional updates
    • Operating system updates

BENNINGHOVEN Recipe Generator 4.0

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

  • Simpler and clearly structured operation
  • Use of the recipe generator regardless of whether the virgin mineral is run through the screen or (NEW) with bypass – recipes are always accurate.
  • Automatic mixing of different recycling types possible – generates the resulting recycling analysis continuously from different recycling types
  • Keeps manual analysis preparation to a minimum
  • Simply enter the RAP analysis (screen curve analysis) directly into the system and the recipe generator automatically executes all other steps.
  • Automatic change of the bitumen type, including tank selection, resulting from the base recipe
  • The user can define exceptions – additives that should not be included in the dynamic adjustment process

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Benninghoven value

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 support the reduction of energy consumption and emissions while enabling asphalt mixing plants to run with a high reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) content to ensure the future of the facility.

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