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Flowtics for clay & minerals processing. Every tonne, and what it really costs.

Flowtics reads the PLCs across your mills, dryers and conveyors and shows throughput, motor loads and energy per tonne live. Stops reach the right person at once, and every shift ends with its numbers on record.

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Running today on 100+ paper and packaging machines at 29 sites. Machines in this industry are set up the same way; we check yours on the free visit.

Grinding mill · Line 1 · live

The machines

Built for the machines you run.

Processing lines where one stopped conveyor stops everything after it.

  • Grinding mills

    Motor load, throughput and running hours.

  • Dryers and kilns

    Temperature bands, burner status and fuel.

  • Conveyors and elevators

    Running or stopped, and which one stopped first.

  • Crushers

    Motor current, blockages and hours.

  • Classifiers and separators

    Speed, feed and output.

  • Bagging and packing

    Bags per hour and stops.

What Flowtics reads

The numbers your work runs on.

Read straight from the PLC, shown live and kept for reports. If a reading isn’t in your PLC, we tell you on the free visit.

  • 01

    Throughput

    Tonnes per hour, per shift and per day, from the belt weigher or the PLC.

  • 02

    Energy per tonne

    kWh for each tonne by shift, where an energy meter is connected.

  • 03

    Motor loads

    Mill, crusher and fan motors, against the limit you set.

  • 04

    Dryer temperatures

    Inlet and outlet, live, against their band.

  • 05

    Stops and their order

    Which machine stopped first, and how long the line stood.

  • 06

    Running hours

    Per machine, so liners and wear parts are changed on time.

Ready-made screens that fit
  • Shift-wise
  • Energy
  • Day-wise
  • Machine on/off
See the screens

Alarms and rules

The right person hears first.

You set the limits, and who is told on which channel. These are the alarms teams in this industry usually start with.

  • Conveyor 3 stoppedWho hears: Shift in-chargeWhatsApp and SMS
  • Mill motor overloadWho hears: MaintenanceSMS
  • Dryer temperature below the set bandWho hears: OperatorApp
  • Energy per tonne above the usualWho hears: Plant headDaily email
  • Liner change due by running hoursWho hears: MaintenanceEmail

Who it’s for

Whether you build these machines or run them.

If you build them

  • Service the mills, dryers and conveyors you supply, wherever the plant is.
  • See the load and the fault before you send anyone to a remote site.
  • Offer an AMC based on real running hours.
For machine builders

If you run them

  • Tonnes and kWh per tonne by shift, so export orders are planned on real capacity.
  • Find the conveyor or mill that stops the line most often.
  • The shift report on WhatsApp before you reach the plant.
For factories

Questions

What people in this industry ask first.

All questions

Other industries

The same platform, other numbers.

Book a free visit

See what your own machines can already tell you.

Half a day at your works and an honest written answer. No cost, no obligation.

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What happens on the visit

  1. 01
    We come to your works

    Half a day. We look at two or three of your machines and their PLCs.

  2. 02
    We check what Flowtics can read

    Which readings, alarms and counters it can pick up, and what they would show you.

  3. 03
    You get a written report

    With your own numbers. Then you decide: stop there, or start a pilot.

  • No cost
  • No obligation
  • No technical preparation