Control and monitoring options for dispensers

Cope­ri­on K‑Tron has added new fea­tures to its proven K‑Vision soft­ware. The K‑Vision con­troller is a graph­i­cal oper­a­tor inter­face for con­trol­ling mul­ti­ple devices such as feed­ers or feed­er refill (vac­u­um receivers) in a process. With the release of K‑Vision Soft­ware ver­sion 2.0, the K‑Vision is now able to han­dle a total of 24 devices (e.g. KCM feed­er con­trols or MPC refill con­trols) in one or two lines.  This is a major upgrade over the pre­vi­ous ver­sion which man­aged a max­i­mum of 16 feed­er con­trollers in a sin­gle line. K‑Vision uses a 12.1‑inch col­or LCD dis­play togeth­er with a touch­screen as the pri­ma­ry oper­a­tor input mech­a­nism. It offers a quad screen dis­play mode for view­ing mul­ti­ple pages on one feed­er or a sin­gle page on mul­ti­ple feed­ers. Sup­port for over a dozen lan­guages – includ­ing Chi­nese and Japan­ese – is includ­ed, and addi­tion­al lan­guages can be added on request.

Maximizing product quality while minimizing the need for direct supervision

Designed for sim­ple oper­a­tion and fast and easy start-up, K‑Vision offers graph­ic visu­al­iza­tion of process infor­ma­tion, uti­liz­ing flex­i­ble, easy to use trend graphs. This feed­er inter­face offers event log­ging and sup­ports all of the dif­fer­ent feed­ing con­trol types for both con­tin­u­ous and batch oper­a­tion. Easy to main­tain, K‑Vision soft­ware updates are pos­si­ble by updat­ing files on a com­pact flash card or by using a USB flash drive.
K‑Vision offers a vari­ety of remote access options. A sec­ond K‑Vision can be con­nect­ed via Eth­er­net as a remote inter­face for visu­al­iza­tion and con­trol of feed­er and line para­me­ters. K‑Vision also comes with a VNC serv­er, allow­ing any VNC client – on a PC, tablet or smart­phone – con­nect­ed to the same net­work to be used as a sec­ondary user inter­face. In addi­tion to the cur­rent con­nec­tiv­i­ty options, includ­ing VNC, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, Mod­bus TCP as well as oth­ers, K‑Vision now also has email capa­bil­i­ty. No option­al hard­ware or soft­ware is nec­es­sary – it is a stan­dard fea­ture. The K‑Vision HMI can eas­i­ly be set up to email a noti­fi­ca­tion to one or more per­sons when key events occur, such as: the com­pound­ing line stopped, the com­pound­ing line start­ed, a feed­er is run­ning out of prod­uct, a pneu­mat­ic receiv­er is not receiv­ing pel­lets, noti­fi­ca­tion of a spe­cif­ic alarm, etc. K‑Vision can also be pro­grammed to send log files by e‑mail, such as feed­er event logs, para­me­ter changes, alarm logs, etc.