Adapt to Environment to Reduce Waste in Filling

In weighing systems, all you really want to see is the weight on the scale. But the weight signal is usually corrupted by noise from mechanical and electronic sources. Let TraxDSP™ take care of this for you.

Filling, batching and formulating
are dynamic processes that are often conducted in presence of:

• Mechanical noise (vibration) which is passed through the load cells (e.g., mixers, vibratory feeders, compressors, rotating machinery)
• Electrical noise coupled through the system cables (e.g., line spikes from motors turning on/off, relay/motor starter noise)
• Internal noise generated by product moving inside a vessel
  

These fluctuations can reduce the weighing accuracy of your process and therefore the efficiency of your process. Traditionally avoiding such fluctuations calls for expensive construction adjustments, or for a significant reduction of the process speed and thus of the productivity.

So why not let TraxDSP™ take care of this for you?
METTLER TOLEDO embeds a dedicated software solution in all its process terminals (IND131/331, IND560, IND560x, and IND780). TraxDSP™ is an advanced digital signal conditioning and filtering solution that will revolutionize your way of dealing with process and environmental interference. There is no need to choose between productivity and accuracy. You can have both at no additional cost.

TraxDSP™
The system combines hardware and software technology:

• A fast speed (300 Hz) and ultra-quiet A/D signal converter.
• Tunable multi-stage digital filters and digital signal processing to remove unwanted noise.

TraxDSP™ is a combination of multi-stage filters which filter out background noise and vibration. The system constantly and rapidly tracks and produces filtered weight data that represents the true weight portion of the load cell signal.

Traditional vibration filtering common in weighing terminals is no more than a calculation of an average with a few fixed settings. Such filters are slow to respond to changes in weight simply because they take the average of a fixed number of weight samples to derive the stable weight.

TraxDSP™ is different because it can be specifically adjusted to different weighing conditions to optimize the speed, stability and accuracy of the weight data with updates at 20 - 50 Hz required for fast process control decisions.