Automatisierungstechnik Intralogistik/Lagertechnik Rohrbahnfördertechnik Behälter-/Kartonfördertechnik Zerlegetechnik Sonderlösungen Maschinenbau Helmers GmbH Dörfel Lebensmitteltechnik GmbH&Co.KG Fürstenauer Weg 70 49090 Osnabrück Tel: 0541-139020 info@maschinenbau-helmers.de www.maschinenbau-helmers.de any problem and the inside of the computer is completely shielded from external influences. Neither water nor other liquids can penetrate the computer, guaranteeing more than just constant system availability; it also ensures that dangerous bacteria cannot get inside the housing. Another benefit of the sealed construction: since there is no air exchange, condensation cannot form inside the housing. This could cause short circuits, a point that counts especially during sausage production, because the humidity rises above 90 %. Freezing temperatures The developers at noax have designed the Industrial PCs without ventilation slits or complicated exterior fans. They have only an interior fan, which directs the processor’s heat out of the housing. A micro controller handles the climate manage-ment. It ensures that the optional heating switches on and especially off as soon as the appropriate values have been reached. At Bell, the noax IPCs are used in temperature ranges between -20 and plus 40 degrees. Therefore, it was especially important that the computers could do their work accurately at the lowest temperatures. For use in extreme cold temperatures, an electronically-controlled heating system is optionally built into the noax devices. This way, they can be brought up to operating tempera-ture within five minutes. Another plus is the analog resistive touchscreen. It reacts precisely to touches and is also easy to operate while wearing protective gloves. Small buttons can be activated just as easily as big ones. On customer request, noax will also equip the Industrial PC with a special protective film that protects the touch panel against alkali and acidic substances. Partial goal achieved By the middle of 2011, Bell had acquired more than 400 noax IPCs. The only machines used are models from the Panel and Steel Series with 15” monitors. These devices control a multitude of different processes: order picking, the processing of trucks, documentation of the flow of goods for the traceability of products, and the printing of packaging labels. Since the acquisition of the first Industrial PCs from Ebersberg (Germany), there have been zero noteworthy failures or faults – a big plus for a large company like Bell, for which system stability is essential. www.bell.ch, www.noax.com BELL AG As a subsidiary of the Swiss retailer Coop, Bell AG is by far the largest meat pro-cessor in Switzerland. With the product groups meat, delicacy, poultry, seafood, and convenience, it employs about 3.500 people in six locations in Switzerland. Bell’s customers include familiar names such as Coop, Manor, Prodega, and BP in whole-sale and retail trade, McDonald’s, SV Group, and Mövenpick in gastronomy, and Nestlé, Hilcona and Unilever in the food industry. Weder Wasser noch andere Flüssigkeiten können in die PCs eindringen. / Neither water nor other liquids are able to percolate the PCs. REPORTAGE 2016 43 Foto: noax Technologies REPORT
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