NEWS & EVENTS
Road Construction:
Real-time Information System - Critical Information on the Status of your Paving Operations
eRoutes is real-time information and traceability system intended for public works.
eRoutes provides the following services:
- AcquiEx: Coordination of operations between plants and jobs
- AcquiLab: Capturing and measuring production-related data
- eWatch: Energy efficiency assessment for hot mix plant
- Tick2DB: Universal ticket capture and import into accounting software
Coordination between plants and jobs is now a more exact science.
Information access on a paving projects status is made a lot more
efficient with AcquiEx. Everyone involved in paving projects gets
the information they need automatically and directly to their desktop
computer or Internet enabled mobile phone. Data are captured from
load-out sites and sent to eRoutes web servers where data can then
be retrieved by authorized users. Any brand and type of control
system and load-out software can be connected.
Truck Fleet Optimization Tools help decide the number of trucks needed based on paver
flow rate and round trip duration.
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Anything measured can be improved
eRoutes AcquiLab application captures production-related data from
hot mix plants and stores it on eRoutes servers. Real-time alerts
and reports are available on cell phones while long term archiving
and data mining helps the diagnosis of quality related problems
and improves consistency.
- Assess coherence of production data by comparing redundant information like total feeder flow rate versus aggregate belt scale rate; or total tons produced to total tons at truck scale; etc.
- Compares plants on key indicators like percentage of production out of tolerance, number of start/stop per thousand tons, temperatures, etc.
- Provides real-time alerts on cell phones on out of tolerances data.
- Rates your plant on key indicators related to quality and compares it to other plants.
- Extract professional reports quickly. When questions are raised about your production, provide professional reports in a matter of seconds.
- Reduces the time spent by quality technicians traveling from offices to plants.
- Provides affirmation to equipment managers regarding improvement and investments needed.
- Measures how your corrective measures to quality problems provide results.
Data are immediately accessible by all people with Internet access and necessary credentials. Reports are complete and user friendly. System is small in size and very easy to install.
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Where environment meets money
Energy loss factors in hot mix heating and drying processes is defined
by the ratio of actual energy used on theoretical amount of energy
needed to accomplish the task. The task here consists of taking
a given amount of raw material (say daily tonnage of aggregates)
containing a percentage of water, from an ambient temperature to
about 300° Fahrenheit, evaporating the water in the process.
The amount of energy needed to accomplish such a task is easily
found once one has the underlying data: ambient and output temperatures,
percentage of water, and total tons produced. The amount of energy
needed can be compared to the actual amount of energy provided by
the quantity of fuel used multiplied by the energy available in
each unit (gallons, cubic feet, etc.) of that specific fuel. A "good"
loss factor is 1.15. This means that the heating process actually
took 15% more energy than it should have. A typical loss factor
ranges from 1.13 to 1.50. It is very hard to go lower than 1.13,
but bringing a loss factor from 1.3 to 1.2 is not a difficult task
to do and saves more than $35,000 per year on a 100,000 T/year plant.
Calculating and watching that loss factor is the purpose of the
eWatch application of eRoutes.
Reducing energy loss factor in hot mix heating & drying
process saves big dollars and preserves the environment.
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Universal Ticket Capture And Import Into Accounting.
The eRoutes Tick2DB application intercepts and extracts information from truck tickets and sends it to a database where it can be exported to invoicing and accounting software.
The system uses the Internet or the Enterprise Intranet to send the tickets to eRoutes server in real-time.
Export formats can be built in the application. The resulting file is saved on the user PC, ready to be imported in any ERP or invoicing software.
