Connectwell fully enclosed CIMRE relay module design

Cement is the most ubiquitous material in human civilization. Yet, it is also one of the toughest production processes to manage. Beyond the sourcing of tonnes of aggregates and raw inputs, cement producers face production challenges in keeping their operations running.

A key process challenge is the downtime due to equipment damage caused by the very nature of working with cement. As virtually anyone who has worked with cement in any capacity knows, cement dust is all pervasive and reaches every surface and crevice of machinery. For the larger mechanical devices in a cement production process, this may not be much of a problem as the dust can be ignored or the effect may take a long time to manifest.

However, when it comes to the electronic heart of the automation process, cement dust can become a critical operations issue.

When one of India’s most reputed cement producers wanted to boost its cement production capacity, they needed a system integrator who could take on the Herculean task of creating a state-of-the-art process control for cement. The solution would require all the distributed controls, drives, motors, switchgear and instrumentation to have resilient connections with greater failover redundancy in a tough operational environment.