miniPond 3F
Dosing/Filling Controller

The miniPond 3F weighing controller is designed for filling and bagging solids, bulk materials and liquids at medium to high throughput rates. It controls and monitors the complete dosing process and ensures excellent precision and repeatability even with difficult materials.

The controller’s practical automatic functions for zeroing or taring, for free-fall compensation and for checkweighing with tolerance evaluation are supplemented by selectable dosing settings for filling and dispensing processes. From 7 parameter sets, presettings for different filling weights and products can be conveniently selected.

Digital filters for optimum processing of the weighing signals and proven, powerful evaluation algorithms ensure maximum measuring accuracy, even under difficult conditions. Sophisticated control algorithms then continually optimize and adjust the weighing process. As a result, miniPond 3F is able to flexibly adapt to changes in the product properties, such as material density or flow behavior, during the filling process.

At the same time, frequently occurring disturbing influences, e.g. due to vibrations at the scales and in its vicinity or in the case of process fluctuations and switching operations, are reliably suppressed.

During operation, the miniPond 3F weighing controller automatically monitors a number of process parameters which help to optimize the system. Among others, filling weight, tolerances and process errors are recorded and evaluated. In addition, data such as counts and totals as well as diagnostic data are logged on the controller.

The weighing controller can be used stand-alone or networked and is customizable to different machine types. It is intuitive to operate, offers dialog-guided, digital adjustment and can also be configured as a multi-range or multi-interval scale. Up to 4 load cells can be connected.

The miniPond 3F can be flexibly integrated into almost any machine and control environment. For this purpose, the weighing controller offers 8 digital I/Os, COM port, Ethernet interface, Modbus protocol and optional fieldbus interfaces such as Profibus, Profinet or EtherNet/IP.
The integrated web server enables access via a browser, e.g. for setting parameters, for adjustment as well as for functional testing, and allows targeted fault and process diagnosis directly from the device. Also data backup, firmware updates and remote main­tenance can be carried out comfortably via the web interface.

Remote diagnostics and remote maintenance of devices at other locations via the Internet are also possible (if enabled accordingly). At the same time, the miniPond 3F can also be integrated into Industry 4.0-compliant structures and applications via the fieldbus, for example in condition monitoring applications on the supervisory control level or in the cloud. This makes the miniPond 3F not only a reliable, but also a future-proof weighing controller for automatic scales.