A gritty solution for Germany’s winter road conditions
Germany needs a well organized winter road service when it comes to keeping the traffic moving on snowy and icy roads. The lifeblood of this operation is the consistent supply of road salt for gritting.
To ensure sufficient provisions are distributed and replenished ‘intelligent inventory’ management of road salt is used. To provide this data has been integrated into a management system to optimize distribution and logistics processes.
The result is an inventory management system called Salt Manager, which is based on a vendor management inventory (VMI) model. The system ensures demand-actuated replenishment of the user’s storehouses and silos. Salt suppliers and distributors monitor the stocks and co-ordinate deliveries to local councils as well as regional motorway maintenance authorities.
The basic salt stockpile level data is provided by VEGA non-contact radar sensors that measure the levels in storage silos and storehouses to deliver the groundwork information needed for uninterrupted re-supply. Measured data is usually sent automatically via telemetry system and can be accessed via the Internet at any time. In addition to the data transfer to Salt Manager, the level can also be displayed locally on site with a PLICSCOM module mounted at ground level that is weatherproof and backlit.
VEGA have worked closely together with the customer from the start of the project. With their radar sensor VEGAPULS 67, VEGA provide crucial measurement technology that is simple, easy to use, and immune to dust clouds, condensate and salt build-up.
Being non-contact there is no risk of abrasion damage to the sensor. With its plastic-encapsulated antenna system and highly resistant plastic housing, the sensor is optimally protected against the extremely corrosive medium and environment.
Latest versions of the radar have integrated radio or GPRS technology to make the transmission of the data and installation of the units even easier. VEGA use a web-based system, WEB VV, for monitoring and publishing data for remote sites with bespoke web page design to suit customer requirements along with email and text message alerts when alarm levels are reached.
VEGA Controls Ltd, Kendal House, Victoria Way, W. Sussex RH15 9NF; tel: +44 (0)1444 870055; fax: +44 (0)1444 870080; email: info@uk.vega.com
To ensure sufficient provisions are distributed and replenished ‘intelligent inventory’ management of road salt is used. To provide this data has been integrated into a management system to optimize distribution and logistics processes.
The result is an inventory management system called Salt Manager, which is based on a vendor management inventory (VMI) model. The system ensures demand-actuated replenishment of the user’s storehouses and silos. Salt suppliers and distributors monitor the stocks and co-ordinate deliveries to local councils as well as regional motorway maintenance authorities.
The basic salt stockpile level data is provided by VEGA non-contact radar sensors that measure the levels in storage silos and storehouses to deliver the groundwork information needed for uninterrupted re-supply. Measured data is usually sent automatically via telemetry system and can be accessed via the Internet at any time. In addition to the data transfer to Salt Manager, the level can also be displayed locally on site with a PLICSCOM module mounted at ground level that is weatherproof and backlit.
VEGA have worked closely together with the customer from the start of the project. With their radar sensor VEGAPULS 67, VEGA provide crucial measurement technology that is simple, easy to use, and immune to dust clouds, condensate and salt build-up.
Being non-contact there is no risk of abrasion damage to the sensor. With its plastic-encapsulated antenna system and highly resistant plastic housing, the sensor is optimally protected against the extremely corrosive medium and environment.
Latest versions of the radar have integrated radio or GPRS technology to make the transmission of the data and installation of the units even easier. VEGA use a web-based system, WEB VV, for monitoring and publishing data for remote sites with bespoke web page design to suit customer requirements along with email and text message alerts when alarm levels are reached.
VEGA Controls Ltd, Kendal House, Victoria Way, W. Sussex RH15 9NF; tel: +44 (0)1444 870055; fax: +44 (0)1444 870080; email: info@uk.vega.com
