Bin Fill System

Bin Fill System Booklet Page

“Command Alkon’s Automatic Bin Fill System fulfills a critical role within Florida Rock’s Ready Mix production operations. The Automatic Bin Fill System consistently and reliably ensures the right materials are always available in the plant to meet our production needs. We own seven of them; more are sure to follow in the future.”
Terry Smith
Florida Rock Industries

The Automatic Bin Fill System provides a fast, automated and cost-effective way to get materials from underground storage bunkers into overhead bins. The system's standard controls permit automatic monitoring and replenishment for up to six bins and allows priority-first replenishment if materials from one underground storage bunker are required more often than others.

The system is designed to:

• determine the need for a material
• rotate the turnhead or shuttle conveyor into the correct position
• turn on the feed belts as needed
• open the correct feed gate on the underground storage silo
• monitor the process until filling is complete. 

As the system sequences from one material to the next the Automatic Bin Fill system will:

• close the gate in use on the underground storage
• determine the turnhead positioning delay
• open the feed gate for the next material while insuring the proper belt delay to prevent cross contamination of material bins. 

Any or all materials can be manually overridden at any time.  An alarm indicator alerts the user to plant malfunctions.  The emergency stop button halts all related plant motion in the event of a belt break or other hazard.