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#INTERNAL MIXER CAMTWIST MANUAL#

Quality Control Analysis – Your operator should have basic skills on quality control with an outlook to meet your set mix quality parameters in every batch.Critical Thinking – Operating a rubber mixer requires critical thinking skills because your operator should use logic and reasoning to identify alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems he faces while mixer is in operation.Hence, he should have the experience or knowledge on mixers to determine/read the causes of any operating errors when they occur, judge the gravity of the error and also decide what to do about it – whether to reset the mixer, or escalate to supervisor or raise a service visit request of the manufacturer’s engineer. Troubleshooting, Judgment and Decision Making – Your operator is the first point of contact with your mixer in operation.It is not necessary (while it is preferred) that they read English, because you could translate these documents to your operator’s local language for ease of reading. Hence, reading skills is very important for a successful operator. Your operator should be able to understand written sentences and paragraphs in these documents.

#INTERNAL MIXER CAMTWIST MANUAL#

Or there could be a training manual in some instances. Again your compounding process may involve specific work related instructions or SOP.

Reading Comprehension – An operating and maintenance manual is normally supplied together with the rubber mixer.

Speaking – Your operator should be able to talk to you (or his supervisor) to convey information effectively be it to report data/problems/incidents as applicable in a timely manner.

He should actively listen to the sounds of the mixer and its motor during a mixing cycle pay full attention to what his supervisor (or you) or his colleagues on the mixing room safety are saying, take time to understand the points being made, and ask relevant questions.

Active Listening – Your operator should be a skilled listener.

He has to ensure that the mixer is kept clean, safety features are functional, upstream and downstream equipment along with all accessories (like cooling water, hydraulic/pneumatic system, temperature control unit (TCU), lubrication system, etc) are ready

Monitoring Operations – The most important skill of your operator should be to have a keen eye for watching gauges, dials, or other indicators in the control panel or HMI to make sure the mixer is working properly.

Control of Operations – Your mixer operator should be able to adjust ram pressure, control the mixing process, set parameters and ensure its completion as per SOP (temperature or time or energy as programmed/specified).(Updated on 23rd Dec 2015: Flip through this post in our digital edition and download here)

Here is the list of top 15 skills for an successful batch mixer (or kneader) operator. Ever pondered on the skills that make a mixer operator successful? Hence, the cost of errors or omissions are very high when compounding a batch in a mixer. This could be an Internal Mixer (Banbury or Intermix) or Rubber Dispersion Kneader depending on the size of your organization and/or products manufactured. And mixing machinery are the mother equipment. Rubber Mixing is a capital and energy intensive operation.