Miller Magazine Issue: 131 November 2020

72 MILLER / November 2020 When is the right time to change rollers? It’s a crucial question for any plant operator in the food, feed or brewing industry, and getting the answer right can make a significant difference to the plant’s productivity and profitability. Wear-and-tear on rollers reduces yield and increases operating costs. Traditional methods of assessingwear are time consuming or subjective. rollDetect provides accurate measurements for fluted and smooth rollers. With the full service, plant operators can calculate the cost savings that can be achieved by replacing rollers at exactly the right time. Taking the guesswork out of roller maintenance How Bühler`s rollDetect service reduces cost and improves yields Flour milling is an ancient yet complex craft. Our food value chains rely as much today as they have for millennia on the miller’s ability to turn grain into a product that is healthy, nut- ritious, attractive, and safe for the consumer. The grinding rollers are at the heart of the operation. Spinning at high speed, they must work in perfect harmony, accurately separating the bran from the endosperm, passage after passage, producing ever finer flour. Achieving clean sizing is a fine art. It is not only the flour mill that relies on this process. It also plays a key role in the brewing and feed industries. In grist mills like the Mal- Roman Inauen Bill Ritchie Customer Service Sales Support Milling Solutions Bühler AG Uzwil, Switzerland roman.inauen@buhlergroup.com Technical Sales and Service Bühler Inc. North America william.ritchie@buhlergroup.com