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Antares puts the plus in sensor technology.
The Antares Plus roller mill optimizes yield and ﬂour quality
thanks to additional sensors.
The Antares roller mill stands for perfect grinding,
the highest standard of sanitation and consistently
reliable operation. The further development of the
Antares Plus brings together all these beneﬁts -
and offers an advantage for yield, with maximum
ﬂour quality and reduced energy consumption,
thanks to new sensor technology.

sured actual value with the target value. The Antares
Plus control system records the deviations and automatically adjusts the grinding gap to the target value.
The result: consistent quality with minimized use of
energy. The sensor-controlled grinding gap adjustment automates this former manual procedure and
enables millers to invest more time in their core tasks.

Bühler AG in Uzwil, Switzerland has been manufacturing
rolls since 1860. Company founder, Adolf Bühler, took
then the revolutionary principle of the roller mill and began
industrial production. 155 years later the roller mill still
forms the core element of any grain mill. In the roller mill,
cleaned cereal grains - and these could be wheat, durum,
corn, rye, barley or malt - are processed into the ﬁnest
ﬂours.

Temperature monitoring
In the new Antares Plus roller mill, the modern sensor
technology not only checks the particle size but also
the temperatures of the rollers and roller bearings.
Where contact pressure is too high, there is winding
or dry running, the rollers increasingly heat up. This
can be prevented by constant temperature monitoring of the roller surfaces. Ongoing checking of the
roller temperature ensures consistent product quality,
particularly where there are few operators. Thanks to
the temperature sensors in the roller bearings, wear
and tear on the bearing or lack of grease is picked up
early. Preventive monitoring of the temperature of the
rollers and roller bearings thereby ensures maximum
operational safety and high ﬁnal product quality.

Antares success story
The Antares roller mill is the ﬂagship of the extensive
Bühler roller mill portfolio. It combines 155 years of Bühler
experience with the latest knowledge in terms of grinding
and hygiene, and it is the worldwide reference for modern
roller mills in the milling industry. Since the launch in 2008,
more than 3,000 Antares top-of-the-range roller mills have
already been sold. The market success of Antares is due
to its robustness, even feed and grinding and the highest
standards of sanitation thanks to the use of stainless steel
and sophisticated insulation.
A "plus" thanks to sensor technology
With the "Plus" version, Bühler opens a new chapter in the
success story of Antares. The new Antares Plus roller mill
ensures perfectly coordinated grinding with minimal pneumatic elevations. Energy consumption and ﬂour quality are
in the optimal range. Antares Plus is ﬁtted with an automatic grinding gap adjustment and the PSM Online MYTA
particle size measuring device as standard. Temperature
monitoring of the rollers and bearings also ensure maximum operating safety and high production uptime.
PSM Online MYTA continuously measures the particle size
distribution in the ground product and compares the mea-

"The optimal combination for the roller ﬂoor"
The new Antares Plus roller mill provides the best effect on break passages and the head reduction, but
can also be used for other passage types based on
customer requirements. Combined with the conventional Antares roller mill, it forms an ideal combination
on the roller ﬂoor of any mill.
With Antares Plus, Bühler is taking another step on
the path towards the "automatic mill".

The author of this article is:
Michael Tremp
Product Manager Grain Milling at Bühler AG, Uzwil, Switzerland
E-mail: michael.tremp@buhlergroup.com
For more information, see Page 114.

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