The Weighing Masters
Senlogic Automation has established itself as a leading manufacturer of quality electronic weighing products in the country. R Ravichandran, Managing Director, Senlogic, in conversation with EI.

In July 2011, we achieved an important milestone by successfully commissioning 40 dumper weighing systems at West Bokaro colliery of Tata Steel, thereby contributing to the company's mine automation. All the systems have been integrated to the Mine GPS net work. This will help in optimising the distribution of dumper fleet within the mine. This is an ideal instrument for open cast mines deploying rigid dump trucks for monitoring productivity, to prevent over loading of dumpers, to optimise distribution of dumpers within the mine-as proper distribution of fleet in the mine cuts down on unproductive waiting period.

Senlogic, an ISO 9001 :2000 certified company offers a wide range of weighing products such as road weighbridges, rail static and rail in motion weighbridges, road weigh in motion weighbridges, crane scales, industrial automation products, juice weighing systems and on board weighing systems for front end loaders, forklifts, tipping trucks and mining machineries like dumpers, excavators. Incorporated in 2002 is promoted by R Ravichandran, a technocrat having 20 years experience in weighing field.

"We manufacture on board weighing systems for front end loaders, fork lifts ,tipping trucks, excavators and dumpers in technical collaborations with VEI, Italy, a renowned name for on board weighing systems throughout the World," says Ravichandran. "These high-end products are manufactured in technical collaboration with VEI of Italy, which are completely equipped with advanced features like tip off, huge memory, wireless data transfer and built-in printer to produce a wide range of reports. Our collaborator is having track record of selling 60,000 on board weighing systems across the globe and having a base in 19 countries," he adds.

According to Ravichandran, the company's on-board weighing systems provide economical solutions for wheel loaders, forklifts and dumpers to prevent over loading and speed up the loading process, to know the exact production for each machine and to optimise the vehicle loads and deployment. Also, it generates MIS report on the activities of the said vehicles. Senlogic's products assure the best value for money for the clients. Their products are operating successfully at railways, at reputed undertakings like Moil, Sail, CIL, VSP, NTPC, Rit?es, DV?C, Naval Dockyard and in reputed private sector companies like Larsen & Toubro, Tata Steel, Vedanta group, ACC, Maihar Cement, Binani Cement, JK Lakshmi Cement, India Cement TIL, etc.

Senlogic has got model approval for road and rail weigh bridges from the Legal Metrology Department, government of India and are also one of the approved vendors for RDSO, Lucknow, for the supply of rail- in- motion weigh bridges.

Senlogic has developed a group of skilled and motivate service engineers to provide effective after sales service to its products They have a full-fledged R&D department, which is continuously engaged in improvement of the products based on the feedback received from customers. The company's centres are located in different parts of the country.

Senlogic's on-board weighing systems provide economical solutions for wheel loaders, forklifts and dumpers to prevent over loading and speed up the loading process.