Offline measurements provide limited opportunity to closely track the process towards completion and rapidly detect any mechanical failure of the equipment. As a result, executing the process using offline measurements is likely to carry the unintended costs of wasted energy, compromised throughput and product quality. Inline technology that instantaneously detects the endpoint of a mixing process eliminates these issues, resulting in considerable economic return.

LIR technology is well suited to monitoring the mixing, blending or granulation processes, due to its capability of real-time measurements inline. The Force Pulse Magnitude (FPM) and Powder Consistency Factor (PCF) metrics recorded over the processing period provide unique process signatures, and, combined, the process fingerprint. The following examples of process monitoring illustrate the concept.