I-Matrix 500

Basics Function for Operator

 Introduction
 Part of I-MATRIX
Power Supply I/O Box I-MATRIX

 Function of I-MATRIX
 Auto Batching
 Manual Batching
 Organizing report
 Recording information
Login In Process
 Turn on the Power, window will show as below:

 Entering the Login ID/FIN

 Pre-set by the service engineering or management
 Password
 Click “OK” for Login
**Note: Please do not forgot your password, if you do, ask
supervisor for exchange password
Exit & Log Out
 Two options can be choose when “EXIT”
 Log Off – Change other user(Save time, computer no need
restart)
 Shut Down – Exit the software and computer will shut down
Order & Delivery Creation
 Order Creation
 Make a order for Batching
 Here are the functionalities provided by the screen:
1. View, add and edit orders
2. Schedule deliveries of orders for batching:
3. View delivery status
4. Start the batching process with schedule deliveries
5. Set Order & Delivery options
Order & Delivery Management
 Add a New Order
 Order Code: a unique code to represent
the order
 Customer: The customer who requests
this order
 Project Site: the project site of the
customer
 Location: location of the project site
 Contract No: the contact (if any) for the
project site specified
 Product Code: the product code ordered
 Volume of Order: volume of the concrete
grade to be batched
**Note:When a delivery is confirmed, all deliveries that are above it in queue are also confirmed
***Note: Blue colour word column is compulsory to enter the information
 Add a New Order(Other Information)
 PO Number: Purchase Order
number given by your customer
 Date/Time of Delivery: date and
time this order will have to be
delivered
 Date/Time of Order: date and time
this order is made. Default is
current date and time.
 Ordered By: the customer’s
representative who made this
order
 Interval: interval between
deliveries
 Progressive Total: The accumulated
delivery total for this order • Status: The status of the order
 Confirm before Delivery: This is to • Cash Sales and its Unit Price
indicate whether is there a need to • No of Loads: This keeps track of the running
call your customer before batching
and/or sending the delivery number of loads that have been made
 Delivery Schedule
 Delivery Schedule
 Consistence delivery the
concrete
 Subsequence supply

 Quick Delivery
 add more than one
delivery
 Return Concrete to a Delivery
 Input the Return Concrete type and the
volume returned
 If this concrete returned is meant to be
diverted to another customer, select
the Diversion option and DO No you
want to divert to
 Click [Compute (F2)]. The return
concrete computation is displayed on
the table
 Make your adjustment on Total column
by typing into cells of the grid
 Start Batching
 Two modes batching can be
select:
 Manual Batching
1. Select the “Delivery Status” on
Order & Delivery
Management Screen
2. Click “Manual Batching”

 Auto Batching
 Click “Start Batching” on “Order
& Delivery Management Screen”
Auto Batching
Delivery queue
Weighing Bar
Truck information

Start Batching

Mixing time

For discharges
concrete

Batching Messages

Discharge bars Batching Messages

 Weighing Bar Detail Target amount and
batch amount

Ingredient Moisture(for sand

code & Aggregate only)

Batch Batch Batching in Variance

Number Progress Progress
Batch completed
Discharge Bar Detail
Concrete Discharging
 Dry Mix Plant: For dry mix plant, there is no mixer, so during
discharging phase, the ingredients are discharged directly
into truck.

 Wet Mix Plant: With wet mix plant, during mixing phase, the
batching screen will display the mixing status
Concrete Discharge –Auto Discharge
 System discharge of concrete: After mixing time has been
elapsed, the system controls the opening of the mixer/concrete
holding hopper gates to discharge into truck.
 If Discharge Prompt option is not selected, the discharge process will
start instantaneously without asking for user input
 If Discharge Prompt option is selected, the button [Discharge] is
enabled, click [Discharge] and the system will start the discharging
process automatically

Note: The System/Manual Discharge of Concrete Mode is set via System Options
Concrete Discharge –Manual Discharge
 Manually discharge concrete:You control the discharge gates and
inform I-Matrix when discharging is complete.
 When system is not ready for discharge, the Ready For Discharge label
indicates “No” and the button [Complete] is disable
 When system is ready for discharge (i.e. mixing completes), the label
Ready For Discharge turns to “Yes” and the button [Complete] is enable
 Manually discharge the concrete, then click [Complete] to finish the
discharge process.
Pop-up Dialog Boxes
During batching process, batching dialogs may pop to inform
users about the batching process / errors or get the required
user inputs. These dialog boxes are:
 Ingredient Level Warning Dialog
 Input Truck and Driver
 Chopping Failed
 Limit Switch not Detected
 Weighing/Discharging Jam
Ingredient Entry
Ingredient
Aggregate

Admixture Ingredient Cement

Water

View Ingredient function

Add New Ingredient
 General Information
 Ingredient Type: Either Aggregate, Cement,Water or Admixture
 Ingredient Name: Name of the ingredient
 Ingredient Code: Code of the ingredient. If the ingredient type is Water,
select one of the three option buttons: Clean, Chilled, Recycled)
 Moisture: Moisture is the percentage of water in aggregate (apply on
‘aggregate’ type only)
 Tolerance: The acceptable error for the actual weighed amount from the
target. Can be in ‘%’ or ‘Kg’.
 Assignment Ingredient Location
 Storage Location
 Double click to assign the location for the ingredient
 [>>] button for add all location, [<<] for remove all location

**Note: You can save an ingredient without specifying the locations, but you have to specify the
locations for all ingredients before exiting from the Ingredient menu. The ingredients without any
location will be shown red on View Ingredient screen.
Inventory Maintain
 Do not maintain inventory level: the
ingredient inventory is not maintained
 Maintain inventory level by ingredient: the
ingredient inventory is maintained by
ingredient only, i.e. not by specific
location. If this option is selected, you
must specify the Start Balance of the
ingredient.
 Maintain inventory level by Storage **Note: Once a physical stock-take is done
locations: the ingredient inventory level for an ingredient, its Start Balance cannot
is maintained for every location which be edited
stores the ingredient. If this option is
selected, you must specify the Start
Balance of individual locations by
entering into the Start Balance column
of Location table at the bottom of the
dialog
Weighing Type and Weighing Proportion
 An ingredient is stored in several locations. During batching, those
locations can be weighed concurrently or sequentially.
 To weigh the ingredient concurrently, select ‘Concurrent’ option.
 To weigh the ingredient sequentially, select ‘Sequential’ option. Then
specify the weighing proportion for each location by entering the
numbers into Weigh Proportion column of Location table at the
bottom of the dialog.

Note: If the ingredient has only one

location, Concurrent weighing will be
automatically selected.
Overall View of the screen
Discharge Formula
 Steps or sequence in the discharge the ingredient
Discharge Formula
 Add a new Name of the Formula
discharge formula
 Discharge Formula
Name: The name
of the
formula/sequence
as assigned by you
 Mixing Time: If
your plant is a Mixing Time
wet-mix plant,
this will be
enabled for you to
enter the mixing
time for this
particular
discharge formula Delete step
Add Step Edit step
Discharge formula - Add Step
 Ingredient Type: if there are 2
admixtures in the design mix, both
will be discharged at the same time.
 Start Trigger: The step in which this
current step depends on to start
discharging. The 1st step in the entire
discharge formula does not need a
‘start trigger’.
 Start time or %: The trigger point
based on the ‘start trigger’, e.g. to
start discharging cement when
aggregate has discharged 30% of the Note: Discharge Point: -specific
discharge needs to be partnered
weighed amount, you would enter with the correct design mix, else
‘30%’ for this field. the system will prompt an error.
 Stop time or %: The point which the
step is stopped.
Discharge formula- Basic rule
• Step can be control either in
1. Time – in second, how long time for this step start or stop
2. Percentage – %, how many ingredient discharged
• First step ingredient normally set Aggregate and used time for
stop time
• For the percentage control, the total discharge must be equal
to 100%
**Note: Special care needs to be taken when adding or editing steps in a discharge
formula. Review the formula before save and apply.
Design Mix
Design Mix Entry
 Design Mix is the volume contain of the concrete
 View Design Mix can know the concrete detain what
ingredient used at the concrete
Design Mix – Add a new design mix
 Product Code: The concrete’s product code as
assigned by you
 Concrete Mix Design: The design mix name
 Discharge Formula: The discharge formula name
which is used to discharge with the design mix
during batching
 To view the discharge formula, click [View
Formula], details of the discharge formula will
be shown.
 Slump: Slump of the concrete
 Strength: Concrete strength
 Description: Concrete description
Design Mix – Add a new design mix
Delete Ingredient
Edit Ingredient

Amount
Add Ingredient
Aggregate - kg
Sand - kg
Water - kg/L
Admixture - L
Ingredient Name
Design Mix – Matching with discharge formula
 Design Mix must match with the discharge formula chosen

 An error messenger will pop up to show the design mix does

not matching with the discharge formula

Note: The design mix must match

the discharge formula for it to be
saved successfully. An error dialog
will appear if the design mix does
not match the discharge formula.
 Importing Design Mix using Excel File
 Step for importing design mix formula
1. Click on Generate Import Template
2. Input Product Code, Concrete Grade, Slump, Strength and Discharge Formula
Name into General information columns
3. Enter the amount of ingredients needed for each design mix. If any
ingredient is not used, simply leave that cell empty.
4. Repeat until you finish inputting all the design mixes
5. Save the file

General information Ingredients

Importing Design Mix
 Example of a design mix file

 Click the “Import Design Mix, and Select the file location
Import result

 Three import results

1. Design mixes are
successfully imported Duplicate Design
Mixes section
2. Design mixes have errors
3. The number of design
mixes which are already
existed in the system
Export Design Mixes
 The design mixes on system can export to an Excel file for
record
 Select the location of the file
to export
Customer Entry
 Add New Customer-Step 1
 Step 1:General information
1. Customer ID (compulsory): the system alto assigns a customer
ID according to the running order in Customer Option (will be
described later).You can change this Customer ID if needed.
2. Customer Name (compulsory): Name of the customer
3. Address: customer’s address
4. Country
5. Postal Code
6. Main Tel
7. Remarks
 Add New Customer-Step 2
 Step 2:Project Site Information
 A customer can have one or more project sites.
 Each project site can be located in one or more locations.

**Note: Step 2 (Project Site information) is an optional step.You still can save the customer
without entering Project Site information.
 Add New Customer-Step 3
 Step 3: Contract Restriction
1. For contract’s period
2. Restrictions enforced on the contracts
View Customer
 Customer Option
 system-generated ID will be automatically displayed
 Each ID Format consists of three parts
 Front (prefix)
 Running Order
 Back (suffix)

*Note:The maximum number of customers supported by this

ID format is 999. After that, you will have to change the format
in order to add new customer.
Truck / Driver Entry
 Driver ID must be create before assign the driver to the
truck
Add New Employee
 Enter the necessary
information for the
employee
 Set the designation to
“Truck Driver”

**Note: Only the employee’s designation is

‘Truck Driver’ can be assigned to a truck in
Truck Module
Truck Management
View and Management Truck

Note: If a truck is shown in red, either its Road Tax, Inspection or Insurance is expired. The
expired field is bold.
Edit or Add New Truck
 Transport Company: the transport company
that the truck belongs to.
 Truck Code (compulsory): a unique code to
represent the truck.
 Truck Capacity (compulsory): the default
capacity is specified in Truck Option
 Reg No:The truck’s registration or license
number.
 Cost Centre: Truck’s cost centre.
 Road Tax Exp: the expiry date of the truck’s
road tax
 Insurance Exp: the expiry date of the truck’s
insurance
 Inspection: the upcoming date of the truck’s
inspection
 Status: the current status of the truck (At
Work-shop, Broke Down, Driver-Off Duty,
Loan Out, Return/Stand By, Truck-out
Assign Driver to Truck
Available Truck
Available Driver

Assigned Track with Drive

Transport Company
Cost Centre
 Functions:
 Add new Cost Centre
 Input the Cost Centre name into the text box
 Delete a Cost Centre: Select the Cost Centre on the list
Truck Option
 Truck Code Format: the
format of Truck Code that the
system uses to generate
Truck Code running
number
 Transport Company Code
Format: the format of
Transport Company Code
 Default Truck Capacity: the
default capacity of truck
which appears when you
add a new truck
 Prompt truck and driver during
batching: For appear the
Truck Prompt Dialog
every batching delivery
Inventory Entry
View Supplier List
View Ingredient Order
 The ingredient orders are displayed on Ingredient Order Table.
The orders which satisfy the following conditions are
displayed
 All orders made in the selected month are displayed,
regardless of their status
 Late orders made before the selected month are displayed.
Those are the orders which have ‘To be fulfilled’ or ‘On hold’
status
To be fulfilled, but already late
To be fulfilled by the selected date
Other statuses
Add new Ingredient Order
• Supply Code: I-Matrix will generate a
unique code to this order.You can
choose to over-ride with your
choice of code
• Ingredient: The ingredient ordered
• Amount ordered:The amount of
ingredient ordered
• Supplier:The supplier from which
the order is made
• Ordered by: The employee who made
this order
• Date and Time of Order: Default is the
current date and time
• Date and Time of Supply: Default is the
current date and time.
• Order Status: by default, ‘To be *Note :You can add new status for the order status
fulfilled’ is selected
Add Inventory Delivery
 Truck In Weight – weight of
the truck before unloading the
material
 Truck Out Weight – weight of
the truck after unloading the
material

Note: Only those orders which have ‘To be

fulfilled’ status can new deliveries be added
Inventory Maintain-Physical Level

 Key in the physic value for the

ingredient
Inventory Maintain-Update

 Key in the order value for the

ingredient
Inventory Maintain- Stock take
Select the date for view the stock
Inventory Maintain- Option
 Supply Code Format: the format that
the system uses to generate Supply
Code
 Supply ID Format: the format that the
system uses to generate Supply ID
 End of Day Status: the order status
which will be applied for all ‘To be
fulfilled’ orders if [End of Day] button
is clicked
 Weigh Bridge Comm Port: (only
available if Weigh Bridge module is
installed) the serial comm. port that
the system uses to interface with
weigh indicator
Adjustment of Parameter
1. Aggregate Ingredients’ Moisture
2. Freefall of compartments, silos, tanks and
weighing hoppers
3. Delay time of aggregate transporters and cement
transporters
4. Chopping time of compartments, silos and tanks
5. Mixing parameters
6. Cement proportion in design mixes
Adjustment of Parameter – Aggregate
Moisture
The adjustment values
must fall in ‘Moisture
Adjustment Range’ specified
in ‘Aggregate Option’. This
range is displayed on
Adjustment Range at the top
of the table.
Adjustment of Parameter – Free fall

adjust freefalls of the bins and weighing adjust freefalls of the storage tanks and
hoppers weighing hoppers

adjust freefalls of the silos, transporters adjust freefalls of the silos, transporters
and weighing hoppers and weighing hoppers
Adjustment of Parameter – Transport
Delay
The new values values must
be in the range specified in
System Options.
Adjustment of Parameter – Chopping
Time

The chopping time are organized into four groups: Aggregate

(bins), Cement (silos), Water (tanks) and Admixture (tanks)
Adjustment of Parameter – Mixing
Parameters
 Adjust the mixer gate’s
open time and concrete
holding hopper’s open
time by keying the
values into text box
 You can also adjust the
mixing time for each
discharge formula by
keying in the cells under
‘Adjusted’ column of
Mixing Time table.
Adjustment of Parameter –Cement
Proportion

Note: The total proportion of one ingredient

must be 100%
Cut off(Stopping)
 Pre-cut off
 The stopping time preset at the adjustment, the cut off will
follow the setting
 The setting can be set at the adjustment function

 Dynamic cut off

 Cut off immediately for any emergency case
 The cut off function at the batching process screen
DO Printing
 The Delivery Order(DO) will automatically
print after the “Batch” button pressed
 Or manual print the DO by click on the
Print DO on main screen

Print DO
(ALT+P)
F9 Batch
Report Printing and Selection
 Report are organised into 3 categories:
 Daily Reports;
 Monthly Reports; and
 Other types of ad-hoc reports
Report Selection Detail
Select Report period Select Report title

Select Report’s time

Select DO number
Select Report type

Select printer

Print Report
Report Setup Preview Report
Function Detail
 Set period of printings: for some reports you can specify the
period to generate the reports.
 Today: print the data of today
 Month: print the data of the month and year specified
 Period: print the data of the period between Start Date and End Date
 For DO and DR report only: Select a Delivery to print based on DO
number.
 Select the date that delivery was create
 Choose the DO number in the combo box
 Select the printer:
 Choose the printer to print by Select Printer combo box
Print Preview
 Preview the report before printing
 The combo box allow selecting of pages available for
viewing
 Monthly report can preview before printing
Printer Setup(Troubleshooting)
Template used

Printer Port must match with

the setting of the print setting
Abort batching / Void Do
 The orders between the period
selected are displayed at Order
Listing Table
 Select an order, its deliveries
are shown on Delivery Listing
Table. The status of those
deliveries are listed on the last
column
 To change status of a delivery,
double click at the status For void DO or
column on that delivery change it’s status
 You are able to sort existing
result by Delivery Date, Order
Code, Customer name,
Concrete Grade or Vol of
Order by double clicking on
the column header.
Note: Status of Invalid DO represent void DO
General hardware checkup
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