The Obsolescence Check
Four things we see on plant floors every week. If any of them describes your line, an upgrade is worth a conversation — the cost of unplanned downtime far outweighs the cost of upgrading.
A Controller From Another Era
Slow by today's standards, and it will eventually fail. On the oldest generations, spare parts are no longer available at all.
Boards Nearing End Of Support
The same trajectory, a decade behind. Support windows close long before the mechanics wear out.
Volumetric Or Manual Mixing
You're working to set speeds, not absolute weights. Blend drifts whenever material changes.
Non-Controlling Gravimetrics
Measuring but not correcting — no machine-direction or cross-direction control on the line.
Find Your Starting Point
Where you are today decides what an upgrade looks like — and how quickly it pays back.
The module swaps by hand. Minutes, not days.
What You Keep
The blender, hoppers, augers and frame — all existing mechanics stay in place.
Your piping layout. No re-piping and no line rebuild.
Your operators' working knowledge. No re-training programme.
Your production schedule. The module swaps in minutes, not days.
What Changes
Current-generation control hardware, with spares and support available.
Up to ten more years of service life from equipment you already own.
True gravimetric correction — weighing and acting, not just weighing.
Line data you can actually use, on standard comms to your PLCs and ERP.
What An Upgrade Delivers
Wherever material is dosed, blended or conveyed, the same upgrade logic applies. This is not a single-process offer.
What Processors Tell Us Afterwards
Different plants, different processes, the same three outcomes.
The Line Kept Running
Control upgraded on existing mechanics, with production continuing through the changeover rather than stopping for a rebuild.
The Blend Stopped Drifting
Consistent ratios across changing material streams and batch sizes, with give-away brought back under control.
The Data Became Usable
Consumption and yield reported line by line, feeding straight into the plant systems already in place.
Named case studies available on request.
Never Stranded
TSM designs and manufactures its own control hardware and writes its own software. An upgrade from us never depends on another company's discontinued platform.
Designed and built by TSM, not sourced from a third-party controls vendor.
Written in house, so the roadmap is ours to keep supporting.
Parts and software support continue for years after install. Equipment running in 78 countries.
Download The Retrofit & Upgrade Brochures
Both documents arrive by email: the retrofit and upgrade options for gravimetric dosing, blending, conveying and control — on the lines you already run, TSM-built or not.
Retrofit — Blown Film: gravimetrics plus bubble and profile control — automatic air ring, IBC, CD gauge and width control, OptiCool and GPA EVO II measurement.
Upgrade — General: the TSM Nexus controller upgrade, and the full dosing, conveying, storage and integration scope on any gravimetric line.
Both set out why ageing controls — not the mechanics — are the real risk, with installed examples at Polystar and Polykemi.