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CONCRETE PRODUCTS & CAST STONE40 CPI %u2013 Concrete Plant International | India Edition %u2013 1 | 2026 www.cpi-worldwide.comheight to the machine operator. As the results of the optical quality control are displayed directly on the control panel, the operator can adjust settings immediately and achieve the desired quality more quickly.When producing new products for the first time, the machine operator benefits from a convenient copy function within the product management of the Masa plant control software. %u2018Search for and copy a similar product recipe, adjust one or two parameters, run it %u2013 it%u2019s absolutely easy!%u2019 says one machine operator, describing his experience of running-in a new product. %u2018Our run-in time, including fine-tuning, has been significantly reduced. %u2019No time-consuming teaching process is required for new products in the Masa system.Ensuring quality with auto-stop and smart controlExperienced machine operators often take on numerous additional tasks alongside production and are not at the control station around the clock. This becomes problematic when an unplanned drop in quality occurs during a planned absence %u2013 and the production machine continues running regardless. For this case, the Masa plant control offers a configurable auto-stop function: if the quality control detects a defined percentage of defective products, the machine shuts down in a controlled manner. This avoids unnecessary waste and increases production reliability.In addition, the machine operator can mark the production boards via the control system. Depending on the percentage of defects on the production board, this can trigger further intelligent processes:%u2022 Tilting device: The downstream Masa tilting device completely tilts the marked production board with defective products while they are still fresh, preventing them from entering the chamber system for curing and occupying storage capacity.%u2022 Marking as second-choice products: Alternatively, production boards with second-choice products can be marked. Although they remain in the ring, cost-intensive stations for surface treatment are automatically deactivated during the run.These functions are based on the digital board ID %u2013 a central component of Masa's integrative control approach.Masa Board ID instead of RFID %u2013smart data management for productionThe board ID is a unique, sequential number that is automatically assigned by the Masa plant control system to each production board as soon as it enters the block and paver production machine. Thanks to this technology, the time-consuming and costly retrofitting of production boards with digital signal transmitters such as RFID chips is completely eliminated. Like every other process step within the production plant, optical quality control generates a significant amount of data. Data transfer between the various processing stations in the plant can be carried out using different technical solutions. Masa relies on data transfer using so-called data telegrams in combination with the board ID. Data telegrams are standardised data records that accompany the production board digitally throughout the entire plant. Logging takes place at every station where relevant process steps take place and information is generated.The Masa plant control system can link various data sets to the board ID %u2013 ranging from simple information to complete information packages containing product data, recipes and other parameters. This also includes the log for each mixture, documented via a unique mixture ID. Depending on the option selected, Masa thus provides detailed insights into the individual production plant:Chamber preview %u2013real-time quality overview for the machine operatorThe %u2018Chamber preview%u2019 function gives the machine operator a quick, intuitive overview of the quality status of the products Chamber preview with visualisation of the percentage of rejects per production board