A Data Platform for Crushing and Screening Equipment Manufacturers
Publish your crusher and screen specifications in Flow Designer. Keep them current. Ensure engineers, sales teams, and customers are always working from your actual machine data.
Why structured equipment data matters
When an engineer or consultant designs a crushing plant and selects one of your machines, they use whatever data they have to hand. If that data comes from a PDF from three years ago, a spreadsheet a colleague filled in from memory, or a brochure for a model that has since been updated, the simulation they build does not represent your current equipment.
The downstream effects are real: an engineer who simulates your machine at the wrong capacity may select a competitor's product instead, or specify your machine and find it underperforms against what was modelled. Neither outcome is good.
Flow Designer gives manufacturers a structured platform to publish and maintain machine data, so that simulations built on Flow Designer use current, accurate specifications for your equipment. The platform stores what engineers need for simulation, not what marketing needs for a catalogue.
From PDF brochures to live specification data
A PDF brochure is a snapshot. It is accurate at the time of printing and becomes progressively less accurate as the product range evolves. Corrections to PDFs require a new document, which then needs to reach everyone who has the old one — and rarely does.
In Flow Designer, machine data is a structured record, not a document. When you update a capacity table, correct a CSS range, or add a new chamber option, that change is immediately available to every user who selects that machine in a simulation. There is no document distribution delay.
The structured format that Flow Designer uses for machine data covers the fields that drive plant simulation calculations. For each machine model, the platform stores:
Jaw and gyratory crushers
Feed opening dimensions, CSS range, capacity by CSS, motor power, machine weight, and applicable feed gradation range.
Cone crushers
Chamber configurations, CSS range, eccentric throw options, capacity by CSS, motor power, head diameter, and application range (secondary, tertiary, quaternary).
Impact crushers (HSI and VSI)
Rotor diameter and width, feed opening, motor power range, throughput capacity, speed range, and typical product gradation characteristics for the material type.
Vibrating screens
Screen area (width × length per deck), number of decks, aperture range per deck, capacity per deck area, and inclination or horizontal configuration.
Flow Designer structures and presents manufacturer-supplied data. The accuracy of simulation results depends on the accuracy of the data provided. Flow Designer does not independently verify or validate manufacturer specifications.
Version control and approved data
Machine specifications change. New chamber options become available. Capacity ratings are revised after field experience. Motor sizes are updated. A model is discontinued and replaced.
In a PDF and spreadsheet world, these changes propagate slowly and incompletely. The old version of the brochure continues to circulate long after the correction has been made.
In Flow Designer, you update the machine record and the change is immediately available to every user who selects that machine. Old specifications are retired. Engineers using Flow Designer are working from current data.
- Update a capacity table when a model is revised
- Retire discontinued models so engineers are not specifying equipment you no longer make
- Add new models to the library at launch, so they are available to specify from day one
- Correct specification errors without needing to track down who has the old version
For detail on how specification records are structured and managed internally, see Crusher Specification Management.
How manufacturer data is used in Flow Designer simulations
When an engineer or sales team builds a plant flowsheet in Flow Designer, they select equipment from the library. If your machine is in the library with current specifications, it appears as a selectable option. When they place your machine in the circuit and run the simulation, Flow Designer uses your published performance data to calculate throughput and product gradation.
For a jaw crusher, this means the capacity calculation uses your actual feed opening dimensions and CSS range, not a generic jaw crusher model. For a cone crusher, it uses your chamber configuration and throw data. For a screen, it uses your actual deck area and capacity ratings.
The result is that simulations built with your equipment reflect how your machines are specified to perform, which makes the simulation more credible to the engineer using it and makes your equipment easier to compare and specify.
Keeping sales teams and customers aligned
When your equipment is in the Flow Designer library, it is available to every engineer, consultant, and sales team using the platform to design and simulate crushing plants. Your machines are part of the equipment library that users draw from when building plant flowsheets, which means your equipment is considered at the point of design, not just at the point of quotation.
For your dealers and distributors
Dealers can build plant proposals using your latest equipment data. They are working from current specifications, and they can share live proposals with customers via Flow Designer.
For your sales team
Internal sales engineers use current specifications when building customer proposals. New team members onboard to accurate data without relying on individual knowledge.
For engineers and consultants
Independent engineers specifying equipment for a project find your machines in the Flow Designer library with current data. This makes your equipment easier to include in a simulation and easier to specify.
For customers
Customers reviewing a plant proposal built in Flow Designer can see how your equipment is modelled in their specific circuit, based on your published specifications.
Who should consider the Flow Designer manufacturer data platform
Get your equipment into every plant simulation built on Flow Designer
Talk to us about publishing your crusher and screen data on the Flow Designer platform.
Frequently asked questions
What machine data does Flow Designer need from a manufacturer?
Flow Designer needs the key performance and dimensional data for each machine model: crusher type, feed opening or rotor diameter, capacity range by CSS or setting, power rating, machine weight, and model-specific performance parameters. Screen data includes deck area, aperture range, and capacity per deck area.
Who can see a manufacturer's data in Flow Designer?
Published machine data is available to engineers, consultants, and sales teams using Flow Designer to design and simulate crushing plants. Your machines become part of the equipment library that users draw from when building plant flowsheets.
Can a manufacturer control which machines are visible in Flow Designer?
Yes. Manufacturers publish the machines they choose to make available. Models can be added, updated, or retired as the product range changes. Discontinued models can be removed from the library so engineers are not specifying equipment you no longer supply.
Does Flow Designer publish commercially sensitive data?
Flow Designer publishes the performance and dimensional data that an engineer needs to include a machine in a plant simulation. The level of detail is comparable to a publicly available product brochure or datasheet. Pricing data is not part of the Flow Designer platform.
How does a manufacturer get started?
Contact us to discuss your machine range and the data format. We work with manufacturers to structure and publish their machine data in a way that integrates with the Flow Designer simulation engine.