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Technology · Overview

The physics behind the finish.

A single nervous system across five mill platforms — closed-loop rotor control, integrated classification, full process telemetry.

Control
Closed-loop
Classification
Integrated
Protocols
OPC-UA · Modbus
Compliance
ATEX · GMP · CIP
[ Photo — THOR control architecture ]
01 / Overview

A common platform.

THOR mills share a control architecture, sensor stack and parts strategy. The rotor and process geometry change per platform — but the brain stays the same. That is how a customer running a Pin Mill in one plant and a Jet Mill in another sees one HMI, one alarm logic and one data schema.

The integrated classifier loop is what turns a mill into a finishing tool: it lets product exit only when it has hit the target d50, recirculating coarse fraction without operator intervention.

02 / Working principle

Energy in, surface area out.

Size reduction is a conversion of mechanical energy into new particle surface area. The mill family you choose determines how that energy is delivered — impact, attrition, compression or fluid energy — and the efficiency of the conversion.

Each THOR platform is matched to a regime: hammer and pin to impact; ball to attrition; jet to fluid energy; classifying to cut and return.

03 / Control & data

Telemetry as standard.

Every THOR mill ships with OPC-UA and Modbus TCP. Drop it into your historian and you get the same signal set — rotor RPM, motor draw, vibration RMS, ΔP across the classifier, bearing temperatures — across every platform in your portfolio.

SignalRangeProtocol
Rotor speed0 – 6,000 rpmOPC-UA / Modbus
Motor power draw0 – 250 kWOPC-UA / Modbus
Bearing temperature−40 to 200 °COPC-UA / Modbus
Vibration RMS0 – 25 mm/sOPC-UA / Modbus
Classifier ΔP0 – 10 kPaOPC-UA / Modbus

See the platforms this powers.

Each THOR mill family is built on the architecture above. Pick by feed, target size and duty.