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Texaco's new logging system
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• A new system has recently been installed by Texaco Ltd, at two of its largest terminals, consisting of card read-out equipment for the automatic control and logging of tanker operations and the control and logging of vehicle entry and exit movements.
The equipment is the latest generation of Westinghouse Automation's Wesload System and has been installed at Kingsbury (Warwicks) and North London terminals to improve safety and stock control as well as increasing the security of the terminals themselves against the entry of unauthorized vehicles.
Each driver is issued with a coded identity card which performs the dual role of a key to the entry and exit gates and to the vehicle loading system. The loading system can only be operated if a rigid sequence of' actions is followed by the driver, among which is the insertion of the card into a card reader in the bay control unit.
The information fed into the bay control unit by the card and switch data is processed into the Wesload system to provide a print-out of the date, time of insertion and extraction of the card, the loading bay and vehicle number and the quantity of each product drawn in gallons. In this way each loading operation is fully monitored and at the end of each day a cumulative picture of the terminal's loading operation is provided which has improved the accuracy of the stock control and of the accounting procedure.
In addition to an information outpui unit a "mimic" panel is provided., at the terminal office which gives a visible indication of which operation has been reached at each bay. It also gives an alarm, audible and visible, if any part of the process or equipment is faulty.