Measure one distance inside a stopped mill — from the lining at the top down to the top of the balls — and this tells you how full each chamber is, how many tonnes of balls are in there, and how many tonnes to add to reach the loading you want. Press MEASUREMENTS on the board to type your mill in. Everything is pure geometry; nothing is estimated or fitted.
Clinker reduction, high electricity prices and tighter cement specifications put the grinding circuit under pressure. The fastest gains usually come from finding the real constraint before changing equipment or operation.
Turn a tape reading into filling percentage, tonnes in the mill and the exact tonnage to add or remove before loading becomes a hidden production constraint.
Build a connected grinding audit: save every mill separately, reload previous measurements, compare changes over time and issue an editable report for the plant team.
Connected to the industry conversation around clinker-factor reduction, grinding energy, blended cement and quality control reported in World Cement, CemNet and Global Cement.See process-tool plansThis tool tells you how much. It does not tell you which ball size.