Ram position also provides substantial information on the progress of mixing [27, 28]
and can be monitored by conventional displacement transducers. Figure 7.19 shows an
idealised ram position profile for the mixing cycle used to illustrate the power profile in
Figure 7.18, characteristic of tangential rotor mixers. At the start of the mixing cycle, the
rubber engages progressively with the rotors, allowing the ram to descend as the amount