Increasing productivity through process automation in the food industry

Ensuring the speed of a line where different additives enter according to the recipes represents a major challenge in the food industry. To limit machine downtime, our customer wanted to automate and manage its dosing and mixing unit for powdery recipes dedicated to the flour milling and baking industry.

In order to support the efficiency of this automation, our client wanted a “real time” communication solution with its production management ERP in an ascending / descending traceability model and in a “expected results vs. obtained results” logic.

Customer challenge

  • Automation with low operator intervention
  • Guarantee the quality of semolina mixtures
  • Optimise production rates
  • Raw material management: silos and raw materials in referenced packaging
  • Guarantee the production of recipes generated under ERP
  • Guarantee the accuracy and regularity of dosages (weighing management)
  • Production tracking: raw materials, recipes, batch numbers, etc.
  • Tracing in an expected / obtained / ascending / descending logic

The Comeca solution

Thanks to our know-how, ranging from sensor/actuator to database management, as well as our knowledge of the agro-industry world, we were the main actor in this project.

The chosen solution:

  • Functional analysis in collaboration with the IT specialists managing the ERP
  • Ergonomic studies with the production operators
  • Design and implementation of the entire electrical installation
  • Development of the automatic dosing/mixing system using the SIEMENS S7-1500 PLC
  • Supervision under WINCC
  • Development of the Database Management System (DBMS)
  • Recipe management
  • Management of production batches

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