Technology/IT ¦ IDM
fresh cheese specialties – such as ricotta
and mascarpone, fresh milk and cream,
butter and drinking yogurt, some of
which is of organic quality.
Some 1100, mostly smaller, mountain
farms supply Milchhof, which runs
with perfectly organized sequences and
processes – and an efficient process
control system. This system grew in
stages over the years, not always uniformly,
and began to reach the limits
of its capacity. Brimi had to take action
to maintain its very high standard of
quality into the future, while complying
with the ever stricter regulations of
the Ministry of Health. One extremely
important issue is its demand for full
traceability of processes and products.
A non-compliant batch has to be detected
and the market informed within
four hours.
Quality, traceability, future
sustainability
The quality of the processing of the
fresh milk delivered daily is based on
annual totals of over 70 000 microbiological
and some 260 000 chemical
analyses. The results are archived and
must remain traceable, like all production
data, for at least two years beyond
the expiration dates of the products. In
effect, from the bag right back to the
dairy farmer.
Innovation blockage cleared Pavis Engineering,
a system integrator, has integrated
a new, reverse osmosis plant
automated with Simatic PCS7 into the
overall process. (Image: Siemens)
We got it all c overed …
… whether it be dice, shr ed, flakes,
slices or even customized shapes.
We have been in the food-processing
business for more than 60 years!
Precise
Durable
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holac Maschinenbau GmbH
Am Rotbühl 5
89564 Nattheim · Germany
Fon +49 7321 / 9645-0
E-Mail info@holac.de
The production has to run smoothly
under constant supervision. For example,
lengthy interruptions or faulty
components could lead to losses of
efficiency, poorer quality or increased
power consumption. Such lapses must
be detected in good time and reliably
prevented. The key tasks of the process
control system also include the
continuous improvement of the process,
which was no longer a straightforward
possibility with the existing
equipment. The production control
and I/O systems, which had been separately
expanded in a number of stages,
had reached their limits of memory
capacity and computing power, and
the communication mechanisms had
become obsolete and were no longer
adequate. In particular, exchange and
interaction with the company IT had
become increasingly difficult because