References: Food industry

Completed projects in the food industry

Food industry

Software for a Pfister MSR 3 weighing terminal

Canada

Plant data

  • Development of software to acquire batch data from a Pfister MSR 3 weighing terminal and store it in an Access database
  • The plant was delivered to Canada

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • Data recording and analysis using an Access database at the customer's request
  • Training

Food industry

Checkweighing of prepacked wafers

Germany

Plant data

  • Checkweighing of prepacked wafers
  • Approximately 300 raw materials and prepacked products
  • Access database and front end for data analysis

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Development of data communication with a verified legal-for-trade Mettler-Toledo scale
  • Construction of robust operator boxes with VIPA inputs/outputs
  • Development of an Access database and software for statistical analysis of weighing data
  • Data analysis at quality assurance workstations
  • Electrical engineering
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Control and visualisation of an animal feed plant

Germany

Plant data

  • Silo filling with different selectable conveying routes
  • Approximately 250 physical inputs/outputs
  • Control of multiple production stations
  • Management of approximately 50 raw materials
  • Integration and recording of all automatic and manual production steps
  • Vehicle monitoring using network cameras

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • Data recording and analysis
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Control and visualisation of a mixing line for powdered coffee production suitable for legal-for-trade verification

Germany

Plant data

  • Mixing line for powdered coffee production suitable for legal-for-trade verification
  • 450 physical inputs/outputs
  • Loss-in-weight dosing, belt weighing and batch weighing systems
  • Raw material monitoring system connected online to SAP
  • Recording of all automatic and manual production steps

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • Real-time data connection to SAP (RFC)
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction
  • Commissioning
  • Training
  • 24-hour support, 365 days a year

Food industry

Control and visualisation of mixing lines for powdered coffee production

Germany

Plant data

  • 4 mixing lines for powdered coffee production
  • 150 physical inputs/outputs per mixing plant
  • Belt weighing systems
  • Continuous oil dosing system in the milligram range

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction / modification
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Control and visualisation for mixing plants producing baked goods

Germany

Plant data

  • 2 mixing plants (kneaders) for baked goods production
  • Access database for process data analysis and data transfer to SOFT-M
  • Integration with the AZO control system
  • Multiple operator clients
  • Data recording at manual operating stations

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control, visualisation and an S88-2 batch system
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Control and visualisation of mixing plants for wafer production

Germany

Plant data

  • 7 mixing plants for wafer production
  • DOS batch management with Pfister MSR systems
  • Integration of AutomationX with batch management for viscosity measurement and trend recording
  • Data communication with 4 S7 controllers via MPI/Profibus
  • Data export to a MySQL database system
  • Beckhoff Ethernet I/O systems

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • DOS batch management
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Expansion of the automationX control system for a dough mixing plant

Germany

Plant data

  • 2 dough mixing plants for wafer batter production
  • MySQL database
  • Web front end
  • Database analysis
  • Integration with the AZO control system
  • Multiple operator clients
  • Data recording at manual operating stations

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Expansion of the existing automationX control system
  • S88-2 batch system
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control panel construction
  • Commissioning
  • Training

Food industry

Control and visualisation for glass jar depalletising

Germany

Plant data

  • Glass jar depalletiser feeding empty jars to the filling process
  • 150 physical inputs/outputs
  • Six variable-frequency drives
  • One positioning drive

Services provided by StaKo Tec

  • Site assessment and re-engineering of process control
  • Development of control and visualisation
  • Electrical engineering
  • Performance optimisation
  • Control panel modification
  • Integration of an SEW positioning drive
  • Commissioning
  • Training
  • Remote support

StaKo Tec GmbH & Co. KG

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