Service portfolio for the dairy industry
Our service portfolio provides the solutions for both the general and the special requirements of dairies and cheese-making facilities. Typical examples are:
- Integrated process automation from milk delivery to the filling process
- Milk delivery
- Heating lines
- Storage, maturing and filling tanks
- Mixing and stirring tank systems
- ESL and UHT systems
- Fruit cooking systems
- Cooling systems, iced water storage
- Container handling
- Aseptic and sterile systems
- Membrane filtration (UF, NF, MF, RO)
- Butter machines
- Separator control
- Evaporation systems
- Spray drying systems
- Powder processing for milk, whey, lactose
- Cheese processing systems (hard cheese, soft cheese, Mozzarella)
- Salt bath controls
- Whey processing
- Heat recovery systems
- Wastewater systems
- Cooling systems
- Energy data recording
- Intelligent load management
- Automatic tank management
- Process level-wide management reporting
- Migration of existing control systems
Dairy solutions with Plant iT:
The success of our customers is based, among other things, on the tried-and-tested functions of our in-house developed process control system Plant iT. The integrated functions provide intelligent solutions for the following areas:
- Uniform material and raw material management
- Order lists for production, cleaning and filling
- Recipe-controlled program sequences
- Route control for integrated tank and route management
- Integrated monitoring functions for tanks and conveying routes
- Technological classes for aseptic system areas (e.g. steam barriers)
- Combination of continuous and discontinuous processes for the production of baby food with ingredient identification via label printer and barcode reader to ensure batch tracking
- Data acquisition and display facilities for milk heaters according to EU Regulation 0852/2004
- Production data acquisition and processing for drinking yoghurt filling plants with materials identification and batch traceability, including production to the Weihenstephan Standards
- Batch traceability (pre and post-tracking) to EU Regulation 178/2002
- Company-wide management reporting
- Interfaces for connection to various ERP systems (e.g. SAP/R3, FELIX, CSB MS Dynamics)
- Interfaces for connection of LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)
- Silo management for raw material management
- Visu Recorder for training staff and optimising process sequences
- Energy data management
- Production data management for filling plants
- Materials management and batch traceability for product tracing
- Production and efficiency reports (DIN, OEE)
- Management reporting for industry-wide reports
