Case Study
Project objective
The project consists of automating the following points of the process in an integrated manner:
- Self-unloading system of ingredients and production paths, which controls the totality of functions performed in the factory.
- Control of truck reception, ingredient unloading, product self-unloading, laboratory and execution of production, packaging and palletizing routes.
- All the information is collected in the corporate database and the different plant reports are generated from it.
The system is based on Rockwell Automation hardware and custom-developed software:
- Supervision system and applications: Developed in Visual Basic.
- Database: SQL-Server.
- Controllers: PLC Rockwell Automation
- Information and control network: Ethernet.
- Device network: Remote I/O (Flex I/O, bar codes).
- Information for the carrier via television.
- Control of the entire production process from the reception of raw materials to the shipment of the final product.
- Generation of useful information for the client in order to make decisions that lead to the improvement of the business model.