Industries · Food & Beverage

Product that spoils in hours needs data in minutes.

Hygienic automation solutions for food processing and dairy industries - from batch and recipe control through to end-of-line palletizing, with the traceability a recall investigation demands.

The challenge

The data that prevents spoilage is usually available all along.

Food and dairy losses are rarely caused by a refrigeration failure nobody could have prevented. They are caused by a condition drifting for hours while nothing was watching closely enough to raise an alarm in time.

Add high changeover frequency, washdown constraints and strict batch traceability requirements, and the case for instrumented, recorded automation becomes straightforward.

Our starting point is always the same: instrument the process, agree what good looks like, then automate. Visibility first, optimisation second.

Engineering

Electrical design, PLC, SCADA and robotics under one roof

Platform

MAPP MES / IIoT for OEE, quality and traceability

Delivery

Virtual commissioning before anything reaches your floor

Support

Global commissioning, with 24/7 remote support for AMC customers

How we help

Capabilities applied to Food & Beverage.

Hygienic design automation

Cell and conveyor design suited to washdown environments, with material and ingress-protection choices appropriate to the process.

Batch & recipe control

Recipe-driven batch operations with parameter recording, changeover management and consistent product-to-product repeatability.

CIP sequencing

Clean-in-place sequences controlled and recorded, so cleaning is verifiable rather than assumed.

Cold-chain monitoring

Continuous temperature and condition monitoring with alerting before product is at risk, not after it has spoiled.

End-of-line automation

Picking, packing and palletizing systems built for high-mix pack formats and frequent changeover.

Batch traceability

Ingredient batch to finished-pack genealogy for recall bounding and regulatory reporting.

Typical applications

Where we are usually asked to help.

  • Dairy processing and packaging line automation
  • Robotic palletizing and case packing
  • Batch and recipe control for process lines
  • Clean-in-place sequence control and recording
  • Cold-store and cold-chain condition monitoring
  • Filling and capping line integration
  • Ingredient batch traceability to finished pack
  • OEE monitoring across high-changeover lines
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Running a food or dairy line?

Tell us the process, the pack formats and the changeover frequency. We will scope automation that fits the hygiene requirement.

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