A Leading Process OEM chooses ATS India for Automation Engineering support at Arla Foods’ plant in the United Kingdom
Purpose
- Partner with Automation engineering service provider to optimize project cost
- Leverage automation experience across end-to-end dairy processes like pasteurizing, Separation, Homogenization, etc.
- Plant equipment & process details- 12 tanker bays, 16 raw milk silos (300,000 litres each), 4 milk, 3 cream and 2 craven dale pasteurizers, 17 finish milk silos, 10 cream storage and 5 interface tanks
Project Scope
- PLC application and SCADA screen development
- Simulation, Fat and Dry testing for the system
- Pre-commissioning, wet commissioning and process commissioning support
- 24/7 support for automation
Solution Approach
- Project executed from offsite (design, development, 24/7) and onsite location (commissioning)
- Integration with SAP and MES
- Extending 24/7 support for Industrial Automation across the plant (Westbury and Aylesbury)
Systems & Tools
- 22 of Siemens S7 PLC’S(S7 300/400)
- Server-Client Wonderware ArchestrA IDE SCADA
- Integration with SAP
The Results
Enabled customer to achieve timely completion of green flied plant to process and package approximately one billion litres of milk per year
Single-location monitoring and control of all process
Created mimic displays control screens for easy operator interfacing
