Food & Beverage

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 [...]

Purpose Maintenance & Support for LIMS & Specification Management Project Scope Maintaining and improving Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) Unilab Maintaining and improving Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) Interspec Maintaining and improving Business Object Maintaining and improving Microsoft Biztalk Solution Approach Corrective and preventative maintenance supported by modifications According ITIL The Results A [...]

ATS Australia has been awarded a large contract for the supply of PLC and SCADA control software for the automation of an oilseed preparation plant in Numurkah, Australia.This is a repeat order from this customer as ATS Australia has previously successfully completed the following orders: Functional specifications for a deodorisation and blending plant Automation software [...]

ATS Australia has many years of experience with vegetable oil processing, from crude oil to blended and deodorised oil ready for pack out to downstream customers and for margarine manufacture. Some examples are: Control systems FDS for the oilseed processing plant, solvent-based extraction plants and refineries. Automation implementations for vegetable oil refineries, deodorisers, blending, receiving [...]

A large Dutch slaughterhouse has been using ATS MeatIT in their MES/MOM environment for decades. Every piece of meat is tracked and linked with the parent ERP system. The software on the work floor has been adapted to the production process and is easy to operate by hand via a touchscreen.Recently an issue was reported. [...]

A beverage manufacturer sought to upgrade their Allen-Bradley SLC500 DH+ installation to ethernet to provide benefits such increased network bandwidth, reliability and ability to readily integrated with planned future new machinery. Further, a legacy RSView 32 SCADA installation was to be upgraded to CitectSCADA v7.2. This upgrade mainly provided the advantages of flexible & user [...]

From the start ATS has been a key member of the team implementing Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) MES into all of the plants of this multinational soft drinks supplier. ATS has been rewarded this contract based on its long-term involvement and ability to make this project successful.As part of the initial project, that started [...]

Carlsberg’s catchphrase, 'Probably the world’s best beer', is a famous, modest, tongue-in-cheek understatement from this Danish beer company. Can we say the same about its manufacturing execution system (MES) implementation? Will it probably be the world’s best MES?In this article I want to tell you about the good, bad and ugly of an MES implementation. I [...]

A pilot project for a company producing animal food since 1987 in all leading pet food categories. Expertise in the field of wet food in recent years expanded to include dry food, snacks and cakes.ATS implemented a quality control system on the filling machines. The filling machine fills aluminium trays with wet food, and an [...]

ATS delivers a Opcenter Execution ( Discrete or Process) MES system to a large Company in the Netherlands that produces Coffee, Cocoa Cappuccino, Milk/Whiteners, Teas and a varied range of hot and cold drinks. Partners included, this company has over 225,000 vending machines and 4,000 employees, a real Leader in many Western European countries.The coffee [...]