Assisting cheddar production.Somerset cheese maker, AJ and RG Barber, are using CitectSCADA to provide monitoring, trending and data reporting in the production of its renowned West Country Farmhouse Cheddar. The Citect package is helping to ensure quality in the production of the Cheddar, and providing a means for the archiving data as a back up to the chart recorders used as part of the British Retail Consortium's requirements for access to production data concerning processed foods. Jay Hemsley, engineering manager at AJ and RG Barber, said: "We mix the best of the old, in terms of natural mixed cheese cultures that produce cheddar with real complexity and depth of flavour (jargon) flavour - (US: flavor) 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors." "These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones." See vanilla. 2. The attribute that causes something to be flavourful. , with the best of the new: the most sophisticated automation to underpin our traditional manufacturing methods and ensure the continuous quality of our production." He added: "CitectSCADA is an excellent, easy-to-use package that is just right for our purposes. We have used its inherent scalability to develop just what we need over time, and now we benefit from the highest levels of control, monitoring and reporting: it develops as we do: we really cannot fault it." The CitectSCADA system used at Barber's cheese making facility oversees 25 PLCs that provide primary control at the plant. The Citect SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) A process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control. is a 500-tag system with three licences, and 90 screens; 60 of which are operative at any one time. The system is also configured with two servers, providing crucial redundancy to safeguard the complex cheese making process, and the archive of production data. At present, the CitectSCADA package at AJ and RG Barbers provides 644 pages of trending data relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc activities such as milk and whey whey liquid residue from milk after the removal of cheese curds in the manufacture of cheese. An excellent protein supplement but difficult to handle in the liquid form, except to pigs maintained close to the cheese factory. Dried whey is easy to handle but processing costs are high. pasteurisation and filtration. All the trends have a two-year life, and are totally transparent to operators across all operator screens, via comprehensive dynamic mimic displays. In addition, mimics also provide full transparency for monitoring across equipment, including CIP (1) (Common Isochronous Packet) The packet format used in time-based (real time) FireWire transmission. See FireWire, IEC 61883 and mLAN. (2) (Common Industrial P systems; bulk starter vessels, curd curd the proteinaceous part of milk precipitated by rennin. Usually contains some fat when whole milk is used. pumps and vats; and activities such as cheese pressing and cycle times. The SCADA also enables Barber's to print out data reports in respect of items such as Silo silo, watertight and airtight structure for making and storing silage. Silos vary in form from a covered pit, such as was used by the early Romans, to the modern storage tower, dating from the 19th cent. stock closing levels and Bulk Starter vessel status. Contact Citect on tel 01675 466 658 or visit www.citect.com |
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