Control system for the Southern Hemisphere's largest bakery.Overall plant control, and the supervisory control Supervisory control is a general term for control of many individual controllers or control loops, whether by a human or an automatic control system, although almost every real system is a combination of both. system (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. ) for four lines of plant at the new George Weston Foods George Weston Foods is one of the largest consumer products companies in Australia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods Plc. Its brands include Tip Top and Top Taste. Australian bakery are being designed and supplied by APV APV See: Adjusted Present Value Baker. GWF GWF Gay White Female GWF Gas Wall Furnace (real estate) GWF Goober with Firewall (used by network administrators for paranoid users with personal firewalls) GWF Global Warming Factor GWF Good Work Fella ordered APV Baker bread and roll making equipment following visits to recently installed plants where APV Baker's world leading unit machines have been integrated into sophisticated, high-efficiency systems. GWF also appreciated the benefits of a control system designed by an equipment manufacturer with in-depth knowledge of the process and product requirements specific to the industrial plant baking industry. The system specification includes nine industrial PCs and two tag servers for data exchange with SAP, covering four production lines--two bread, one roll and one muffin. The system monitors and controls equipment from several OEMs, and covers the full operation from ingredient feed/batching to basket handling. Features include recipe scheduling downloaded from SAP, product reporting, batch usage reporting, downtime reporting, video capture, swipe card swipe card n. A plastic card with a magnetic strip containing encoded data that is read by passing the card through a usually slotted electronic device, used especially to make electronic transactions and to provide access to restricted or secure areas. log in, batch tracking across all four lines, full instruction manuals as part of the integrated display, and electrical schematic diagrams embedded within the application. The plant is typically run on a ControlLogix platform handling both DeviceNet and ConmtrolNet where needed. The system provides data to SAP for reconciliation. APV Baker is supplying equipment for two bread-making lines and a bun and roll system for the $135m bakery and distribution centre at Chullora, in south-west Sydney. This will be the Southern Hemisphere's largest bakery, and will become the centre for GWF's New South Wales New South Wales, state (1991 pop. 5,164,549), 309,443 sq mi (801,457 sq km), SE Australia. It is bounded on the E by the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is the capital. The other principal urban centers are Newcastle, Wagga Wagga, Lismore, Wollongong, and Broken Hill. bread distribution system. It has been dubbed Project Phoenix, after the company's main bakery in Fairfield, Sydney was destroyed by tire over 18 months ago. Contact APV Baker on tel: 01733 283000 or visit: www.apvbaker.com |
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