Integrator

This recipe management system consisted of two Ignition projects. The first project provided recipe management functionality for supervisors and administrators. The second project provided HMI/SCADA functionality for operators including the ability to select, review, and download recipes. The system consists of approximately 200 recipes. The recipes consist of approximately 20 items. Seven different pieces of equipment are included in the scope of the project. This project replaced an obsolete system providing similar functionality and the 200 recipes were initially created using scripting functions that parsed data from the obsolete system.

The purpose of this project is to provide insight into the client’s manufacturing operation in the food/beverage industry. The client had recently made a very large investment to migrate a significant part of the plant’s mostly manual process to an automated process. Although the investment in automation provided significant improvements, the client still felt like further production efficiency improvements could be made. The client decided to implement an OEE Downtime system to help identify the best opportunities for improvement in the process.

The site for this project consists of a single production line containing 5 different sample collection locations and a lab. The purpose of this project was to replace a legacy SPC system that consisted of a historian and a complex Excel front-end that performed calculations and presented data in various control charts, trend charts, and table formats. The existing system architecture had no connectivity between sites and data retrieval performance was poor. The new system uses Sepasoft’s SPC module including MES enterprise functionality to allow for management of MES resources from a central cloud-hosted corporate server and to allow for synchronization of SPC data between the site server and the central server enabling site-to-site comparisons of process quality characteristics.