The Food and Beverage Industry is a vast and complex one and the Mitsubishi Adroit Process Suite (MAPS) SCADA is ideally suited to assist in the efficient monitoring and control of even the most complicated production plants.
Adroit Technologies has built a strong understanding of these needs and their reputation for quality, reliability and innovation supports their customers. Their solutions, consisting of key technologies, not only realises a total process control solution, but also manages different processes on an industrial scale to ensure a superior product.
The MAPS architecture and openness offers food and beverage companies a unique capability of not only traditional SCADA/HMI functionality, but the ability to integrate all aspects of their operations. By adopting a more holistic approach to operations management, significant savings and operational efficiencies can be realised. The time tested and proven reliability of the product sees MAPS being used by large food and beverage companies to safely run their valuable and strategic assets.
The rigid and quality-driven nature of the food and beverage industry benefits widely with accurate control of various process variables, flexibility and cost reduction through recipe and data management. MAPS communication to the databases for recipe handling is extremely powerful and easy.
Capabilities and benefits:
- Single point of configuration, deployment and management
- Process visualisation, events and alarming management
- Standards approach to projects
- Historical data logging and trending
- Process improvement
- Reporting and analysis
- Integration into business application
The result is an integrated life-cycle management solution for the food and beverage industry. Unlike traditional SCADA programmes, MAPS delivers a tightly integrated SCADA and PLC solution built around preconfigured and tested engineering libraries with a built-in full suite of diagnostics and maintenance tools and integrated document management capabilities.
MAPS can significantly reduce life-cycle engineering efforts and costs, offering savings of up to 50%, adding value throughout all the phases of the automation system project, from process design to commissioning, start-up and acceptance testing.
A range of key technologies offered by the Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation product suite realises a total process control solution as well as manages the different processes on an industrial scale, ensuring overall product and quality improvement through plant visualisation.
The iQ-R series is particularly well-suited for use in the food and beverage industry, and easily integrates with other automation products, such as the GOT2000 Series HMI and MR-J4 series amplifiers through pre-created templates and function blocks. It permits users to combine machines or production-line control in one rack. The system can have up to 4 CPUs per rack for various combinations of motion, sequence or process control.
The high production volumes that are typical of the food and beverage industry demand solutions that guarantee speed and precision. These powerful new motion controllers, MELSERVO J5, guarantee excellent performance and cycle times of 31.25 μs. The ready-to- use Motion Library software solutions are specific to the world of packaging.
Robots are becoming increasingly common in the world of food production. Product customisation is a particularly important aspect of modern food packaging as it gives producers a competitive advantage. It depends, however, on the flexibility of production.
Today, thanks to artificial intelligence-based algorithms and innovations in robotics permit the development of dynamic systems that can adapt to changing production needs.
Mitsubishi Electric’s MELFA Robots offer a high level of flexibility. They come in a complete range of models, structured for different levels of collaboration, and enable their partners to develop custom solutions that overcome the traditional dichotomy between industrial robots and cobots.
Achieve greater efficiency in areas such as:
- High-accuracy process control to maintain temperatures, humidity, and pressure
- Reduce equipment set-up changeover time
- Improve contamination measures and food traceability (product tracking, raw material retroactivity)
- Perform multifaceted inspections.
e-F@ctory contributes to the safe and secure production of food and beverages through versatile visualisation and inspection systems.
