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Focus Food processing & packaging
The right recipe
Tray sealer helps speed production line completion
for jam making
Problem: When RF Brookes order to maintain constant ten-
expanded its range of chilled sion and avoid film snapping.
Problem: F. Duerr & Sons required a ready meals, new production Proseal’s Auto-Tool allows tool
system that fully met all operating lines incorporating tray-sealing changes to be carried out in
requirements at its jam cooking plant – and tooling, had to be built from around two minutes, while the
to provide enhanced recipe manage- scratch within a very short time- GT1’s Touch Screen Control user
ment as well as control of all opera- frame. interface optimises fast, intuitive
tions from cooking through to the jar Solution: Proseal supplied its retrieval of all recipe settings
filling lines. latest automatic tray sealer, the from the database. The touch
Solution: A new system was installed GT1. Specifically developed for screen can be viewed and con-
comprising a Siemens S7 PLC, two I/O demanding food production film feed system controls the trolled remotely and provides
racks and integrated safety systems. environments, the GT1’s servo- sealing operation for improved detailed production data and
Denca Controls wrote and verified all driven infeed conveyor and accu- seal quality, with easy film monitoring, and full diagnostics.
necessary software, completed panel rate tray positioning system threading and dynamic control of Proseal
builds, installed all cabling and pneu- enables high throughput speeds the movement of the film T: 01625 856600 Enter 242
matics, considered all aspects of to be maintained. An intelligent throughout the film feed cycle in www.prosealuk.com
sequencing and fully function-tested
the new system. To minimise any
impact on production all work was
Sowing the seeds of easier bag handling
completed during a scheduled plant Problem: Grain and seed merchant MSP with ‘easier bag handling
shutdown for which stock levels were McCreath Simpson & Prentice and better plant logistics’.
built up. (MSP) supplies grain to over 2000 A Chronos Richardson bulk
Duerr now enjoys much improved farms in Northern England and weigher and weighing control
recipe control, enhanced recipe capa- Southern Scotland. An upgrade at system is used to discharge multi-
bility, real-time reporting and analysis its plant in Berwick upon Tweed ple high capacity weighments of
as well as total product traceability involved a reconfiguration of the treated seeds into single loop
throughout all cooking and filling filling area, and the installation of FIBCs. The system also incorpo-
stages. bulk intake silos. A high speed rates a bag inflation system and
Denca Controls weigh-filling system was required indexing takeaway conveyor.
T: 0151 257 9010 Enter 243 as part of the upgrade. Chronos Richardson
www.denca.com Solution: A Chronos Richardson T: 0115 935 1351 Enter 244
FIBC filling system has provided www.chronosrichardson.com
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