Advanced process control for optimising Animal Feed, Pet Food, Premix, Biomass and Flour manufacture
DSL Systems Ltd supply advanced process control systems specifically for the animal feed, premix plant, pet food, biomass and flour manufacturers. DSL’s AutoPilot4Feed and AutoPilot4Flour have been developed over many years and have installations all over the world (see www.comco-controls.com for North America coverage). AutoPilot4Feed and AutoPilot4Flour are available to both end users and system integrators.
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These control systems are fully configurable packages. The software runs on standard PCs with Microsoft Windows 7 or Server (for bigger installations). It readily connects to most common PLC and IO systems including Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Telemechanique, GEM, Wago and Pamux Opto 22.
Redundancy is built in by utilising a second standby PC. Support is available 24/7 via telephone, modem and internet.
AutoPilot4Feed can be configured to control all areas of a typical mill including the intake of raw materials, blending and mixing of batches, press control and bulk outloading. It has lots of features built in to help optimise the process and allow unmanned operation where possible. The system is fully scalable and can be configured for the smallest to the largest of plants. It may be used to control one area of a plant initially and then extended as circumstances permit. Extensive management information is provided and is accessed using on line viewing programs or printable reports which may be customized using the Crystal Reports package. All data is stored in an open SQL Server database.
AutoPilot4Feed has additional options to help further improve the efficiency of a plant including full traceability, bar-coding, order scheduling, moisture measurement, manual weighing, maintenance scheduling, email, power monitoring, driver operated modes, office integration, bagging and Pocket PC facilities.
Derivatives of the AutoPilot4Feed software have been sucessfully used in other industries including powder coating, recycling, tank farms and plasterboard plants.
Here's what our customer's think.
“We have been non-other than impressed with AutoPilot4Feed. Changing control of the presses to AutoPilot4Feed has increased throughput by 15% over the previous control system!” Graham Porter – Managing Director, J.E. Porter & Sons
"We were amazed that all upgrades went as planned with virtually no hiccups. DSL’s team are extremely helpful, knowledgeable and experienced and they have developed an excellent relationship with all our staff. Since installing our first DSL system, we have seen steady improvement in outputs of up to 30% and in general a significant cost reduction through head count savings of 50%. I am confident that no other control systems are as effective as a DSL installation” Andy Vincent - Engineering Manager, BOCM PAULS
“Robust, adaptable, user friendly and well supported; in this respect DSL set the standard. In my opinion, DSL should be the control system of preference for any feed mill.” Stuart Rowney – Feedmill General Manager, Sun Valley
“The guys at DSL are very experienced, and combined with a high level of practical knowledge gained in other mills, they are able to quickly resolve issues. DSL exceeded our expectations in the level of integration provided, allowed us to analyse the plants bottlenecks and make further changes to greatly improve the plant performance” Aidan Mitchell - Operations Director, John Thompson & Sons
“Changing to DSL’s AutoPilot4Feed was the best thing we ever did” Tom Rylands - Managing Director, M.E. Waterhouse
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