John Thompson & Sons, UK - Animal Feed Plant Case Study

Products: AutoPilot4Feed, MasterWeigh and Plan4Feed

AutoPilot4Feed - Animal feed mill process control system

Animal feed mill control system

AutoPilot4Feed is a process control system designed specifically for all production areas of animal feed mills, pet food plants, biomass plants and premix plants. This includes the intake of raw materials, blending and mixing of batches, press / extruder control and bulk outloading / packing.

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AutoPilot4Flour - Flour mill control system

Flour mill control system

AutoPilot4Flour is a complete control system designed specifically for flour mills. Due to its scalability it makes an attractive and economical solution for the automatic control of a flour mill. Its advanced design ensures a reliable, accurate and cost effective solution that is flexible and future proof.

Warehouse Stock Tracking

Stock tracking system using tablet PCs in fork lift trucks

DSL's Warehouse Stock Tracking System is for companies who produce or store big and small bags of product. It is designed to track product in one or more warehouses to make it easy to find, count and record bags. It makes it simple and fast to find bags and to know the up-to-date stock at all times. It prevents mistakes by ensuring only the correct stock is shipped and highlights short loads, QC quarantined stock and missing stock.

The system uses bar-coded tickets to identify bags. Rugged tablet PCs are mounted on each Fork Lift Truck and connect to the server via an intelligent wireless network.

The system is very simple to operate yet provides all the facilities which operators and managers find so valuable.

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MasterWeigh

Manual weighing system

Masterweigh is designed for the supervision and control of all types of manually weighed ingredients. It ensures weighing accuracy, is simple and easy to use and all operations are logged. Masterweigh has a universal design with many options that allow it to be used in a diverse range of industries such as chemicals, plastics, drugs and animal feeds.

Plan4Feed - Animal feed production scheduling system

Animal feed production scheduling system

Plan4Feed is designed to simplify the process of scheduling orders for production by graphically displaying the production programme and highlighting any problems. Plan4Feed makes scheduling and planning simple and quick, prevents scheduling mistakes, warns of orders which are going to be late and minimises flush batches and die changes.

PowerMonitor4Feed - Energy monitoring for animal feed mills

Energy monitoring for animal feed mills

PowerMonitor4Feed is a complete power monitoring and costing
system.  It allows you to monitor, analyse and report on all your site's power
including electricity, steam, gas and oil. PowerMonitor4Feed
logs what you have used and when. 

Hand Held PDA

Mobile control for feed and flour mills

DSL's Hand-Held PDA Terminal provides a method of controlling the plant remotely
using a Hand-Held Pocket PC device. It integrates seamlessly into DSL's
AutoPilot4Feed control system, allowing the operators to monitor and make
changes to several key areas from anywhere around the plant.

Moisture measurement and control

DSL's moisutre meter provides the means of accurately
controlling the moisture content within a batch flow process
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Continuous monitoring of water content allows an automatic dosing of precise
amount of water needed so that the product can stay within the fixed target
level.

AssetMaster

Maintenance tracking and scheduling software

AssetMaster is an integrated maitnenace package to allow you to
keep control of your assets. It will record all equipment details, log running
hours, starts and failures, record maintenance history and plan maintenance
schedules.

Bagging Controller

DSL's Bagging Controller is easy to use and runs on standard off-the-shelf
hardware.

  • Flexible and versatile
  • Easy to use
  • Runs on a standard Allen Bradley PLC
  • User configurable

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