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A recipe handling system for a big player in the animal food market

For a producer of animal food, a recipe handling system was created.

The system receives order and recipe information, based on that information weighing scales and mixers are provided with the correct ingredients and weights.

A few details

THE PROJECT

A factory for animal food in the eastern part of the Netherlands had problems with quality of the product they produce. The current software that they use in the production is deprecated and could not be useed anymore to garanty a realible production flow. The factory produces cattle food for e.g. cows, sheep, pigs, horses, etc.

All raw material is stored in silos, raw material is delivered by trucks. These deliveries are registered to comply with ISO 9002, chapter R10-01.

Depending a recipe an end product is created, to create this product the raw materials are weighed on scales, transported to mixers and finally stored in a finished good silo.

The systems contains hundred of recipes to produce al kind of products, every recipe can be adjusted on details per product.

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SPECIFICATIONS

A special administrative system for feed production uploads order, product and recipe information to the order and recipe handling system. An operator selects on the front-end the order that must be produced. The recipe handling system determines the amount of charges that must be produced for that order. After a charge is started, all recipe information is send to the scales. These scales controles the valves that are connected to the raw material silos. Each scale controles approx. 10 silo valves. The raw materials are added in a certain sequence, depending the type of raw material course, fine or liquid. After all raw material is balanced, the ingredients are transported to an extruder. The extruder, controlled by a PLC, mix the raw matrials and finally produce the end product. The end product is transported to a finished goods silo, were it is stored for later delivery.

How we solved it

OUR APPROACH

The front-end of the recipe handling system is created as a web applications, the advantage is that the application can run on several deives, PC’s and tablers.

The system registers the supply of the raw materials, for the truck drivers a special interface is created where the type and amount of raw material can be enterd. This information is used to generate the R10-01 report and to determine from which silo the raw material should be taken out. Further more in this way the amount of raw material can be managed.

The systeem contains several overviews, like prodcuts, recipes and contact information for e.g. carriers and suppliers. Information that cannot be modified in the recipe handling system, however is continuosly updated by the administrative system. This information is used to complete the reports with raw material supply (R0-01) and charges report. These reports can be used to prove the quality of the end product.

People involved

700

Working hours

200.000

daily mouse clicks

600

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A recipe handling system for a big player in the animal food market

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