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Automated Dairy

Dairy Production and Processing Automation and Control Systems
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Food & Beverage
      • Dairy
      • Bakery
      • Beverage
      • Brewery
      • Prepared Foods
      • Protein Processing
    • Dairy
    • Bakery
    • Beverage
    • Brewery
    • Prepared Foods
    • Protein Processing
      • Energy Management
      • Food Packaging
      • Food Safety
      • Operational Excellence
    • Energy Management
    • Food Packaging
    • Food Safety
    • Operational Excellence
      • Agility and Analytics
      • Batch Performance Analytics
      • Perfect Fill
    • Agility and Analytics
    • Batch Performance Analytics
    • Perfect Fill
  • Sustainability
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A holistic approach to dairy production can increase flexibility and efficiency and reduce total costs of operation. Automated dairy systems can help you deliver a diverse mix of consistently high-quality, safely produced products.


Increase Throughput, Reduce Energy Use

Real-time Control and Dairy Process Optimization Reduces Costs

Many dairy manufacturers are enhancing competitiveness by moving toward higher value specialty products such as low-fat, no-fat, and protein enhanced. They also want to achieve greater efficiency, increase throughput, and reduce costs.

Dairy plant operations are required to perform within narrower, more consistent product specifications. These specifications require real-time plant floor data to enable faster reactions and greater flexibility. This data helps you to maintain productivity and margin, achieve higher safety, and offer greater product quality.

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Our model predictive control technology helps reduce process variability and inefficiency and improve product consistency.

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Reduce Costs and Increase Production

Dairy Dryer Model Predictive Control Application
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Dairy Dryer Model Predictive Control Application

By providing close control of the dryer for optimization and performance, this dairy control application increases throughput, reduces energy use, and reduces off-spec product.

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Advanced Control for Dairy Applications

Dryers and evaporators are the most energy intensive units used in the dairy processing industries. Optimal operation is essential to reduce costs and help meet final product quality specifications.

By providing close control of the dryer for optimization and performance, this dairy control application:

  • Increases throughput up to 8%
  • Reduces energy use up to 12%
  • Reduces off-spec product up to 75%

Dairy Automation Systems

Integrated Control and Information for Higher Productivity

The tight integration of control and information across dairy production enables our customers to optimize their operations. Our solutions enable dairy producers to leverage real–time production data for improved decision-making and supports:

  • Faster time to market
  • Minimized downtime
  • Lower total cost of ownership

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Repeatable Solution by LifecycleIQ Services

The liquid milk plant process control system by Rockwell Automation uses a solution based on the PlantPAx® platform, including a high-performance human-machine interface (HMI).

It includes pre-engineered functionality for automating the processing of liquid milk and derivative products, enabling efficient and quality production to take place. 

The pre-engineered solution automates key areas of dairy processing such as fresh milk reception, raw milk storage, pasteurization, CIP, filling lines and fermented products (e.g. curd, cheese, etc.) with multi-site installation experience including at the largest dairy producer in the world.

Liquid Milk Plant Process Control System powered by PlantPAx®
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Liquid Milk Plant Process Control System powered by PlantPAx®

Liquid Milk Plant Process Control System - Lifecycle Services is a document describing needs of Industry for process control system solutions. It also described what are the challenges customers face and how can our Rockwell solutions solve them , what is the value proposition of Rockwell solution.

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