Europe food produces business to begin favour automation and control system

Instruction of European Union 178/2002 is at the beginning of 2005 become effective, its strict guidelines asks all food that be made in Europe and sell are safety and complete but retroactive (arrive from the farm mensal) . Accordingly, food company should be had but date from ability, come the raw material that appraisal uses and production and cent sell the product in the process. The instruction still asks food company has product return system, preserve the origin record of their raw material.

Westlund says, to reliable but the demand of system of date from sex stimulated the investment that produces process and computer to control a product to go up in automation. He says: Although “ is most manufacturing plant has upgraded achieved these requirements, but this still can stimulate SCADA and DCS to be in especially European Union fresh blood national growth, the food of these countries machines an enterprise to expect to be able to follow European Union standard, will export their product the European Union other country. ”

The trend of these deploy automation technologies created the market with an intense competition for SCADA and DCS. The competition between supplier of “ food equipment is very intense also, food client more apt makes choice device according to the supplier with the mechanical perhaps brand of the machine, is not what he need to control a system, ”Westlund says: “ besides already inside buy besides the food machinery of PLCs. ”

The cause that another helps SCADA and DCS system suffer European grocer to favor is, they helped an enterprise improve the efficiency when new product is developed.

The development of DCS has controlled progress to be like product management, safe tool to system, information manages and be arranged to wider application from traditional procedure, these all are finished inside an unitary system. And the development of SCADA had had improved IT compatibility, if the business system that can support higher level makes executive system (MES) plan a system with company natural resources (ERP) .

Westlund says: The SCADA system with new “ provides as associated as DCS product function ceaselessly, be like inside buy is redundant. ” if systematic attaint, this kind of system can turn lead plane automatically receive an auxiliary computer to go up, accordingly, when the server breaks down, can offer data to give a client likewise.