With expansion into international markets and a subsequent demand to improve production at its Adelaide facility, Arnott’s required greater flexibility and speed of changeovers in their production lines. They wanted to be able to run any product in any line with ease. ‘Project Flex’ was their answer.
Part of the solution was in updating the outdated oven conveyor’s PLC hardware and HMI. An updated HMI system would improve the way operators could load new production orders, including a feature that allows different recipes to be stored, selected and produced on the same line.
A Recipe Management Page would enable each oven to store recipes with pre-programmed conveyor path, line speed set points and variables – thus allowing faster changeover and reduced margin for human error.
