AGT Foods Australia, a division of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. (TSX:AGT), is headquartered in Toowoomba and operates state-of-the-art production facilities around the country. These facilities feature cleaning, sizing, splitting, colour
sorting and packaging capabilities for lentils, chickpeas, yellow peas, faba beans, broad beans and specialty crops.

In 2010, to support their growing operations, AGT Foods embarked on a project to establish a new $6 million grain handling and processing facility in
Bowmans, 125km from Adelaide in South Australia’s mid-north.

SAGE Automation were engaged to carry out the design and implementation of the power distribution and control system for the external grain handling plant.

Since then, SAGE have been heavily involved in the project, performing electrical, automation and control system works onsite including the new processing
plant which had its first production runs in May 2012.

Project Scope

This project consisted of:

• 200 electric motors with associated control devices and hardware
• 1500A mains feed
• Hazardous areas inside the processing plant
• General plant safety
• Power distribution and lighting
• Multiple product paths

Capabilities Demonstrated

• Project and stakeholder management
• Safety Management
• Hazardous Areas Consultancy
• Plant layout and electrical CAD drafting
• Electrical Distribution System Design
• Control System design and Functional Description
• Plant wide PLC and HMI control system integration
• Mobile SCADA on IPhone/IPad

Project Highlights

• The project was delivered to a high standard within a tight timeframe.
• The solution provided a high level of operability via the automation systems.
• Control system interlocking helps to prevent product contamination issues.
• The mobile SCADA enables visibility of the plant status from anywhere whilst on the go.