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How cleaning process impacts productivity of your plant The automated process for cleaning pipes and tanks in the F&B industry, known as clean-in-place (CIP), is crucial to manufacture safe products. However, it can be time-consuming and an inexact process. To address this challenge, Endress+Hauser has developed a conductivity sensor that can monitor build-up to reduce the time spent on cleaning and ensure maximum safety in a highly regulated industry.
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O GUARANTEE THE production of high-quality products that are safe for consumption, a significant amount of time is spent on cleaning to ensure operations meet the hygienic standards defined. To avoid the risk of contamination, many production processes in the food sector take place in closed systems, and this is where CIP is used. In many cases, the duration of the cleaning is determined by evaluating past data rather than looking at what is currently happening in the process, typically in most plants this is based on a set time interval. MINIMISING CLEANING TIME The Endress+Hauser Liquitrend QMW43 minimises the unproductive time of CIP without risking product safety or breaching
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regulations. The Liquitrend reliably and continuously measures the thickness of product build-up when it occurs in tanks and pipes. The additional conductivity measurement also provides information about the cause of the build-up, i.e., whether it is caused by product residue or cleaning agents. By connecting the device to the control system, the measurement data is available in real time and is automatically documented. If the sensor shows no more build-up, it can be concluded that the critical points have been successfully cleaned. These insights into the process mean that cleaning time can be kept to a minimum and production increased without the concern for poor product quality.
Food Manufacturing Africa | 2021 Quarter 3
WHO ARE ENDRESS+HAUSER Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, solutions and services for industrial process engineering with offices in South Africa, where South Africa and sub-equatorial Africa, including Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are supported and serviced. By choosing this company as a partner, customers opt for longterm reliability and a solution provider that has the ability to deliver both instruments and services for a complete solution.
