Design Notes

Figure 3: The new automation system makes extensive use of an AutomationDirect C-more HMI so operators can visualize the equipment status, receive warning indications, and perform necessary automatic, manual, and sanitation functions.

for proper cleaning and keeping them on schedule. Also, they don’t need to remember to stop the equipment, saving energy.

The Pacific Cheese team had to tackle the learning curve of designing and programming their own systems. However, the accessible and easyto-use PLC and HMI products and associated support resources have made this possible. Now they control their own destiny regarding legacy automation upgrades, and their inhouse programming capability lets them improve operations in dozens of ways based on what their team and operators know, learn, and need. DW

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Pyramid Engineering specializes in the final sealing of electronics packages. It o ers its client expertise in combining the best hardware components with control and automation to sharpen up processes and deal with high throughputs when accuracy and time mean money.