Process temperature
A probe at the cooker, malaxer or pasteuriser discharge. That point is the critical control the shift already watches.
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Process lines, cold hold and packing, with the batch still in view.
The plant
Most food plants already generate the numbers. They live on a panel, a chart recorder, or a book the line supervisor keeps. Industrial IoT puts one process line, the tank that feeds it, and the cold hold — if the product needs one — on the same shift screen, and keeps the excursion with the batch.
Factory dashboards
Each plant type has its own view. Open one.
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Food processing
One process line, the tank that feeds it, and the cold hold if the product needs one.
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Beverage
Brewhouse heat, fermenter jacket, cellar cold and the filler. A blending-only site leaves the fermenters off.
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Meat & poultry
Hall temperature, the chill, and the dock door. A blast freezer is added only when the site freezes.
Where a first line usually starts
- A cook step leaves its band and the next person to know is the lab, after the lot has moved.
- Cold-hold doors are open for a reason nobody wrote down.
- Energy per run is the monthly bill divided by a guess.
The main drive
Clamp vibration and current on the motor that stops the line. A stop becomes a work order instead of a note.
Cold hold, only if it exists
Air temperature, humidity and a door contact. Left off for a dry-goods plant.
From the sensor to the action
- 01
Sense
Process temperature, tank level, drive vibration, line energy, and hold temperature and door where the product is chilled.
- 02
Connect
The gateway at the line polls Modbus and publishes engineering units. The firewall does not accept an inbound connection.
- 03
Platform
Readings stay with that factory. A simulator reading stays marked demo data until a gateway is commissioned.
- 04
Insight
Time outside the thermal band, drive stops, and kilowatt-hours against output for the run.
- 05
ERP action
An excursion is shaped into a quality note on the batch and a maintenance work order. The exchange is commissioned with the implementation.