Automation of Manual Plant & Process
Hysysco are specialists in automation and control in the food processing industry. We take a manual process and automate it.
Take batch cooking; Your operator fills a cooking pan by hand, lifting heavy buckets of ingredients or climbing up steps carrying bags, turns on a mixer, adjusts the mixer speed, goes up and down the steps to add more ingredients (if he remembers), sets the temperature manually and turns on the heating, turns it off after a set time (or a bit later on when he’s got time), blends the contents for “some” time and then opens a valve at the bottom to feed the filler. How many times have you had to throw the whole batch away because someone added too much of one ingredient, or because it was cooked for too long, or over-blended it? By automating that process, not only do you reduce your costs by removing the potential for human error, you reduce your costs by freeing up your operators time to multi-task. Plus you make the process safer and better for the health of the operator.
Automation of manual food processes
By working with you to automate your process, we reduce your labour costs, we reduce your waste costs, we reduce your ingredient costs, we increase your confidence in the repeatability and quality of your products and we increase your customers’ confidence in your company.
Talk to Hysysco about automating your food manufacturing processes today.
Food process expertise
Hysysco specialise in the food industry, and in particular the liquid food and beverage processing industries. We automate those processes we understand. Consequently, automation and control of most food processes is a relatively straightforward exercise. We do the hard work so you don’t have to.
Automate Cleaning In Place (CIP)
Fed up of cleaning process tanks and vessels by hand? Hysysco can automate the entire Cleaning In Place process and remove the need for manual intervention. Taking the drudgery out of hosing out your equipment.
Automate recipe control
You know your recipes, but do the operators always follow them? Do you find that occasionally someone cuts a corner and undercooks your best jalfrezi sauce? Remove that temptation by automating recipe control with Hysysco.
Don’t break the law!
Continuous pasteurisation of milk requires the time and temperature combination to be strictly controlled. Do you know you’re compliant 100% of the time? Guarantee that process by letting Hysysco automate your pasteuriser – including sterilization if you want.
Control, monitoring and recording.
Automation isn’t just about replacing manual tasks with automatically controlled tasks. It’s also about checking that those tasks are carried out correctly and recording that information. Don’t just take someone’s word that that filler was cleaned properly, Hysysco automation can help you check the facts and record the events so you’ve got the historical information to prove you did what you did, and when you did it.
The benefits of automation
Reduce cost of processing
- Free up operator time to focus on other tasks
- Reduce cost of recipe or processing errors
- Reduce cost of waste
Reduce risk to customers
- Same recipe, every time
- No unexpected ingredients – Goodbye to allergens by mistake!
- Data logging – Proof you did what you did and when you did it.
Increase output
- Speed up processing
- Reduce downtime waiting for operators to come back from their break
- Reduce downtime with automated Cleaning In Place (CIP)
From kitchen to global shelves: scaling Nutmeg & Hive’s yoghurt production
Nutmeg and Hive manufacture the best yoghurt in the World.
We helped Steven and his team to go from table-top production of their 100% natural range of yoghurts to full commercial production for a range of International markets.
Nutmeg & Hive had the product, Hysysco helped them produce it to unrivalled levels of quality and consistency, providing process design, procurement, installation, commissioning and on-going maintenance support for their growing business.
Automation FAQ’s
Is automation expensive?
Whilst automation of process plant usually requires a significant up-front financial investment, the paybacks in reduced operating and waste can make the payback period very short.
How do I go about automating my plant?
In the first instance, you call Hysysco and we have a discussion about what you do now and want you want to accomplish by automation. We design the automated solution, give you a cost to implement, you give us the go ahead and we do the rest.
Will automating plant require down time?
Usually there will be some down time, but we work with you to plan your production around the shortest possible down time.
What software do you use?
Our standard is Rockwell Allen-Bradley, but we can work with Siemens if required.
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