Food & Beverages

Streat Automation have been providing engineering services for a number of New Zealand’s biggest Food & Beverages manufacturers:

Sanitarium Health Food Company: Flake biscuit (Weet-Bix) and Marmite, make and cook lines. Originally using F&P PSC but later upgraded to Rockwell ControlLogix PLC’s. There are two Citect HMI terminals with RSSQL linking the PLC’s to a SQL database to provide batch and report information. Production scheduling is provided by a custom VB application.

Cadbury Dunedin: Pack100 Wrapper Automation Upgrade. Complete re-design and upgrade of the PLC and servo controls and mechanics for this high speed-wrapping machine. The system uses a Rockwell ControlLogix PLC with 8 axis SERCOS servo control (over fibre) and Ultra 3000 servo drives and motors.

All ‘mini’ Cadbury bars produced in Dunedin are wrapped on this machine.

Cadbury Dunedin: Third floor conveyor automation for Cadbury bar line, using RSView32 on panel PC with Powerflex 70 variable frequency drives on DeviceNet.

Cadbury Dunedin: Crumb plant automation upgrade of existing plant and addition of second reactor.

Tegel Foods: Energy management intelligent load shedding system designed to minimise peak electricity loads.

Canterbury Brewery: Brew tank CIP system using a Modicon Compact PLC with a Magelis Operator Display.

ENZAFOODS Nelson: Juice Plant automation upgrade with ControlLogix PLC, FlexIO and Intouch HMI.