With multiple facilities producing milk, cheese, and cream-based products, the company needed a unified, real-time tracking system capable of managing complex process data, ensuring full traceability, and integrating cleanly with existing MES, historian, and ERP systems.
The goal was to monitor the equipment throughout the Cargill Feed Safety Research Center (FSRC) and within potentially contaminated areas.
They needed to create an automated system to collect data from across the entire dairy, including the milk supply, flash pasteurizer, tank farm, and CIP- station (cleaning) sections from four independent PLCs.
They needed to modernize their SCADA system by replacing the legacy Opto 22 and Wonderware system to provide Operator Interface, Data Collection, and management of Alarms for refrigeration control system.
