Case History | Winlog SCADA Applications in the Field

Wine Production Plant Design with SCADA Automation and Process Control

Sielco Sistemi, in partnership with Save Impianti, offers complete expertise in the design, automation and development of industrial plants for wine production, providing advanced technological solutions capable of guaranteeing the highest standards of quality, traceability and production efficiency. Thanks to decades of experience in industrial automation and process control, the two companies act as a reliable partner for wineries seeking to modernize production facilities and comply with increasingly demanding quality regulations.

SCADA supervisory control of an automatic installation for carburizing, tempering and hardening heat treatments

Sielco Sistemi developed a comprehensive SCADA supervisory control system for an automatic installation dedicated to heat treating processes, specifically carburizing, tempering and hardening. Based on the Winlog Pro SCADA HMI platform and integrated with an MQTT/Modbus IoT Gateway, the system manages a continuous treatment line in which batches of metallic components undergo precisely controlled thermal cycles. The SCADA application communicates with a PLC network based on Siemens SIMATIC S7 through an Applicom server, ensuring reliable and real-time data exchange across all treatment stations.

SCADA for gas barrier film extrusion coating lines: supervision, recipes and quality reporting

Producing high-performance gas barrier films demands a multi-stage line that combines cast film technology with extrusion coating technology, a pairing that raises line output while delivering optimum product quality: no "curl" effect, excellent film transparency, precise gauge control and a high rate of edge trim reintegration back into the line. Coordinating this kind of plant — extruders, chill rolls, coating stations, winders and trim systems working in sequence — is only practical with a supervisory layer that gives operators one coherent view of the whole process. Winlog Evo is a reference example of a SCADA/HMI platform built to take on exactly this role, from control room templates down to end-of-batch quality certificates.

SCADA for brick and ceramics kilns: supervision and control of continuous and intermittent firing

Sielco Sistemi has developed a family of applications for the supervision and control of brick and ceramics kilns, built to bring firing lines that once relied on separate gauges, chart recorders and manual logbooks under a single, coherent view. These systems let plant staff control key process variables — temperature, pressure, dilution and more — and analyse them on time-related trend charts, while repeatability and production quality are ensured through structured production recipe management and automatic batch reports. Winlog Evo is the SCADA/HMI platform behind this family of kiln applications, deployable on a single firing line or scaled across an entire ceramics or brick manufacturing plant, from a small artisan works to a multi-kiln industrial site running around the clock.

SCADA Quality Control for Ice Cream and Dairy By-Product Manufacturing

In order to guarantee the hygiene and the safety of food products, new rules for consumer safeguard have been introduced across the food industry, both established by international control organizations and autonomously decided by manufacturers seeking to differentiate themselves through superior quality assurance. These regulations increasingly require objective, documented evidence that every stage of a manufacturing process has been carried out under controlled and traceable conditions, in line with internationally recognized frameworks such as HACCP. The SCADA system presented here has been developed by Sielco Sistemi for a company that produces ice cream and other by-products of milk, with the goal of controlling and certifying the entire production process while drastically reducing the possibility of human error. Built on the Winlog Evo SCADA platform, the system guarantees the quality of the pasteurization process, provides systematic control over the working status of the mixtures contained in the ripening tanks, and ensures the effectiveness of tank cleaning and sterilization — three of the most critical control points in dairy-based food manufacturing.

Quality Control and Process Supervision for the Food Industry

The production and storage processes within the food industry are subject to strict and constantly evolving regulations that define precise requirements for hygiene, traceability, and quality control. Meeting these requirements while keeping operating costs under control is one of the most demanding challenges facing food manufacturers today, particularly because quality control systems often require substantial capital investment and, if poorly implemented, can generate costly production downtime. The quality control system based on the Winlog Evo SCADA platform, developed by Sielco Sistemi, has been successfully applied across numerous sectors of the food industry, including dairy processing, beverage bottling, meat and poultry processing, bakery production, and packaged food manufacturing. By unifying data acquisition, process supervision, and reporting in a single SCADA software environment, the platform gives manufacturers the ability to comply with demanding quality control criteria while limiting both the installation investment cost and the production losses that are typically associated with deploying a new supervisory system on an active line.

SCADA supervisory system for polypropylene yarn manufacturing: colour consistency, recipe management and quality reporting

Due to the sophisticated manufacturing process required by polypropylene yarns, technology has a decisive weight; the supervisory control of the whole manufacturing process makes it possible to produce any colour and to reproduce it consistently also after many months. The supervisory system guarantees that all product characteristics (torsions, title, tenacity, stabilization, ...) fit perfectly with the technical specifications requested by the customer, allowing product standardization with a consequent reduction of production and delivery times.

Continuous dust pollution monitoring with triboelectric sensors and SCADA

Industrial plants that emit particulate matter into flue gas or process ducts are usually required to keep dust concentration below a strict limit, and proving it with periodic manual sampling alone leaves long blind spots between one check and the next. A continuous dust pollution monitoring system, built on the Winlog Evo SCADA/HMI platform and realized in cooperation with Tribotecna Srl, closes that gap: triboelectric sensors installed directly in the duct feed a network of acquisition modules that report to a supervisory server around the clock, so operators see a rising trend and can act on the plant well before the reading crosses the regulatory limit, instead of discovering an exceedance after the fact. The same architecture also gives plant managers a defensible, continuously logged record of emission performance, which is increasingly what environmental authorities and internal audits expect rather than a handful of spot checks per year.

Continuous monitoring of medical devices in hospitals and research facilities

In hospitals, blood banks, pharmacies and biomedical research laboratories, maintaining a stable and controlled temperature inside refrigerators, freezers and cryogenic storage units is not merely a matter of operational efficiency — it is a patient safety and regulatory obligation. Biological samples, blood components, human tissues, vaccines and pharmaceutical products all have strict storage temperature requirements that, if breached even briefly, can lead to the irreversible degradation of irreplaceable materials. The consequences range from compromised diagnostic results to the total loss of tissue bank specimens that took months or years to collect and process. Regulatory frameworks such as the European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR 2017/745) and the quality standards of the ISO 9000 family place specific obligations on healthcare facilities to document and verify the conservation conditions of biological materials continuously and to demonstrate conformity through auditable records.

SCADA for comparative testing of wood stoves: thermal mapping and environmental monitoring

Independent test laboratories and manufacturers who evaluate a wood-burning stove’s performance need more than a single thermometer near the appliance: they need to compare how different stoves heat the same room, under the same environmental conditions, in a way that produces objective, repeatable numbers rather than impressions. Comparative testing of wood stoves calls for a data acquisition system that can capture a full spatial and environmental picture of the test room, correlate it with combustion behaviour, and keep every reading on record for later analysis. Winlog Evo is a reference example of a SCADA/HMI platform built to support exactly this kind of instrumented test bench, whether the appliances under test are traditional cast-iron wood stoves, pellet stoves, or newer high-efficiency designs evaluated side by side in the same climate-controlled room.

Quality Control in Metal Heat Treatment

In a plant division equipped with a mixed fleet of heat treatment furnaces — including multi-chamber furnaces, pit furnaces, tempering furnaces and hardening furnaces — guaranteeing consistent process quality while maintaining full traceability is one of the most demanding challenges in industrial manufacturing. Each furnace type operates with its own control logic, its own instrumentation and, often, its own standalone recorder. The result is a fragmented landscape where paper charts pile up in folders, cross-referencing data between machines is time-consuming and the quality control division only sees the process in retrospect, long after a non-conformity has already occurred.

Supervision of Low and Medium Voltage Networks

The continuous increase of energy costs, combined with the growing ability to compare and select the most suitable contract among different energy providers, is making a dedicated supervisory system an essential investment rather than an optional upgrade. In liberalized energy markets, prices change according to time slots, seasons and provider tariffs, and organizations that cannot track their real consumption in real time are effectively negotiating blind. A modern SCADA platform able to ensure continuous monitoring of power consumption and energy costs across low and medium voltage networks gives plant managers, energy managers and facility owners the visibility they need to control spending, plan budgets and reduce waste. According to the International Energy Agency, energy efficiency and demand-side monitoring remain among the most cost-effective levers available to industrial and commercial users facing volatile energy markets.