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.
