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The Food and Beverage industry is one of the most demanding types of industries when it comes to applying modern control systems. Minor deficiencies in food product quality can result in the immediate wastage of batches costing thousands of dollars. The key is to design a system with care that will react correctly under all possible conditions to "suspend" the system and alarm the operators, rather than keep processing "off" quality product.

Universal Dynamics has accumulated over 20 years of applying quality controls with pre-determined actions for all possible scenarios. The process starts with a thorough design strategy based on our accumulated experience with our customers.

Universal Dynamics has successfully applied our design philosophy to many products in the Food and Beverage Industry including:

  • decaffeination of coffee beans
  • juice press controls
  • corn chip fryers
  • sunflower seed roasters
  • tomato processing evaporator
  • automated Farm Produce sorting
  • a variety of dairy products applications
  • the brewery industry

Consistency of product quality and control of operating costs are critical in the Food and Beverage Industry. Universal Dynamics experience in advanced controls and process optimization helps customers maximize production while maintaining or enhancing product consistency. Companies have used BrainWave®, our patented adaptive controller in a range of Food and Beverage applications.

Advances in computer networking at the plant floor level have opened up many opportunities to integrate production data with shipping, inventory, and sales. The growth of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the Food and Beverage industries has been very large in the last few years. A reliable interface to the plant floor control system is one way that companies are maximizing the return on this investment Only with reliable controls can these products be made "just-in-time" for your dinner table. Universal Dynamics uses the same design philosophy in Business Process Integration projects to ensure that quality and reliability is built-in to your system.

Over 20 years of experience in the Food and Beverage industries has contributed towards a winning design philosophy, and the confidence to build in the robustness required to get a plant up and running Monday morning at 6 AM, every Monday.

Related Literature  

Articles/Papers

  • Advanced Controls Engineering - A Path to Brewing Profitability    (HTML)  (PDF)
  • Food Engineers Apply Predictive Control  (HTML)  (PDF)
  • You're nowhere in Vegas without Juice  (PDF)

Sample Projects

  • Labatt Breweries, Vancouver, BC - Brew Kettle  (HTML)
  • Del Monte Foods, Hanford, CA - BrainWave Application: Tomato Processing  (PDF)