Popina Food Services is a family owned company specialising in the manufacture of muesli based cereals and snack bars. The company, which has operated for more than 25 years has a 10,500 sqm facility and currently provides employment for some 110 employees. The company’s main customer base includes major supermarkets in Australia and overseas together with a number of Brand Owners.
After a 3 month trial, Popina elected to proceed with a full deployment of OFS onto it’s Toasting line. OFS was integrated with the line load cell conveyors and records kilograms of product through the oven.
OFSLive highlighted speed fluctuations across like product running through the oven. In the example shown the transition from Night shift to Day shift included a 20% drop in speed for a product that ran at the greater speed all through the previous shift, without any quality issues.
Once these patterns were identified, the plant immediately implemented a program to review operational settings and parameters to ensure both consistent product quality and machine performance.
To sustain a positive result, the campaign was accompanied by training operating crews in the revised procedures and live monitoring of OFSLive at the machines - enabling speed fluctuations to be detected and addressed as they happen.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Early wins in the OFS project included modifications to the mixing and pre-feed area to facilitate better flow into the oven, improved safety equipment at the machine and the commencement of an ongoing campaign to review the operational parameters for all major products.
