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Project: Design of a
control package to automate and track-and-trace pallet loads of bricks
through a kiln firing process, and automatically load and unload the
cars through the kiln, including on weekends when the plant is unmanned. |
| The control structure for this project needed to be
very advanced due to the continuous production of the bricks on moving
cars through the kiln. Each car of bricks needed to be
tracked and traced, and the process regulated so the firing curves are
applied to the burners at specific points in the firing. |
| A recipe system was developed to store sequences
for various production runs. RealTime information is accessed
through an HMI station to enable the client to evaluate and adjust the
firing process, including automatic paging in the event of an alarm. |
| "The automation of this plant has produced
a major increase in production and plant profitability. The
service is always pretty good - they are always obliging when they come
up to sort things out." |
| Murray Boyes, General
Manager, Canterbury Clay Brick Ltd. |
