MICO24 for the food industry
Control in real time the variables that affect product quality, energy consumption, and line continuity.
Problem
In a food plant, a small deviation can end up having a direct impact on the product, the batch, or the margin. A cooking temperature outside the range, a cold room that loses performance, a steam boiler with abnormal consumption, or an unexpected stoppage halfway through the line is not always detected at the moment it starts.
When the information arrives late, the plant has already assumed part of the cost: more consumption, more product loss, more downtime, or less ability to justify what happened.
MICO24 solution
MICO24 captures data from industrial equipment and processes, displays it in real time, and generates alerts for relevant deviations. This allows production, maintenance, quality, and management teams to consult the same information and act before a small incident ends up affecting the line.
The platform helps control critical variables such as temperature, pressure, voltage and current readings, vibrations, consumption, process times, and parameters associated with industrial cooling, steam, or internal wastewater treatment.
Applications
- Extruders: control of extrusion pressure and temperature, power, and motor vibrations.
- Cooking vessels and cooking processes: monitoring of temperatures and phase times.
- Steam boilers: control of temperature, pressure, and associated consumption.
- Compressors and industrial cooling: control of the motor, voltage and current readings, temperature, and vibrations.
- Process wastewater treatment plants: control of parameters, motors, and blowers, with alert generation.
- Conveyor belts: control of voltage, current readings and motor vibrations to anticipate incidents.
Benefits
- Greater control over the variables that affect quality, traceability, and process stability.
- Fewer undetected incidents in cooling, steam, cooking, or production lines.
- Better monitoring of energy consumption in critical equipment.
- Greater ability to anticipate breakdowns and reduce unexpected stoppages.
- Shared information between production, maintenance, quality, and management.
Success story
"8% savings in steam thanks to monitoring with MICO24"
The implementation of the MICO24 system to control steam consumption at the Les Masies de Voltregà plant has allowed us to have real-time information on consumption and act to take the appropriate measures to optimize its use. We have implemented it on the production lines of the ovens and the boiler. Knowledge of consumption in real time, in a very easy and intuitive way, has allowed us to monitor it and optimize steam consumption by 8%.
Josep Perez
Engineering Director
Manufacture and commercialization of cold cuts and meat products
Demo applied to your line and let’s review which equipment, consumption, or critical variables you can start controlling with MICO24.