Plantwide Automation & Information Solutions for the Dairy and Cheese Industry

From the tanker delivery of milk through final cheese packaging and inventory management, Cybertrol delivers end-to-end integration solutions to optimize production. With best practices learned from hundreds of successfully completed projects throughout the industry, we understand the processes, the regulations, and the operational challenges.

PMO-Compliant Process Control Experts

We have a team of cheese and dairy experts, who understand the industry's unique process requirements. Our engineers have created PMO-compliant process control solutions to ensure raw milk is processed efficiently and with the highest quality standards, while gathering the correct data to create the reports that are required. Cybertrol can effectively control production processes from intake bay management, standardization and pasteurization to recipe management for cheesemaking and dairy mixtures, to flexible and efficient sanitary CIP (Clean-in-Place) processes, ensuring the final product is in-spec and USDA compliant.  

• Milk Intake/Storage
• Milk Standardization
• Pasteurization (HTST)
• Homogenization
  
• Separation
• Filtration

• MES Implementation
• Performance Metrics/OEE
• Batch/Recipe Management
• Vat Automation
• Drying/Evaporation
• Materials Track and Trace

• Network Support/Security
• Production Management
• Configurable Clean-in-Place (CIP)
• Custom Reports & Dashboards
• Facility Modernization
• Packaging Line Integration

Electronic Records and Signatures

Cybertrol's extensive experience in the dairy and cheese industry has given us a comprehensive understanding of the electronic record requirements for the FDA and USDA. We specify data acquisition server systems, thoroughly validate systems in-house with test procedures, have written corporate standards to help companies comply with 21 CFR Part 11, and more.

PalletWorks Helps a Large Cheese Manufacturer Solve End-of-Line Errors

PalletWorks, a fully-integrated tracking and labeling software solution from Cybertrol, helped a large cheese manufacturer solve costly end-of-line errors occurring during the transfer of data from the plant floor to the ERP system. The PalletWorks web portal empowers factory floor associates to see the data and correct labeling mistakes before they are transferred to the ERP system, often avoiding loss of product and unplanned downtime. PalletWorks is a unique and creative integrated  solution, a bridge between the ERP and PLC on the plant floor.

Case Studies: Dairy and Cheese Industry

Manufacturing Intelligence (MI) Solutions

Cybertrol's Manufacturing Intelligence group includes software engineers that provide visibility into the control system through data visibility via reports, dashboards, web pages, or other methods. Our engineers can also provide the ability to connect into ERP systems for advanced integration into the business system when recipe and formulation connections to the plant floor are required. Having a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that can tie into the control system to track and report on production uptime, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), quality, or other production related data can be extremely valuable to an operation.

• Report design, definition, build, and deployment using various platforms
• Customer interfacing for data requirements
• ERP integration services when required
• Custom middleware applications when required
• Data collection into time series or event-based databases

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