Yeast Support

Concept Controls have been long acknowledged as experts in Creamed Yeast and other Liquid Ingredients delivery systems.

We have carried out the controls and design of almost a hundred different installations, and developed a wide range of solutions for the various problems associated with the storage, delivery and hygiene of the systems.

It is therefore natural that we should offer a version of the CRAM system targeted at this market.

The system is currently undergoing successful trials for one of the major Yeast suppliers, and is providing a major stride forward from the traditional SCADA based systems used for Telemetry.

In particular it allows the Supplier to monitor the Yeast condition, and tank status and hence advise the end user of how the usage can be optimised. At the simplest level, this means that the need for delivery drivers to wait for long periods as Cleans are completed, and tanks made ready for delivery can be avoided. However the improved process monitoring allows the end user and the supplier to be more interactive and hence achieve better utilisation of expensive ingredients.

It is also proving an important tool for fine tuning of the plants, where adjustments are being made to the plant operation in real time, so that the effect of minor changes can be implemented and then monitored as soon as a change is identified.

Longer term, the ability to access the diagnostic data, allows the supplier to act as secondary resource for the majority of minor equipment issues, with Concept providing a third layer of design level support on the equipment. This is critical on many liquid plants, as they are generally very reliable, and hence even a minor issue can prove difficult to diagnose, as local engineers are rarely familiar with the plants.

The availability of the Cloud Access also means that the sales team can directly access both live plant data and historic data direct to their Phones, or Pads. This provides a clear advantage when arranging to visit a given customer, or when trying to help out a group of customers by re-organising deliveries to match changes in production needs.

The Yeast CRAM system can use, any available resource from GPRS, 3G, 4G (i.e. Mobile), through Local LAN and WAN, and even traditional telephone systems. The most common solution is based on the GPRS/ 3G as this has a low cost of installation and is generally very reliable.

Yeast System Typical Access:-

• Top Level (Sales and end users)

o Current Plant Status

o Historic Storage Conditions

o Graphs of usage

• Engineer (Off Site Engineers, Process Technicians, Supplier Engineers)

o As Above plus

o All data from HMI

o Access to full diagnostics

o Access to adjustments

o Remote Training of local Operators

• Designer (Concept Controls and Partners)

o As Above plus

o Access to programme PLC

o Access to programme HMI

o Access to temporarily change operations

o Access to trial improvements