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Food & Beverage

TIA Portal line controls and HMI for a growing food plant

Food & Beverage
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Platform

S7-1500 · TIA Portal

Scope

PLC + WinCC HMI

Location

Georgia

Delivered

4 weeks

Overview

A regional food manufacturer was adding capacity and needed three packaging lines brought under modern, maintainable Siemens control without pausing production.

The challenge

The existing lines ran on a patchwork of legacy logic with no documentation, making every changeover slow and every fault hard to diagnose. The plant needed a clean S7-1500 standard and an operator-friendly HMI, commissioned around a tight production calendar.

Our approach

We built a single, fully documented S7-1500 program with reusable function blocks shared across all three lines, then designed a WinCC HMI around the operators' actual workflow. Every tag and routine was reviewed by a second engineer before factory acceptance, and cutover was staged line by line to keep the plant running.

Results

Three packaging lines commissioned on schedule and on a fixed price

Changeover time reduced through standardized, reusable logic

Complete code and HMI documentation handed to the in-house maintenance team

The code is the cleanest we have ever received, and our team can actually maintain it.

Plant Engineering Manager · Food & Beverage