TAI completed the structural, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation & controls portions of a Dries Product Bulk handling and multi-packaging line packaging system.

For the 5 story building addition, a new MCC was provided to power approximately 75 loads, as well, as control power to all control devices for the system. TAI generated all electrical and instrumentation bid drawings for the $250K electrical construction project. An Allen-Bradley SLC-5/05 processor was utilized to perform control functions required of the system with over 500 distributed I/O points. Allen-Bradley RSView32 was selected as the operator interface software, which resides on each of three networked operator workstations, communicating via Ethernet with the PLC processor. Full functioning graphic displays included operator control screens, recipe management, batching, trending, batch reporting and data logging features. TAI also designed the control systems and performed PLC and HMI development for associated downstream packaging equipment, and linked the various packaging equipment PLCs with the main system PLC into a complete integrated control system. TAI performed complete system and equipment commissioning including I/O checkout, loop checking, instrument calibration, and system/subsystem startup. TAI presently provides on-call maintenance and support services for this and other systems at the facility.