Control system replacement Lindt & Sprüngli

For almost 20 years, ICS Automation AG has been servicing various production plants worldwide for the manufacture of chocolate. ICS controls the process from the intake of the cocoa bean to the loading of the moulding equipment, which finally gives the chocolate the desired form.

• loading and unloading stations
• roasting plants
• tank storage systems
• mass lines
• dosing and mixing systems
• manual additions with barcode scanners
• pumping and weighing stations
• rinsing and pigging systems
• iIntegration of various third-party machines
• quality controls, Q-systems
• batch reporting
• advanced data evaluation

Year after year, various plants of that customer may be equipped and automated with an ICS process control system. A special highlight started in 2016 and included a complete control system replacement for the Lindt plant in Kilchberg, Zurich. The project was at periods worked on by 15 project engineers in parallel and implemented within one year. In addition to the replacement of the PLC controls, various new operator stations were installed and a process control system was introduced. A special feature was the depth of the integration into the ERP, which was a big challenge here. The one-year engineering phase was followed by the on-site modification, which was carried out within a few days and finished on schedule.