Production line with traceability Lindt & Sprüngli

The requirements for production companies are continuously increasing. One of the main requirements is the traceability of production processes to ensure food safety. The systematic division of the production process into individual process lines and the subdivision into defined production quantities (batches) form the basis for such traceability. Today's systems offer further possibilities and an almost complete reporting of the production process.

• traceability through the production process
• material and batch handling
• labelling of semi-finished and finished products
• tank farm management
• container handling
• warehouse management
• production recipes and order handling
• reporting and trend curves
• monitoring of operator interactions (audit trail)
• tracing of each sensor and actuator (historian)

Lindt und Sprüngli France, with the plant in Oloron, faces a special challenge. The steadily growing plant is constantly being expanded and extended with new production lines. The individual production lines are all controlled by autonomous control systems and therefore represent a great challenge, especially for maintenance and operators. Different control types, various bus systems as well as the diverse user interfaces are just a few examples of the high variance. Thanks to the positive reputation in the food industry, ICS Automation AG was finally given the opportunity to help the customer and equip his plant with an ICS process control system. This allows the customer to integrate the existing control technology and processes despite complete modernization and standardization of the operating systems. Thanks to the new user interface, the customer-specific dialogs and reports as well as the uniform PLC programming, he is now perfectly prepared for further expansions.