John Thompson & Sons, UK - Animal Feed Plant Case Study

Products: AutoPilot4Feed, MasterWeigh and Plan4Feed

Process control for Feed, Food and Flour Mills

DSL Systems design, supply and install advanced automation systems for Animal Feed Mills, Food Plants, Premix Plants, Pet Food Plants, Flour Mills, Grain Storage, Biomass Plants and Liquid Tank Farms.

  • Reliable systems with built-in redundancy
  • Optimise production and increase throughput
  • Responsive 24 hour 7 day support
  • Simple and intuitive operation
  • Fully configurable, flexible and modern systems
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Low maintenance - modern software and off the shelf hardware
  • Comprehensive long term recording of all information
  • Improve regulatory compliance
  • Reduce operator workload / manless operation in some areas
  • Cost effective upgrades from older systems with minimal downtime
  • Seamless integration with commercial and finance systems 
  • Available in multiple languages

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Customer Quotes

DSL were selected based on the fact they used the latest technology and were regarded as the best available

William McAusland

Production Director, Fane Valley Feeds

Since installing our first DSL system, we have seen steady improvement in outputs of up to 30% and in general a significant cost reduction through head count savings of 50%. I am confident that no other control systems are as effective as a DSL installation

Andy Vincent

Engineering Manager, BOCM PAULS

Thank you for your support, honesty, co-operation, flexibility and professionalism. We are very pleased with DSL Systems.

Jonathan Davies

Operations Director, Cambrian Pet Foods

The guys at DSL are very experienced, and combined with a high level of practical knowledge gained in other mills, they are able to quickly resolve issues. DSL exceeded our expectations in the level of integration provided, allowed us to analyse the plants bottlenecks and make further changes to greatly improve the plant performance.

Aidan Mitchell

Operations Director, John Thompson & Sons

I have worked with the DSL process control system at Moy Park’s Ashbourne Mill for over ten years, and found it to be a very robust and comprehensive process control system. The DSL support engineers have always been on hand to assist and advise with any issues, allowing continuous production at all times.

Aubrey Dennison

Mill Manager, Moy Park

DSL’s commissioning engineer was brilliant and was always available to help us afterwards. The upgrade went so well and the latest version of AutoPilot4Feed has let us run the mill faster than ever.

Seamus Grebbell

Mill Manager, Fridays

Changing to DSL’s AutoPilot4Feed was the best thing we ever did.

Tom Rylands

Managing Director, M. E. Waterhouse

The pellet press lines now operate very reliably at increased efficiency and throughput. The DSL engineer did a great job all the way from the preparatory stages through the installation and follow up.

Oliver Fsadni

Production Manager, Andrews Feeds, Malta


Products

AutoPilot4Feed

Animal Feed control system

Advanced front to back process control for all types of Animal Feeds Mill, Pet Food Plants, Premix Plants, Biomass Plants, Tank Farms and Feed Yards

AutoPilot4Flour

Flour mill control system

AutoPilot4Flour is a complete control system designed specifically for flour mills. It can cover all areas of a mill including weighbridge, intake, cleaning, blending, mill, outloading and packing.

Warehouse Stock Tracking

Stock tracking system to track products in warehouses to make it easy to locate goods and see current stock levels.

MasterWeigh

Manual weighing system

MasterWeigh is designed for the supervision and control of all types of manually weighed ingredients. It ensures weighing accuracy, is simple and easy to use and all operations are logged.

Plan4Feed

Production scheduling system

Plan4Feed is designed to simplify the process of scheduling orders for production by graphically displaying the production programme and highlighting any problems.

PowerMonitor4Feed

Energy monitoring system

PowerMonitor4Feed is a complete power monitoring and costing system.

Hand Held PDA

Mobile control for feed and flour mills

DSL’s Hand-Held PDA Terminal provides a method for controlling the plant remotely

Moisture measurement and control

On-line microwave moisture and density measurement

AssetMaster

Maintenance tracking and scheduling software

Plant maintenance scheduling and reporting system

Bagging Controller

DSL’s Bagging Controller is easy to use and runs on standard off-the-shelf hardware.

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