Fane Valley, UK - Animal Feed Mill Case Study

Products: AutoPilot4Feed - Feed mill control system, Plan4Feed - Visual production scheduling and Hand Held PDA - Wireless control

Case Studies

John Thompson & Sons, UK - Animal Feed Mill

John Thompson & Sons is Europe’s biggest multi-species animal feed mill producing 650,000 tonnes per year. The AutoPilot4Feed system controls the whole production facility from raw material trucks arriving on site to finished product trucks leaving site.

W & H Marriage and Sons, UK - Flour mill

W & H Marriage and Sons is a well renowned independent family business established in 1824 which has undergone many modifications and upgrades over the years. The most recent being the replacement of the flour mill’s SCADA based PLC control system with DSL Systems fully automated, purpose built AutoPilot4Flour advanced control system.

Fane Valley, UK - Animal Feed Mill

Fane Valley has opened their new £18 million state-of-the-art compounding feed mill in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The mill is controlled by the latest version of DSL’s AutoPilot4Feed control system with some advanced and innovative features.

La Coop Fédérée, Canada - Micro Premix Plant

The La Coop Fédérée micro premix plant manufactures medicated and non-medicated premix, mineral and pro-block for animal feed. The premix plant was originally built in 1990 and the control system was updated to an AutoPilot4Feed feed mill control system by DSL Systems in 2002. This provides a highly accurate weighing and batching system and full traceability of all ingredients.

Dalton Seeds

DSL Systems have installed a warehouse stock tracking system at Dalton Seeds, Cambridgeshire, UK. Using extensive use of barcodes, the system is simple to operate yet provides all the facilities which operators and managers find so valuable.

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