Case-study

EX RATED flavour & fragrance

Background

As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flavour and fragrances, this company fits into the food and beverage markets. With such a vast range of products produced, many of them are used in household goods, including grooming, personal care and perfumes.

project scope

Various ingredients are stored in both liquid and powder form in EX rated areas within their factories. Recipes are manually prepared per production demand, with values entered into their commercial grade computers. Classified as operating in a hazardous area (dust), their current setup of PCs are not EX rated and is highly prone to non-safety standards. Washdowns are a regular occurrence for hygiene, QC and safety purposes. During wash-down, challenges arose to protect the commercial grade PCs through its IT and maintenance team.

Onsite assessment was conducted through Control Logic in partnership with STAHL to understand what was required and the best way forward, taking into account EX and IP ratings, with wash downs conducted at regular intervals.

Solution

After consultation and an understanding on the requirements, Control Logic recommended the implementation of STAHL’s 667 Series for KVN systems, that would bring the company in line with the requirements of Chemical and Food & Beverage industries.

The STAHL 667 series is well suited based on distinguishing features such as wide-screens for the display of complex processes, brilliant image quality, clean-room suitability and glass touch screens. Additionally they are available as a panel mount module (PM) that can be completely integrated in enclosures and can be flexibly configured.

Benefits

With the implementation of the 667 system, their system is now compliant to Australian IECEx zone 2 & 22 and enables the area to be explosive (EX) protected. It reduced downtime through easy installation in addition to plug-and-play driverless data transfers, easy to maintain IP66 screens and a compact and rugged design.

As the system was wall mounted, the customer was able to clean up unwanted and unsafe equipment holding expensive commercial grade PCs. Greater efficiency is also achieved by being able to wash down the system in a quicker time with the system now being IP65 rated.

...Control Logic recommended the implementation of STAHL’s 667 Series for KVN systems, that would bring the company in line with the requirements of Chemical and Food & Beverage industries.

Contact

For more information on Stahl’s 667 series, other explosion protected devices or this case-study, contact Control Logic on 1800 557 705 or by emailing our technical specialists at sales@controllogic.com.au .