Meat+Poultry - December 2021 - Marel - 7

Poultry Processing
What do you want your poultry processing plant to be
capable of in about ten years time? What are your dream
wishes? Do you want to gain more insight, be less people
dependent, have self-learning autopilot machines? Do you
want to have your process automatically set up to achieve
an optimal output? What's the role in this for new
technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things
(IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? How can these new
technologies bring you real added value? Can you do
without them? Marel gives you a glance of its vision of
future poultry processing.
The world of IT technologies changes fast and offers almost
endless opportunities today. Marel uses these technologies and
makes them part of its innovations to simplify your life as a
processor in an increasingly complex process, increase output
and yield and reduce dependence on operators.
Connected machines
Of course, you will always want to improve your processes. A
way of doing this is to get your machines connected, a form of
IoT. They're already smart machines in a 'stand-alone' situation.
By connecting them, synergy will be even smarter.
All machines will have an internet-connector to communicate
with each other and with the cloud. Data collected from
connected machines needs to come together in a central place,
in the control room or in a cloud environment, so you can make
decisions based on fact much faster than ever before.
Connection to the cloud keeps your line running Connecting
your equipment to the cloud will bring many benefits. If every
second of line standstill counts, cloud analytics can inform you
timely of issues, to prevent future standstills. Based on this
information, you can improve your processes and increase your
yield. That's because we can add our specific Marel poultry
knowledge to this information and make it available to you.
When your line stops and you need Marel's help, having
technical data in the cloud will make it much easier for our
service department to remedy the problem. You don't have to
wait anymore for an engineer or product specialist. Repairing
and restarting the equipment can be done faster remotely and
digitally.
With every intervention, Marel's algorithms and insights will
become smarter so that we can keep on improving our service
to you. Getting your equipment connected to the cloud is
therefore a big advantage for you.
Machine connectivity allows for better choices in the value
chain Optimizing planning and production will benefit greatly
from connected machines. It's like an expanded version of
Innova PDS distribution software allowing production process
management to make the right choices. You'll know exactly how
to best match raw material to incoming customer orders, while
taking all food safety and traceability principles into
consideration.
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Machine connectivity will allow you to measure and control all
kinds of process characteristics such as broiler growth at the
farm, temperatures during transport, waiting times in the
lairage, air humidity in the factory, etc. In such a data-driven
environment, you can tell the machines in the line about the
characteristics of the coming flock, such as an overall light
weight. All settings will then adjust automatically to those set in
the memory for light flocks. All sensors, cameras and weighers
in the line will already have informed the equipment that a light
flock is about to arrive.
Safe and secure data
Marel is your trusted and transparent partner when it comes to
having data available in the cloud. Marel will configure the
cloud environment together with you, so you can be sure your
machines will only transmit data for which you have given
permission. The trusted secure cloud environment complies
with all privacy and security regulations such as GDPR.
Alerts and auto-recovery
In a near future, you will have an enormous amount of valuable
data at your fingertips. While you may not want to review data
graphs daily, you would want to be alerted if the performance of
a unit continues to drop below a minimum standard that has
been set. Eventually, even that won't be necessary, as we see in
our vision being able to provide an 'auto-recovery tool' to make
your process flow even smoother.
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