Hygienic, traceable and reliable control systems for the food industry. BRC, IFS compliance and hygiene standards in every project.
The food and beverage industry combines unique demands: extreme hygiene, high production throughput, batch-to-batch traceability and compliance with food safety regulations. Automation systems must be robust, easy to clean, corrosion-resistant and fully documented to pass BRC and IFS certification audits.
At Bluemation we have developed projects in packaging plants, dosing lines, CIP/SIP cleaning systems, pasteurisers and food processing lines. We work with IP65/IP69K enclosures, food-grade materials and designs that facilitate cleaning and minimise cross-contamination risks.
Our experience includes traceability integration with ERP systems and electronic recipe management, which guarantees process reproducibility and simplifies format changeovers, reducing cleaning and setup times between SKUs.
Automation equipment must withstand aggressive cleaning with high-temperature alkaline and acid products. We design with IP65/IP69K enclosures, special seals, moisture-resistant cabling and materials suitable for cleaning product contact.
Food legislation requires complete traceability: which raw materials were used, what process parameters applied, which operator was involved and which customers received each batch. We implement systems that automatically record all this data and link it to the ERP.
Certification audits require technical documentation of control systems, alarm records, user access logs and recipe changes. Our systems include user management, access logging and data export for audits.
Many food plants operate 24/7 with very limited maintenance windows. We design for ease of maintenance: advanced diagnostics, hot-swappable modules, identified spare parts and preventive maintenance documentation.
A food plant manages dozens or hundreds of recipes. Changeovers must be fast, reproducible and error-free. We implement electronic recipe management with version control, role approval and automatic download to the line.
Temperature control is critical for food safety. We implement monitoring and control systems with automatic alarms, HACCP records and traceability of process conditions for each batch produced.
Automation of packagers, volumetric and gravimetric dosers, fillers and sealers. Inline weight control, out-of-spec product rejection and batch traceability.
Automation of clean-in-place (CIP) and sterilise-in-place (SIP) circuits: automatic sequences, cleaning product dosing, conductivity/temperature verification and cycle recording.
Centralised SCADA for production supervision with electronic recipe management: parameter download to equipment, deviation recording, alarm history and OEE reporting by shift and SKU.
Batch-to-batch traceability integrated with the client's ERP: raw material consumption, process parameters, inline quality control results and destination of each batch produced.
Temperature monitoring and control at all process stages: pasteurisation, refrigeration, storage. Automatic alarms, HACCP records and reporting for food safety audits.
Automation of plate pasteurisers and sterilisation tunnels: PID temperature control, treatment programme management, process alarms and automatic records for traceability.
Services we apply in food & beverage
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