Making changes to a manufacturing plant can be costly and confusing. A dairy products company in the Midwest was recently faced with a difficult decision: Should the company simply replace the aged and malfunctioning packaging machine or re-automate and give it a new life? In an effort to avoid lengthy downtime and remain cost-effective, the company chose to rejuvenate the equipment.
Interstates basically did a complete retrofit of the machine, which included new servo motors and drives, new machine safety equipment, a control panel upgrade, a new human-machine interface (HMI), and a complete controls software rewrite.
