{"id":11738,"date":"2019-12-12T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emydex.com\/sunpork-scales-new-heights\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:59:01","slug":"sunpork-scales-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emydex.com\/nz\/sunpork-scales-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"SunPork scales new heights"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Meet the client<\/h3>\r\n

Through Swickers Kingaroy, SunPork is the largest pig processor in all of Australia, handling 900,000 pigs every year to produce 18% (42 million kilos) of the nation’s pork. The group is proud to be Australian farmer-owned and a direct employer of 1,400 people across the country.<\/p>\r\n

In addition to the domestic market, SunPork exports 7 million kilos of pork to seven other countries and creates 140 million meals worldwide annually. They do this through 37 Australian farms in three states and six New Zealand farms on the two islands. They also have three feed-mills, a directly owned abattoir, major interest in a second facility, as well as two value-add facilities.<\/p>\r\n

The opportunity<\/h3>\r\n

Following the rebuild of the Export Boning Room after a fire at SunPorks’s Swickers abattoir in Queensland, the group began an additional AUD$ 64m (Euro \u20ac40m) investment in a new state-of-the-art facility in 2016. It set out to become the most efficient pork processing line in Australia with a capacity to process up to 750 pigs per hour, whilst maintaining a relentless focus on quality.<\/p>\r\n

In December 2019, the SunPork Group completed the Swickers abattoir expansion in Kingaroy, located three hours outside Brisbane, Queensland, creating more than 200 jobs in the process.<\/p>\r\n

So how do you become the fastest and most efficient pork processing facility in the country? You bring in one of the world’s leading providers of factory floor software for food processors. You bring in Emydex.<\/p>\r\n

What we did<\/h3>\r\n

The Sunpork project began with the design and development of a new state-of-the-art, fully automated kill line system for the Swickers processing plant, in line with Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0) best practice.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The main goal of this project was to interface the Emydex MES to an automated factory floor system consisting of a network of RFID readers and sensors, as well as multiple (20) in-line automated machines, connected to Emydex via the PLC layer. This meant integrating with equipment supplied by Frontmatec, Denmark, that included a carcass opener, automated splitting, AutoFom grader and a carcass stamp printer.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Other equipment included a PorkScan grader, automatic track scales as well as LED\/Light and gate control systems, in addition to other devices to manage routing. The use of multiple real-time vet inspection and grading stations also controlled the flow and routing of carcasses.<\/p>\r\n

RFID integration required the design and build of standard integrations (APIs) to interact with RFID tracking systems on the kill floor. The RFID system provides real-time carcass identification and tracking, enabling full traceability of the carcass throughout processing.<\/p>\r\n

As part of the project, the Emydex engineering team also designed and built a new centralised communication service, called the Data Communication Interface (DCI). DCI eliminates the need for individual terminals to have direct communication with the various integrated hardware and allows terminals to receive the data input in a unified format via this single central communication point.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The project also delivered additional new innovative systems for stock delivery and pen management, automated carcass routing and an automated chiller sortation system based on configurable business rules.<\/p>\r\n

Going Live<\/h3>\r\n

The system began commissioning at the SunPork Swickers plant in July 2019.<\/p>\r\n

The results<\/h3>\r\n

The effects were immediate, and the system keeps improving day by day.<\/p>\r\n

Geoff Miller,\u00a0<\/b>Group CFO and Company Secretary<\/p>\r\n

Ian Carson,\u00a0<\/b>Technical Sales Director, Emydex Australia<\/p>\r\n

The next phase is to refine and perfect Emydex’s ‘Factory of The Future system’ on the ground at Swickers and then roll Emydex systems out to further processing functions at Kingaroy and SunPork’s other facility in Queensland.<\/p>\r\n

In other’s words<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

Geoff Miller,\u00a0<\/b>Group CFO and Company Secretary<\/p>\r\n

Iestyn Thomas,\u00a0<\/b>Group IT Manager, Sunpork Group<\/p>\r\n

Geoff Miller,\u00a0<\/b>Group CFO and Company Secretary<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

For more on Emydex’s Products, or contact Sales in any of our Dublin, Brisbane, South Africa or Toronto<\/a> offices<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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