DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
WHETHER IT ’ S PICKING , packing , palletising or shipping , ABB delivers solutions across utilities and infrastructure that impact the entire spectrum of food and beverage industry operations .
“ Our experience at delivering reliable cold chain technology for the medical sector is something we can offer to food and beverage companies ,” confirms ABB ’ s Global Marketing & Portfolio Manager Tatjana Milenovic who notes that growing fresh food in a commercial greenhouse is like operating a clean room in the pharma industry .
“ The implementation of our expertise in fleet management and the automisation of equipment management across the whole value chain from agriculture , to ingredients processing , and the journey from manufacturing to retail warehouses , we work with manufacturing facilities and plants that need optimised cold storage either for raw materials , intermediate goods or the final product . We look at the quality of power intake because even a small fluctuation in voltage , such as a threemillisecond surge , can cause a few hours of down time , which in cold
storage equates to escalating costs .”
With many components in the cold chain , ABB offers a key service by providing the most efficient motors allied to the automation of controls across the whole operation of the cold chain with sensors to monitor temperature and humidity . “ With our ABB Ability Connected Services we monitor everything from low voltage switch gears and transformers to the smallest valves , drives and motor components in the cold storage system ,” explains Milenovic . “ This is vital because you don ’ t want to perform maintenance on a specific timescale or in a reactive way , but
24 April 2018