Ethernet in the food industry: Meggle.
Food / Beverage
Latest technology for the finest butter specialties
The Meggle brand stands for the pleasure of used, consisting of four MACH 3000 backbone eating, convenience and a modern eating switches as well as Hirschmann™’s Rail Family. culture. To safeguard the manufacturing Even with so much technology, the butter processes in the raw milk plant, butter plant nevertheless remains a purely natural product. and power plant areas, a redundant network is
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Mutterlaugen Butterei
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Project details Project parameters Experience, quality and success characterise • Meggle group turnover: more than euro 500 Meggle, a company that can look back over more million in the corporate group MACH 3002 than a hundred years of history. • Connection of the manufacturing process via a redundant network Founded in 1887 as a small dairy in Wasserburg Rail Switch near Munich, today theRS2-FX/FX company is international RequirementsF/O singlemode Rail Switch and one of the largest and best-knownRS2-TX/TX producers • Fault tolerance of milk products in Europe. World-wide the • Expandability company employs more than 1400 employees. • Gigabit Ethernet • Fast Ethernet The product range includes butter specialties for • Multimode links food retailing, individual solutions for the catering market, dried milk products for the food industry, Solution as well as lactose products for the pharmaceutical • Network topology: RS2 FX/FX industry. – Backbone MACH 3000 – Redundant link with Gigabit Ethernet Meggle Alpenbutter is produced daily using • Network physical size: connection of four traditional processes and immediately freshly manufacturing plants using multimode optical packed. At the start it is milk. However only the fibers best of the milk, the cream, can be used for butter. • Devices used: For this reason the cream is separated from the – 4 Gigabit Ethernet Switches MACH 3002 milk by spinning (centrifuging). Short, careful – 6 Ethernet Rail Switches RS2 FX/FX heating (pasteurising) ensures that the cream is • Service provided: network planning absolutely free of germs, after cooling the cream is ripened/ aged for approx. 16 hours. Using a Why Hirschmann™? timetemperature program, the cream is subjected • Redundancy concept with HIPER-Ring to rest, heating and cooling phases during this • Homogeneous product family period. This process improves the spreading • Industrial standard products properties and texture of the butter.
Even with so much technology, the butter nevertheless remains a purely natural product.
Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH • Phone +49 7127 14 1480 www.hirschmann.com CS 008-02-0205 This case study was compiled in cooperation with Meggle AG, Megglestrasse 6-12, D-83512 Wasserburg.