Vogelaar Vredehof B.V. is a Dutch company specializing in the trading and packing of hard fruit. Large volumes of apples and pears from around the world are processed and distributed all year round. The company's headquarters in the town of Krabbendijke lies in the major fruit district in the south-west of the Netherlands and is centrally located among the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Vlissingen. The aim of Vogelaar Vredehof's policy is to optimally attend to its customers with products and services using modern grading, packing, and storage facilities. In that respect, they can pride themselves on years of global experience and an enthusiastic team.
Within the company's fruit storage facilities, the Reliance SCADA/HMI system is installed to allow the operating personnel to completely visualize the cooling process. The operators can change process parameters and also print detailed reports of the temperature history. Report generation is highly automated.
Visualization of temperatures in cooling cells
Visualization of the cooling process in a cell
Cooling process setup
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Country
Netherlands
Title
Visualization and control of the cooling process at Vogelaar Vredehof, Netherlands
Implemented by
TSG
Year
2006
Control system
1 x Hitachi EH-150 PLC CPU548
SCADA software
1 x Reliance Runtime Control with 1,000 data points