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Meat Curing Mixer Retrofit

Application Engineer · 2015 — 2019

  • B&R
  • Retrofit
  • Food
  • VFD
  • CANopen
  • Structured Text

What?

Retrofit of a meat curing mixer, controlling the vacuum pressure and the main paddle motor.

How?

Development on the B&R platform using Structured Text, controlling the paddle motor via VFD over CANopen and regulating the process vacuum pressure.

Results

A modernized curing mixer with reliable vacuum and motor control over CANopen.

The video shows the meat curing mixer in operation after the retrofit.