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Kellogg's uses the PRIMS system to produce perfect Pop Tarts and Nutri-Grain Bars.
At
Kellogg's the PRIMS system controls all the hand scaling (100+ ingredients), automated
pre-scaling (50 ingredients), and the entire bulk automated batching system (5 mixers
with 10 automated bulk ingredients). Their original goal was to replace the existing
Schick batching system, which had failed several times resulting in extensive downtime,
but the PRIMS system has delivered benefits that were not a a part of the original
justification for the project.
The system, which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a a week, uses wired and wireless
bar-code scanners. Not only has the PRIMS system proved to be extremely reliable,
but it has the added advantage of allowing production to continue even in the event
a failure of the PRIMS workstation. In the case of such a failure, the PLCs controlling
the attached plant-floor equipment function in stand-alone mode until the PRIMS server
can be restored.
