— Project 07 of 07 · Food & Beverage

Animal feed blending automation, Beaudesert QLD.

Omron PLC semi-automatic blending system integrated with Tencia ERP via SQL. RFID operator authentication, barcode-driven ingredient selection, and gravimetric dosing across three stations — Micro Rooms 1 & 2 plus Bulk Blending. EtherCat remote I/O.

01 / overview

Three stations, ERP-integrated, operator-traceable.

An Omron PLC semi-automatic blending system integrated with Tencia ERP via SQL. RFID operator authentication and barcode-driven ingredient selection drive gravimetric dosing across three stations — Micro Rooms 1 and 2 plus Bulk Blending — with EtherCat remote I/O tying the cells together.

Industry: Agriculture — Animal feed
Service: Programming
Location: Beaudesert, QLD
Year: 2017
Control: Omron PLC · EtherCat remote I/O
Integration: Tencia ERP via SQL

[TODO] Customer narrative Who the customer is, what they make, why they wanted semi-automatic (operator-in-the-loop) blending rather than fully automatic, and how Pac was engaged.

02 / challenge

The challenge.

[TODO] Brief & constraints Why three stations? What was the operator workflow they wanted to enforce? Anything specific about feed traceability requirements, ingredient cross-contamination, or batch sizes that shaped the design.

03 / approach

Our approach.

[TODO] Engagement narrative How the Omron / EtherCat topology lays out across the three rooms. How RFID auth gates a batch, how the Tencia/SQL bridge works for recipe download and result write-back, what guards the gravimetric tolerance.

PLC: Omron
I/O: EtherCat remote
Stations: Micro Room 1 · Micro Room 2 · Bulk Blending
Operator auth: RFID
Ingredient selection: Barcode-driven
ERP: Tencia via SQL