CANopen in delicatessen production
At its Brianza factory, the Italian delicatessen company Fratelli Beretta aims to move away from proprietary solutions towards interoperable automation units. Fratelli Beretta's new plant was commissioned in 2004. The installation covers three floors with a total area of 15 000 m2.
The Beretta brothers have been active in the food industry since 1812. For over five generations they handed down their experience and recipes for the production of high quality sausages and pork products.
Producing the delicatessen requires a draining and curing process at the hundred cooling cells in place, and these are controlled by human machine interfaces (HMI) with programmable logic controller (PLC). The automation series is scalable, and flexible. The basic units come with a RISC-CPU (32-bit, 400 MHz) and integrated interfaces such as CANopen.
