Brazil. By noticing, during the work that something is not right with a cooling chamber, a considerable loss of raw materials is avoided and serves as a warning to those responsible. This was the main reason why LC Bolonha Ingredients, a Paraná company with 30 years of activity in the ingredients sector for the food industry, began to use remote management as an ally to monitor its facilities.
In 2014, the company had the first contact with Sitrad, a Full Gauge Controls system, installed in one of its cooling chambers. Three years later, when faced with a flaw in a freezer containing high value-added products, again the option was to turn to software. The objective was to guarantee the safety of the machinery and especially of the stored products.
The team of Girelli Refrigeração, a company from Curitiba with more than 15 years of experience in the sale and technical assistance in refrigeration was responsible for the installation of the equipment. For the most recent project, implemented earlier this year, 24 MT-543E plus controllers (which monitor frozen ones) with PT-100 sensors (which can be applied at temperatures between -99oC and 300oC) were used, as well as two TC-900E Log. "For example, we have an ingredient that must be kept at 45 degrees below zero to ensure its integrity, and at such a low temperature, the work done by frizers is very large, and there may be a loss of efficiency after a period of time and put the products at risk," underlines the commercial director of LC Bolonha, Luiz Célio Bolonha Júnior. Therefore, the role of remote monitoring is extremely important for the company, which has 28 points supervised 24 hours a day and also waiting for expansion.
LC Bolonha's technology team is responsible for overseeing all data collected. For Luiz Célio, the biggest benefit that remote management provides is the speed of the response, because immediately after an alarm is issued, it is already possible to verify the origin of the problem and solve it immediately. "We had cases on the weekends, with a temperature that increased beyond the established parameters, and Sitrad allowed us to take quick measures to avoid damage to the products," he stressed.
For the company, the assistance provided by the team of Full Gauge Controls and Girelli Refrigeração, and in addition to the ease of installation and operation of the software, are also important benefits and that made the difference when choosing the tool. The system can be downloaded for free (in www.sitrad.com/es) and there is no cost to use it. To access the information, you simply have to have a device (tablet, computer or cell phone) connected to the Internet. Therefore, the user has complete control in the palm of his hand and can verify the data and correct the parameters safely, at any time and from anywhere in the world, ensuring peace of mind for managers and quality for consumers.
