ESE, Inc. and Green Planet Farms Present Food Processing Case Study at Rockwell’s Automation Fair 2009

Marshfield, WI – October 13, 2009 - ESE, Inc., the Engineering Solutions Experts, announced today that Steve Schiedemeyer, Vice President of Engineering will be speaking at Process Solutions User Group (PSUG) held at Rockwell Automation Fair on November 9-10, 2009.  The session is titled  “Green Plant Farms Achieves Automation Scalability.”  He will be joined by Tim Foster, Executive Vice President of Engineering with Green Planet Farms.  ESE will also be exhibiting their family of Q5 Near Infrared (NIR) Analyzers for dairy and food processing during Rockwell’s Automation Fair® at booth #503.

The session how cover how Green Planet Farms met the challenge of migrating from a lab environment to a full scale, automated manufacturing process at their Greenfield plant.  ESE partnered with Green Planet Farms to help specify and implement a highly scalable process/ batch automation solution in a distributed control architecture with redundant wireless HMI technology.

About Green Planet Farms

Green Planet Farms, located in South Sioux City, Neb., is a leading ingredient manufacturer of soy isolates. Soy isolates are a key ingredient in a wide variety of food products, including milk, protein shakes and snack foods.  They are the only company that uses a unique, water-based extraction process for soy isolates that produces high quality and fully functional, hexane-free organic soy proteins for ingredient manufacturers.  For more information, visit http://www.greenplanetfarms.com.

About ESE

ESE has been at the forefront of designing and commissioning innovative plant automation systems for food and beverage applications since 1981. ESE tightly integrates leading-edge analytical instruments with best-in-class control systems and sophisticated software resulting in improved plant utilization, increased yields, better product quality, and faster delivery. The cornerstone of ESE’s instrumentation line is the family of Q5 Near Infrared Analyzers – designed for lab, in-line and at-line environments. In use at major production facilities across the country, Q5 analyzers provide fast and accurate analysis of liquids, solids, slurries, and powders. For more information visit us on the web at www.ese1.com.