Food Industry Automation and Analysis

For 30 years, plants everywhere have relied on ESE's team of food industry engineers and process specialists to meet their cost, quality and regulatory needs - from product receiving and manufacturing to product recovery.  Our knowledge and expertise span across these food (non-dairy) industries:

• Ingredient

• Oil

• Jam and Jelly

• Tomato Paste and Sauce

• Condiment

• Soy Products (Sauce, Tofu, Milk)

ESE's team of process controls engineers, designers, programmers and support personnel has specialized in getting food plants fully automated - a huge factor in maximizing productivity, reducing expenses and increasing profits.  ESE has vast experience in customizing food plant processes including:

• Highly scalable and intuitive recipe configuration capabilities  

• Recipe batching

• Continuous multiple stream in-line blending systems

• Clean-In-Place (CIP)

• Mix and hold tank control

• Ingredient receiving to finished product (packaging)

• Raw ingredient control

• Advanced system configurations (redundancy, thin client HMI platforms, wireless HMIs)

• Data acquisition, historian, and reporting

• And more

We also provide an extensive range of process automation and system integration services related to batch processes, fluid processes, blend processes, process retrofits and lot tracking.

Going a step beyond automation, one of the most versatile tools ESE offers food manufacturers is our Q5 Analyzer series with laboratory, at-line and in-line versions available. Using NIR testing, these state-of-the-art analyzers provide the fastest, most accurate multi-constituent testing.