Week 6 of the Credo Online Petfood School (OPS) concluded today. The programme is jointly organised by Progressus Agrischools and Perendale Publishers, and sponsored by Agentis Innovations, Tietjen, Andritz, Wenger, PLP Systems and International Milling Directory.
The sessions began with a welcome from our session Moderators, Yiannis Christodoulou and Roger Gilbert. The presentations today were led by Joe Kearns, School moderator and In-house trainer. The session looked at plant computer control systems, and sanitation of Petfood plants.
The presentations covered topics such as:
- Levels of Control systems (manual, individual loop, integrated, automated)
- Raw material area
- Loss-in-weight control of dry recipe
- Volumetric feed rate control, compensated L-I-W refill control
- Extrusion additions
- PID Control
- ADR System will automatically sense and control the humidity in the exhaust to a pre-set level
- Feed Manufacturers responsibility with sanitation
- Raw material area, dry area, dry cleaning
- Loose metal parts, extrusion area, wet cleaning, extruder barrel, die area
- Conditioning cylinder area to mix dry with liquids
- Pneumatic systems
A Q&A with Joe and the moderators concluded the session, and gave attendees the opportunity to have all their questions answered.
We’d like to give a big Thank you to all our speakers across these 6 weeks:
Joe Kearns, Prof. Simon Davies, Giuseppe Bigliani, Thomas Runde, Ed de Souza, Robert Strathman, Michel Pereira, Marco Prati, Keith Erdley.
Catch Week 6 Online Petfood School, being re-broadcast tomorrow for US/Latin American audiences, September 29, CLICK HERE to access it.