Controls and electrical for food and beverage plants

We work in running food and beverage plants, inside your GMP rules and your shutdown windows. Beverage, dairy, meat, bakery and frozen food plants, from the processing room to the packing line.

Plan your next shutdown Line down? Call 253-344-1523

A machine safety panel IKONIKA built and fitted on a bottling line.

What we work on

Processing lines: mixing, batching, cooking and cutting

Filling lines: bottles, cans and jugs

Packing and packaging lines: case packers, wrappers, palletizers and conveyors

Refrigeration controls: compressors, freezers and refrigeration plants

Water treatment and RO panels

Machine safety: light curtains, guarding and safety controllers

Drives: replacements, startups and repeat trips

Plant power: switchboards, MCCs and power quality

A row of drives in a line control panel.

Where to start

Urgent Support

For when the line has stopped and your people cannot restart it.

An engineer will come to your plant, fast where we can reach you. Remote support only where distance makes that slow. You will get the root cause and a written site assessment after every call.

How it works

Line Evaluation

For when you need a clear plan for a line's controls, for your own way forward or to put in front of your leadership.

We survey the hardware, backups, networks and screens on the line, and how the line runs. You will get a modernization proposal with budgetary prices, phased around your shutdowns.

How it works

Program and Drawing Recovery

For when the system has been changed over the years and nobody has current programs, backups or drawings.

We recover the running PLC and HMI programs, add comments so other engineers can read them, and bring your drawings up to as-built. A failure becomes a reload, not a rebuild.

How it works

Drive Support

For when a new drive needs starting up, a stored drive needs reforming, or a drive keeps tripping.

We start up ABB and Allen-Bradley drives, reform the capacitors in stored drives, and find the cause of faults.

How it works

“IKONIKA is consistently respectful of our plant requirements and GMP standards. They approach every task with a commitment to quality and a collaborative attitude.”
Manufacturing engineer, beverage plant

Field notes

PlantsRestoring control on a high-attention bottling lineMore than 60 drives replaced inside one nine-day shutdown. The line restarted on schedule.Read the field note

A row of relay modules in a control panel, every status light green.

PlantsA packaging line's drives and PLC replaced in one weekendEvery drive and the PLC in one section, rebuilt inside the same cabinet over a weekend.Read the field note

Inside your rules and your shutdowns

An IKONIKA engineer in a hairnet, gown and gloves working on a laptop on a food plant floor.

HygieneWashdown areas, stainless panels and the hygiene rules on your plant floor. We work to your GMP, sanitation and lockout rules.

ShutdownsLines that can only stop for a planned shutdown. We will plan the work to the hour, and agree what we can do with the line running.

Old networksDeviceNet and DH+ that nobody on site has been trained on. We will find the fault, and plan the move to EtherNet/IP when you are ready.

Machines from anywhereAllen-Bradley on most lines, and other makes on machines from out-of-state builders with no local support.

Questions

Can the line keep running while you work?Where it can. Before we start, we will agree with you what we can do with the line running and what needs a stop.

Can you work on a machine whose builder is gone?Yes. We work on whatever controls are on the line, and recover the program if nobody has a copy.

Can you add safety upgrades to older machines?Yes. Light curtains, guarding and safety controllers, fitted inside your shutdowns.

Tell us about your line

Tell us what the line makes, what it runs on, and when your next shutdown is. We will reply by the next working day.

Or call 253-344-1523