GREATER EFFICIENCY FOR THE TORTILLA CHIP PRODUCTION LINE The Belgian snack food manufacturer Poco Loco - one of the market leaders in Tex Mex products - decided to modernize its plants to increase the efficiency of its production lines and thereby optimize its processes. The configurable small controller PNOZmulti 2 and corresponding software tool PNOZmulti Configurator is as an efficient and safe solution at Poco Loco. FASTER ANALYSIS EQUALS SHORTER DOWNTIMES! The manufacture of snack products requires a multi-part, interlinked production cycle. Previously the plant sections were regarded as individual units with separate emergency shutdown circuits. That made troubleshooting time-intensive and meant a large part of production was stopped. Pilz developed a concept to optimize these processes. Now that the configurable small controller PNOZmulti 2 is used, faults can be located directly on the display and can be rectified immediately. All safety functions are easy to configure via the PNOZmulti Configurator. Today, in the event of a malfunction, only individual production sections are stopped; the rest of production can continue running efficiently. With these adjustments Poco Loco was able to safeguard production efficiently: downtimes have been significantly reduced. BENEFITS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE SOLUTION: * Different user levels and the fact that all changes are recorded means that there is good traceability as well as protection against manipulation * Simple and intuitive to use due to the PNOZmulti Configurator - technical staff can use it too * Pilz supports its customers with many years of expertise and effective training Poco Loco production food chute flying chips. C A N A D I A N A U TO M AT I O N VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 22https://www.pilz.com/en-CA