Food processing machinery orders in October 2010 clearly positive

Food processing machinery orders in October 2010 clearly positive
15/12/2010 - In October, orders food processing machinery has increased by 39 percent over the previous month. This placed the foreign countries by 57 percent and domestic orders missed the previous month by 12 percent.


Foreign demand is again sharply
In the first ten months of 2010 were the orders by a total of 44.7 percent over the comparable period last year.
The orders from abroad in the period grew by 55.2 percent, while the euro countries have not as strong dynamics showed: The plus here was 26.2 percent over the previous year.

Dynamics within the country flattens out at the end
From the domestic order intake grew in the first ten months of 2010 by nearly 21 percent over the relatively high figure: Unlike in international business, the demand for food machinery remained in the crisis year of 2009 is very stable and thus developed from this strong position in 2010 with a very strong dynamics, which is now slowly abating.

The high rate of change in foreign orders will be distorted by low reference values upward. The upswing from abroad is not only due to the underlying effect. The turnover is slightly higher than in the previous year and will land by premiums yet to beating sales in November and December with a significant increase in rate of the positive zone.

Happy faces at the General Meetings
At the meetings of the members of the Meat-processing machines and candy machines, which took place within the last three weeks, the company representatives were very satisfied with the business. Was particularly gratifying that the demand from all economic regions has tightened significantly during the year. Whether Eastern Europe or Asia, the EU countries and even North America, everywhere has been and is reinvested.

For the meat processing machinery manufacturers IFFA in May was the right incentives, especially for international business: How has the industry - the very short lead times has - in the first three quarters of 2010 already exceeded the level of exports in 2009. The largest part of the food industry machinery had, however, in 2009 suffered from a crisis-related declines in orders, especially from Russia and USA and recorded significant losses of foreign business must.

The candy machinery manufacturers, most of which have well over 80 percent export share, were paradoxically not taken quite as much on the impact of the crisis. Not only was the industry with a backlog of orders from last year a good start to the year 2009 and for another, the manufacturer of confectionery machinery very wide set in the export business, so that lack of demand from the EU countries through active investment activity in the Middle East and East Asia could be partially compensated. Orders in hand at the time of December 2010, many companies already by mid 2011.

Overall, the companies have come through the crisis. Staff was held in 2009, partly in the current year, even up slightly. 2011 will see the participants of the meetings of the members in any case contrary to

Interface standard for meat processing machinery

WAS Food - Interface standard for meat processing machines
First results presented at IFFA 2010
25.08.2010 - At this year's IFFA in May 2010 was the interface standard WS Food (Weihenstephan standard food) presented after two years of work to the public. At the project initiated by the VDMA ten member companies of the Meat processing machinery were actively involved.

High optimization potential in the automation processes
WAS Food makes "common language" of machinery
To other food processing equipment applicable

Beside the VDMA member companies dedicated to the NRW Food Processing Initiative (FPI), three manufacturers of software and the Westphalian Fleischwarenfabrik Stockmeyer in the working group. The University of East Westphalia-Lippe in Lemgo and the Institute of Food Packaging Technology of the TU Munich Weihenstephan were instrumental in the realization of the project.

High optimization potential in the automation processes
The level of automation in the meat industry is very low. One of the reasons is that the meat processing and sausage making in many individual process steps such as chopping, cooking, chilling and smoking is right up to packaging. No food machinery supplier offers the full range of required machinery. The customer must, therefore, the individual units are referred by different manufacturers. At the same time, the demands for documentation and monitoring of the processes that shall enable the traceability of the production. To date, the required information from the programmable logic controllers (PLCs), each machine is available in lot of programming work to be used in the operation of data acquisition systems.

Drive control processes consistently and to be able - for the meat processors and sausage producers a considerable relief in light of the high control requirements for food establishments.

WAS Food makes "common language" of machinery
The project has been too easy to see that all automation processes can only be successful if the individual machine to speak a common language. To develop a uniform and non-proprietary formulation of interfaces and data sets, was the objective of the project group. Fortunately, the members build on for five years in the beverage industry established Weihenstephan standard that is now required across manufacturers in many beverage companies. This standard was transferred to the meat industry and adapted to the prevailing conditions.

WAS Food thus provides a uniform basis for collecting data from the PLC of each individual machine. This uniform basis is simple, specially created developed communication commands and the documentation of the interface in XML format. Requirement for this common language is to make the information on measurements, quantities, provide machine and system states in machine control, in order to be recognized over ordered and evaluated. The required data content for this have been clearly defined.

To other food machinery applicable
All ready on the appropriate data words (tags) have a unique number by which they can be assigned unambiguously. Result of these definitions is the fact that each signal and its content can be provided in a predefined format. This format and content of this information can be obtained from each parent data acquisition system regardless of food machinery type and manufacturer.

Food with WAS a first contribution to improving the automation process is done, allowing the meat processing plants, quick to process data and figures for production safety and fault analysis to access and use them for a quick and inexpensive data collection. A transfer to other food processing machinery is possible.

In addition to WS food down a foundation for further automation of individual processing steps. It is the industrial user group - consisting of the pioneers of the project (see download) and new users - under the leadership of Dr. Voigt, TU Munich Weihenstephan, keep on working.

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on food machinery for meat, cereals and vegetables.