Process Automation
Automation built on a real understanding of the unit operations behind your product.
Overview
Automation That Knows Your Process
Process automation removes manual steps that introduce error and slow production. The harder part is understanding the chemistry and physics behind each step, and that is where BCI's experience shows.
We automate the unit operations our customers depend on, from cooking and extrusion to distillation, and we control the variables (rate, temperature, pH and time) that determine whether a product meets spec.
Applications
Industries and Processes We Automate
Food & Beverage
Coffee roasting, dry mixes and baking, across snack foods, cereals, bakery lines and beverages.
Pharmaceutical
Validated ingredient automation from weighing through mixing, with the recipe flexibility a full product line demands and the electronic batch records regulated production depends on.
Specialty Chemical
Reaction control and high-accuracy batching for specialty chemical production, including food and starch ingredients and scientific research products.
Cooking & Extrusion
Ingredient metering by overall rate and zone-by-zone barrel temperature control for the product characteristics you need.
Distillation & Alcohol
Bourbon and grain neutral ethanol, from grain receiving through distillation to shipping, with proof-gallon record-keeping.
Modified Starches
High-accuracy batching with pH management and temperature control for exothermic and endothermic reactions.
Drying Applications
Spray, drum and multi-pass plenum drying for pet food and cereals, with flow and temperature control.
Margarines & Dressings
Batching and blending control for margarines, dressings and similar emulsified products.
Why It Matters
Productivity, Compliance and Insight
Automating a process does more than speed it up. It improves consistency, reduces errors, strengthens compliance records and frees your people for higher-value work.
It also produces data. The same system that runs your process can give you a clearer view of how it performs over time.
