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Jack Daniel's distillery, USA - Reduction of expenditures with SIMATICS Virtualization
Jack Daniel's distillery, USA - Reduction of expenditures with SIMATICS Virtualization
Food & Beverages
Jack Daniel’s
Lynchburg, Tennessee United States of America
With no room for expansion in the existing distillery, plans were developed to build a second distillery (Jack Daniel's Distillery 2 - JD2)
The strategy was to design an automated plant that preserved existing operating philosophies and that could scale by adding capacity in phases as needed and allow for grain bill flexibility
Expansion to meet current and future demand
To keep Jack Daniel's existing operating philosophies in place at the new plant
To implement new operator interface technologies, as well as new instrumentation, wireless networking and have the ability to connect the two plants
SIMATICS Virtualization as a Service (SIVaaS):
Virtualization system with two identical host machines. Each machine has an operator station (OS) server, batch server, route control server and an engineering station providing redundant pairs for all critical functions
SIMATICS PCS7, BATCH and route control: 10 panels, more than 2,000 I/O points, four S7-410 controllers, 22 remote I/O racks and more than 200 I/O cards
The operator interface uses a strategic placement of touch-panels and iPad tablets
Reduction of operational and development expenditures
Control design advantages, operator/maintenance improvements and system flexibility
Inexpensive HW replacement compared to standard machines
Using of SIVaaS means, that virtual machines can be accessed through VMware vSphere hypervisor software on the iPads for maintenance, updating and troubleshooting
The oldest registered distiller in the U.S., Jack Daniel's Distillery, was running at capacity and landlocked at one distillery in Lynchburg/Tenn.
