As globalization continues to connect our world in new ways, food supply chains are being stressed as demand grows for perishable specialty produce needing long-distance shipping. Challenge: Create a state-of-the-art refrigeration control system with flexibility, visibility and efficiency at its core.

Process Solutions designed, engineered and built the Airixa™ Energy Management and Refrigeration Control System. Airixa is an open-architecture technology platform to deliver integrated energy efficiency and utility demand management to industrial refrigeration facilities. Already installed in more than 20 locations across North and South America. Airixa now controls 2,000,000 square feet of production space. This includes 152 produce ripening rooms. To provide full system analysis at both the plant and enterprise level. Airixa utilizes a highly flexible, interoperable control logic of a centralized supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, and the latest in smart programmable logic controllers from Siemens.

Stanwood, WA Process Solutions partners with their produce growing clients to develop advanced industrial refrigeration and energy management processcontrol systems for post-harvest processing and distribution, including rapid pre-cooling, long-termstorage cooling and ripening rooms to extendproduce life and combat food loss.