MGP Ingredients, USA - Pursuing a modernization strategy with SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service
MGP Ingredients, USA - Pursuing a modernization strategy with SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service
Food & Beverages
MGP
Lawrenceburg United States of America
As the demand for whiskeys and beverage grade grain neutral spirits has exploded the current production capacity needed to be expanded.
This has placed an emphasis on a migration and modernization strategy from the current APACS / TI systems that needed to be flexible, ready for change and adaptability for future modernization.
A virtualized environment of SIMATIC PCS7 and SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service was the solution for their plant to meet these challenges.
The solution is a completely virtualized architecture with six clients, an Engineering Station, PCS7/APACS+ OS Servers and an OpenOS machine for connection to SAP.
Siemens provided services to integrate the ESXI servers and thin clients, convert the graphics, test the system during a weeklong FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing) and assist with start-up on-site for 10 days.
MGP Ingredients (MGPI) is a highly reliable provider of ingredients for a more health-conscious, environmentally-friendly world. Headquartered in Atchison, Kansas, MGPI started as a one-plant operation in the heart of America's grain belt in 1941.
