Agricultural, Packhouse and Grain Handling Automation

We understand the materials handling and processing behind an agricultural site, from receival and intake through cleaning, grading, drying, transfer, storage and packing, which lets us program dependable sequence control with clear permissives and fault recovery rather than working from a long functional specification.

Grain and bulk materials handling control is built around route selection and interlocking. A route is only started when every elevator, conveyor, diverter and gate on it is proven in position, equipment starts from the discharge end back to the intake, and it stops from the intake forward with run-out time so each leg clears before it halts. Bin levels, under-speed and blockage detection are part of the route logic, so a fault stops the route upstream of the problem instead of filling a leg.

In packhouses, the controls coordinate bin tipping, washing, grading and sizing, packing and case handling, labelling and palletising. Lot identity follows the fruit from the bin to the pallet label, and line states and downtime are captured so operations can see where throughput and yield are being lost during the season.

Integration covers weigh systems, conveyors, sorters, drives, packaging machines and site reporting platforms. Traceability is built into the PLC and SCADA design with event capture, lot context and structured production records for QA and customer reporting.

Architectures are designed for staged upgrades, so a site can modernise the highest-impact assets between seasons and keep producing while the rest follows.