Food and beverage plants run to a clock nobody else keeps. Product has a shelf life, the line has a wash-down window, and the audit is next month whether or not the switchboard is finished.
We work around that rather than against it. Changeovers staged into your clean-down slot, cabinets specified for wash-down environments, and commissioning done at 4am if 4am is when the line is cold.
What tends to go wrong in food plants
- Wash-down kills enclosures — IP-rated on the drawing, corroded in two years. Gland selection and stainless specification matter more here than anywhere else.
- Traceability creeps up on you — a customer audit asks for batch data the PLC was never set up to record, and retrofitting it mid-season is painful.
- Allergen and SKU changeovers — every extra product variant is another recipe, another set of parameters, and another thing an operator can get wrong at 2am.
- Nobody can stop the line — so the work either happens in a shutdown window or it does not happen at all.
Most sites in this sector are better served by an ongoing arrangement than job-by-job callouts. See maintenance agreements.
Relevant support
- Industrial Electrical Contracting
- Electrical Maintenance
- Breakdowns & Fault Finding
- Electrical Project Works
- Switchboard Upgrades
- Control Cabinet Design & Manufacture
- PLC & Automation Support
- Machine Installations
Service area
Mobile Automation supports customers across Melbourne, South East Melbourne, eastern suburbs and broader Victoria for suitable project works.