The Ames plant, which has the capacity to produce 150,000 tons of pasta annually, houses five Hi-Speed checkweighers (two Cornerstones and three Checkmates) with Safeline metal detectors on every line.
The company’s new plant in Avon, NY, was designed to be state-of-the-art, according to Barilla plant engineer John Davlin, who recognized the benefits of choosing equipment that could interface easily with the automation infrastructure of the new plant, standardized on Rockwell Automation’s ControlLogix programmable logic controllers.
