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Safe Access to Continuous Processes
Walkers Snackfoods
Walkers is the UK's favourite crisps brand. Founded in 1948, butcher Henry Walker began making crisps in his Leicester Plant to keep his workers busy, as meat was scarce in post-war Britain.
Today, Walkers is Britain's largest crisp manufacturer, employing thousands of people in seven locations. Walkers has 16 ranges of crisps and snacks including Walkers Sensations, Doritos and Quavers.
Still based in Leicester, Walkers joined the PepsiCo family in 1989 and makes around 10 million bags of crisps a day.
The Challenge
High speed manufacturing and other processes are difficult to maintain in safety without shutting systems down completely. Walkers Snackfoods required a control system to manage access permissions into a dangerous zone including switching the system into a safe mode before allowing access.
Szabo Software Solution
- Szabo “Safe Access” system controls the permission and access to an industrial installation or a dangerous Zone. The system switches the installation into a safe mode before it grants the maintenance engineers access.
- Personnel identification/ entry request
Szabo Software Benefits
- Reduced disruption
- Personnel safety improved
Other Applications
- Robot – assembly lines
- Production centres
- Electro Monorail
- Other fenced systems
