DEVELOPING A PROCESS INFORMATION SYSTEM AT FARLEIGH MILL

The production focus within any economic climate must be to reduce cost and increase incomes. The income from sugar can be increased if high quality sugar that qualifies as a premium on the world market is produced. This paper describes how Internet technologies in the form of a simple Intranet can be used to assist in the production of premium grade sugar. It identifies that a key component of a quality control system is the ability to provide relevant information in real time to production personnel on the factory floor. It illustrates how a simple Intranet can be built using off-the-shelf components and highlights that the system can be constructed without recourse to programming. The specific focus of this paper is the development of an information system that provides a target sugar pol to the high-grade fugal operator. This target pol figure would take into account the four-hour sugar sample period in use at Farleigh, the Farleigh laboratory analysis of that sample and the current position in the nominal 2000 t QSL sample.