Case Study: a large animal feed facility achieves minimal-downtime PLC and HMI upgrade with Cybertrol Engineering

a large feed plant upgrades multiple PLCs over one long weekend with Cybertrol Engineering

The customer, a large animal feed facility, faced the challenge of upgrading numerous obsolete PLCs and HMIs across their plant with minimal downtime. Cybertrol Engineering was engaged to perform this plantwide upgrade, which involved modernizing approximately 20 racks of I/O and converting three different legacy PLC platforms.

Cybertrol Engineering executed the solution over a single long weekend, converting the system to modern ControlLogix and CompactLogix PLCs and upgrading the HMIs to FactoryTalk View SE. The results were seamless, with operators noticing no discernible difference post-upgrade other than a significant increase in HMI performance speed, achieving the client's goal of minimal downtime.