Food & Beverage
They say that great food comes from great ingredients, but we say that safe food comes from even safer food process manufacturing controls. Hygienic processes found in the US Food and Beverage Industry must be both ultra-reliable and incredibly dynamic, as feeding a nation of 332 million people under control of the world’s foremost food safety regulations is no simple matter. Whitman Controls earns our seat at the table by offering instrumentation specifically engineered for these demanding applications.
CHALLENGES
Take an extremely sensitive process that requires very exacting accuracies, layer on biological risks down to individual bacterial spores, top that off with extreme temperature and aggressive chemical exposure, and you have your run-of-the-mill food production environment! Food & Bev Industry challenges are certainly abundant, but are by no means insurmountable.
EXTENSIVE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
➤ The US Food and Beverage Industry is governed by at least a dozen federal agencies that have issued more than thirty-five bodies of regulation. Add to this over a hundred independent standards and practices associations, and another several dozen consulting international bodies, and we can start to see the magnitude of code-compliance in this market. Individual control devices, multi-plant SCADA systems, and everything in between have requirements expressed upon them by at least a handful of these regulatory interests
ULTRA-HIGH HYGIENIC STANDARDS
➤ In Food & Beverage processing, “hygienic” is often taken to simply mean “stainless steel materials”, but this falls woefully short of the mark. Hygienic Design describes an instrument’s ability to be easily cleaned, free of harborage areas, free draining of rinse water, corrosion-proof, and otherwise not a risk point towards the integrity of food or beverage products being manufactured nearby over the complete life of the sensor.
FOOD SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION
➤ No food manufacturer wants to experience a food recall just as surely as no consumer wants to suffer from foodborne illness, and the best way for both parties to steer clear of these risks is for food producers to actively obsess over the quality of the products that they distribute. Every detail of a food process environment – from operational practices down to materials of construction – plays a role in protecting and ensuring public health.
SOLUTIONS
While the challenges in Food & Beverage Manufacturing may seem significant, Whitman Controls brings the experience and technical expertise to help solve your toughest process control applications in a fully compliant, food-safe manner – especially in process utility and non-product contact systems.
Ultra-Pure, Ultra-Reliable Sensor Technology
Ultra-pure, fully traceable applications demand instrumentation that is not just a match in specifications, but is completely manufactured and delivered under high-purity procedures. Whitman produces Ultra-Pure sensors featuring austenitic stainless-steel materials, electron beam welds, helium leak-checking, NEMA 4X housings, documented pre-ship cleaning and sealed packaging. Further, our Ultra-Pure sensors have industry-leading cycle, temperature, pressure, and set-point ranges that assure high reliability in the most sensitive applications.
ISO Quality Control
Our product quality may speak for itself, but how can we assure this before you put our instruments into use? Whitman Controls is an ISO 9001 Certified business, providing you with the assurance that our products are entirely designed, manufactured, tested, and delivered using third-party verified practices, complete with total process documentation, material traceability, and chain of custody control.
Modular, Standardized System Specialties
Particularly for sensitive, continuous, and hygienic processes, deploying modular skidded systems with standardized components offers a keen way to limit production downtime, minimize contamination exposure, and manage commissioning risks. Whitman works with modular system builders to spec out complete instrumentation kits with matching features, similar output spans, and fewer unique parts, benefiting all aspects of a project from initial system design to long-term customer support.
Full Product Customization and Value-Add
Our predefined product catalog of hundreds of instruments is only the tip of the iceberg here at Whitman Controls. We can fully customize virtually any of our product models to your exact needs. We're especially excited about emergent applications and highly technical challenges, and can help you with one-off R&D samples as well as high volume production runs of your World's First instrument design, plus custom wiring harnesses, adaptors, and kits.
FOOD & BEVERAGE APPLICATION
PRODUCTS
Whitman Controls offers multiple instrument, switch, and transmitter models that are engineered to match the demands of the Food & Beverage Industry, such as these below related products.
W117G Ultra Pure Pressure Switch
The W117G Ultra Pure Stainless Steel Pressure Switches have all welded stainless steel interiors which are Helium leak checked to pass 4 x 10-9 Std CC/Sec. These switches are used in silicon wafer ovens, numerous medical devices and other applications where even the slightest impurities are not tolerated.
W117V Ultra Pure Vacuum Switch
The W117V Ultra Pure Stainless Steel Vacuum Switches have all welded stainless steel interiors which are Helium leak checked to pass 4 x 10-9 Std CC/Sec. These switches are used in silicon wafer ovens, numerous medical devices, and other applications where even the slightest impurities are not tolerated.
W117LV Ultra Pure Long Body Vacuum Switch
The W117LG NEMA 4 Ultra Pure Stainless Steel Pressure Switches have all welded stainless steel interiors which are Helium leak checked to pass 4 x 10-9 Std cc/sec. These are the NEMA 4 rated weather-proof, liquid-resistant version of the W117G, suitable for out¬side applications or in areas of condensing humidity.
W117 In-Stock Ultra Pure Pressure Switch
The W117 In-Stock switches come with fewer options than our customizable W117 switches, but are available for same day shipping when an order is placed prior to 1pm EST. These Ultra Pure Stainless Steel Pressure Switches have all welded stainless steel interiors which are Helium leak checked to pass 4 x 10-9 Std CC/Sec. The W117 is used in silicon wafer ovens, numerous medical devices and other applications where even the slightest impurities are not tolerated.
T150D Temperature Switch
The T150D Adjustable Stainless Steel Miniature Temperature Switches provide the end-user with a wide range of functionality without impacting durability. The T150 is designed for use up to 510°F but can withstand temperatures up to 800°F while still protecting the set point and life of the switch. The limit filled, saturated vapor sensor is in direct contact with the temperature-sensing outer shell producing fast response and accurate temperature control. The external setting scale provides full range adjustment and the external lock screw allows for easy adjustment of set point.
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