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Automating a Small Fluid Milk Plant
To automate or not to
automate; this question may be
answered for small fluid milk
processing plant owners and
managers in a new report of the
U S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
If small dairy plant owners and
managers are to continue
operating, they must compete
with larger automated plants. In
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automating their fluid milk
plants they must reduce the labor
requirements for performing the
processing operations without
sacrificing either the safety of the
quality of the finished product.
However, operating costs must
be reduced enough to pay for the
automated equipment installed
Engineers of USDA’s
Agricultural Research Service,
in cooperation with food scien
tists of the Missouri Agricultural
Experiment Station, Columbia,
designed and installed in the fluid
milk processing line at the
University of Missouri plant an
automated system that produces
a 7 7 percent annual net savings
This system has safety features
that equal or exceed those
recommended by U.S. Public
Health Service, and required by
state and local regulations.
Additions to the conventional
processing line consist of
Air-actuated valves and
cleaned-in-place fixtures
A two-speed sanitary cen
trifugal pump
A liquid level controller and a
spray tube for the vacuum
chamber
A control system which per
mits the homogenizer to be
cleaned-m-place with the
processing line
Reduced labor costs account
for all resulting savings
Equipment costs are higher for
the automated system Ap
proximately 65 percent of the
savings involve homogenized
milk
Copies of the publication, ARS
NC-2, “An Economic Analysis of
Automating a Small Fluid Milk
Plant,” are available free from
Dr Maynard E Anderson,
Agricultural Engineering
Department, Building T-12,
University of Missouri,
Columbia, Mo 65201 Please use
zipcodes
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