Background
McCall Farms operates a cooking and canning plant in Effingham, South Carolina, producing canned vegetables, beans, peas, yams, and Southern specialty foods under national brands. Turning raw ingredients into safe, shelf stable canned products requires precise thermal cooking processes alongside high speed canning line operations, both monitored and controlled through touch screen interfaces on the plant floor.
IVC Displays has supplied the industrial touch screen computers used across McCall Farms' cooking and canning operations at the Effingham plant since 2018.
The Challenge
Food processing plants place a demanding combination of requirements on computing hardware. Sanitation standards call for frequent washdown with water and cleaning chemicals, conditions that quickly damage standard, commercial grade touch screens not designed to be sealed against moisture. At the same time, the cooking process itself is food safety critical: accurate, dependable control over cook times and temperatures is essential to producing safe, consistent canned product, batch after batch.
McCall Farms needed touch screen computers that could survive repeated washdown and the humid, food plant environment, while giving operators precise, reliable control over both cooking and canning line operations.
The Solution
Since 2018, IVC Displays has supplied McCall Farms' Effingham plant with industrial grade touch screen computers built for food processing environments, sealed against washdown and humidity while giving operators accurate, dependable control over cooking and canning line equipment.
Rather than general purpose hardware retrofitted for a food plant, McCall Farms' operators rely on touch screen systems engineered specifically for the sanitation and process control demands of food manufacturing, keeping both the cooking and canning sides of the operation running reliably.
Results
- Washdown ready durability. Touch screen computers sealed against the water and cleaning chemicals used in routine plant sanitation.
- Dependable process control. Accurate, reliable operator interfaces supporting food safety critical cooking and canning operations.
- A long term technical partnership. Hardware supply and support continuing since 2018.
Looking Ahead
IVC Displays continues to supply the rugged, washdown ready touch screen computers behind McCall Farms' cooking and canning operations, helping keep the Effingham plant producing safe, consistent canned food reliably, batch after batch.
