For two years, ICM has been developing, training, implementing, and evaluating an AI-driven control system for feed milling — across both batching and pellet line operations. It involved many iterations, false starts, and refinements, but the outcome: significant, measurable improvements in throughput, efficiency, and consistency.
1. Process Engineering (40%) Boots on the ground:
Boots on the ground:
– Detailed measurement and timing
– Instrument and sensor upgrades
– Electrical and mechanical adjustments
– Continuous testing and refinement
Critical to giving the AI reliable data and plant.
Technology only works if people trust it. Operators needed to see that AI was not about replacing them — it was about empowering them. The goal was to remove firefighting and allow operators to focus on quality, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
– Data cleaning and validation
– Rule definition
– Machine-learning models
– Inference engines
– Control system integration
– Training, testing, and refinement
Ironically, software was the easy part. The challenge is defining the correct objective. AI that perfectly understands the wrong goal will give you perfectly wrong results.
AI’s primary task is to keep the pellet lines continuously fed while balancing
meals production to meet dispatch schedules. It manages:
Starting with the production scheduler, for delivery requirements and deadlines. The AI system then takes control.
AI’s focuses on maximising throughput and minimising downtime:
– Lines start automatically when material is available.
– Seamless changeovers between pre-bins and products.
The objective: Run each line at maximum sustainable TPH, all the time.
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