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Plantwide Automation & Data Solutions for Cheese and Dairy Manufacturing

 

At Booth 627, we showcased how Cybertrol helps cheese and dairy manufacturers improve batching, CIP, reporting, traceability, and plantwide visibility with scalable automation and information solutions.

📍 Booth #627

📆 April 14 - 16 | Baird Center | Milwaukee, WI

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Let's talk next steps after CheeseExpo.

Email us with your preferred date and time, and we’ll follow up to confirm. Let us know what you’re working on—batching, CIP, reporting, or plantwide visibility—and we’ll tailor the conversation. 

Thank you for stopping by the Cybertrol booth at CheeseExpo. The team below was on-site to discuss automation, digital manufacturing, and system integration solutions that help cheese and dairy manufacturers improve production performance, visibility, and traceability.
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BEN DURBIN 
CEO
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TIM BARTHEL
Executive VP
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JOHN TERTIN
VP, Digital Transformation
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DAN CARON
Sr. Account Manager
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TRAVIS HUNT
Director, Food & Beverage
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ZACH HECKERT
Principal Automation Engineer

Why Dairy Producers Choose Cybertrol

Automation Expertise Built for Dairy Operations

Cheese and dairy operations require more than isolated controls projects. They require an integration partner that understands the full process, from ingredient handling and batching to CIP, packaging, reporting, and enterprise connectivity.

Cybertrol Engineering delivers plantwide automation and information solutions designed to help manufacturers:

  • Improve process consistency and recipe execution
  • Increase visibility across batching, sanitation, and production operations
  • Strengthen traceability and reporting
  • Reduce manual work and disconnected data
  • Build scalable systems that support future growth

Key Solutions for Cheese & Dairy Plants

Batch & Recipe Management for Dairy Production

Standardize formulation control and improve production execution with a batch and recipe management approach built for high-mix manufacturing environments. Cybertrol’s BatchWorks® integration software supports recipe lifecycle management, formulation control, production scheduling, material tracking, and traceability while integrating with PLC-based systems and broader MES or ERP workflows.

  • Better control of recipes, formulations, and versions

  • Improved traceability from raw ingredients to finished product

  • More efficient scheduling and batch execution

  • Reduced maintenance in high-SKU environments

  • Stronger foundation for future MES integration

Explore how our batching solutions help reduce variability → 

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Configurable CIP that Improves Sanitation Visibility

Cybertrol’s configurable CIP approach gives operators and supervisors better visibility into wash execution, interlocks, circuit status, and wash history, while allowing many routine adjustments from the HMI instead of requiring PLC code changes. The platform supports graphical CIP overviews, programmable wash recipes, circuit-level configuration, tracking, and reporting.

  • Clear visibility into wash progress and equipment state

  • Faster troubleshooting with exposed permissives and interlocks

  • Flexible recipe management for sanitation programs

  • Better compliance support with wash tracking and audit-friendly history

  • Easier optimization of CIP performance over time

 Learn more about optimizing your cleaning process → 

Enterprise Reporting & Plantwide Data Visibility

Turn production data into usable operational insight. Cybertrol helps dairy manufacturers connect plant-floor information with reporting platforms that provide batch reporting, CIP reporting, site-level dashboards, and enterprise-wide visibility. These architectures can build on existing PLC, historian, MES, and SQL data sources instead of requiring a rip-and-replace approach.

  • Better visibility across lines, systems, and sites

  • Faster access to batch, CIP, and operational history

  • Standardized reporting across facilities

  • Cloud-enabled access for broader operational insight

  • Better decision support for operations, quality, and leadership

Get the right data, in the right format...when it matters most → 

PalletWorks BatchWorks and CIP Interfaces on Devices

Real-time visibility across operations — from BatchWorks and PalletWorks to CIP reporting and process overview dashboards — all accessible via Cybertrol’s integrated automation systems and enterprise data solutions.

Traceability, Packaging Integration & MES Connectivity

Cybertrol supports digital thread initiatives that connect plant-floor production data with business systems. That includes MES and ERP integration, material consumption tracking, finished goods reporting, and end-of-line packaging and labeling workflows through solutions like PalletWorks®.

  • Improved production and inventory synchronization

  • Better traceability across process and packaging operations

  • Stronger integration between OT and enterprise systems

  • More accurate reporting from batch through finished goods

  • Better support for future digital transformation initiatives

Find out how a modern MES can improve plant performance →

Secure OT Infrastructure for Modern Dairy Operations

Reliable plantwide automation depends on the right foundation. Cybertrol designs and supports OT networking, segmentation, firewall architecture, and industrial DMZ strategies that improve reliability, security, and scalability while supporting the data flow needed for reporting and enterprise integration.

  • Better separation between IT and OT environments

  • Improved network reliability and performance

  • Safer enterprise connectivity

  • Support for secure remote access and long-term maintainability

  • Stronger foundation for future reporting and cloud initiatives

Explore OT infrastructure solutions →

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