Industrial Automation

RDT's intelligent low power RF network used at the Allied Distillers plant in Dumbarton, Scotland brought real time data & control to the distribution chain and the bottling and blending plant.

The system has enabled delivery lead times to be compressed and Allied Distillers has benefited from high speed, paperless identification and data collection.

The system utilises RDT’s synthesised multichannel RF transceiver modules linked to the existing PLCs on the warehouse stacker cranes. This has provided the flexibility of cable less bi-directional transactions between cranes and the computerised stock management system.

The master RDT modems with duplicated back-ups are dedicated to the warehouse operations. Conveyor movements and all radio data commands to the cranes are generated automatically by one of the PCs. These work in tandem, one acting in stand-by mode to ensure integrity of transactions through the back-up  modems.