From a May 2010 ARC Advisory Group report
Keystone Foods new meat-processing facility in Gadsden, Alabama received Food Engineering's 2010 Plant of the Year Award. It is quite impressive how this new plant incorporated food safety into every aspect of the physical plant design, work procedures, and automated control and monitoring systems. It has the most streamlined control architecture in the company's global network of 54 facilities, including 18 processing sites. It includes 89 cameras, most of which serve a bio-security and quality assurance function. A Siemens Simatic IT system manages production, while InfinityQS SPC is the heart of its quality control system.
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