EcoStruxure Clean-In-Place Advisor

Find how to save half an hour cleaning

on one given process equipment.

Combining their strengths to

shorter cleaning time
operations

Zoom on a specific project

Context Customer Challenges

• Large dairy customer based in Russia
• producing 1,5 thousand tons of finished
product per day!
• Having each year around 2500 cleanings
per CIP line
• Scope of the project: 2 plants; 5 CIP
stations; 16 lines
• Need to reduce cleaning time.
• Need to improve traceability (what has
been cleaned, when, how much, how
long…)
• Need to reduce CIP consumptions and
identify cleaning deviations
• Need to have scalable and easy to move
solution

Schneider Electric has leveraged a specific solution:

EcoStruxure Clean-In-Place Advisor composed of
software (OptiCIP) and advanced services while
partnering with Satron Instrument to equip the plants
with accurate turbidity meters all connected to
Schneider Electric system.

Author: Thomas Filloque thomas.filloque@se.com

Contributor: Jasper Mol jasper.mol@satron.com
Date: 28/03/2019
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Overview of the solution EcoStruxure Clean-In-Place Advisor (CIP Advisor):
Our CIP Advisor solution is based on 3 scalable pillars: onsite audit with the expertise and experience of
our consultants in CIP installations, a comprehensive and easy to use software tool which can be
implemented in a matter of days, and the know-how and knowledge transfer of our expert in fine-tuning
CIP operations.

Walkthrough audit

1. Check conformity
with best practices
on both Energy,
Automation and
Process part;
2. Highlight the positive
elements and do some
recommendations of
improvement when
there is a gap between
installation and best
practices;

Turbidity sensors: from sizing of a portable and reusable solution to onsite installation

Before

After Satron VOM Optical

Sensor

• The Satron VOM optical

sensor works according the
backscattering principle with
the use of LED technology.
• The Hygienic approved sensor
Turbidity sensors: principle picture
receives the scattered light
back from the process media.
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OptiCIP Installation

Corporate Network
Server with 2

RDP via Internet

RDP Connection

RDP Connection
communication cards,
SSD 500GB storage –
48GB RAM
Corporate
FireWall Uninterruptable Power
Supply (UPS)
Corporate Laptop and screen SE Laptop for SMT1500RMI2U,
(without OptiCIP installation) commisionning
and maintenance from SE APC Smart-
UPS 1500 VA
Provided by SE

Server hosting PC client hosting:

Windows server 2016 : OptiCIP Viewer
OPC Server (KepWare)
OptiCIP Acquisition program
Windows 10 with 2 RDP connections OptiCIP Client
SQL Express DataBase
Minimum 2 Communication Cards
Windows 10
Host OptiCIP Viewer

PLC Network

CIP1 – 4 Lines
CIP2 – 2 Lines PLC PLC CIP 3 - 4 Lines

OptiCIP User Interface

• OptiCIP collects every single piece

of information needed to document
evidence of proper cleaning and to
detect causes of waste in water,
chemical products or energy as
well as production lost
opportunities.

• OptiCIP provides to the users all

the features allowing to eradicate
losses, reduce unnecessary
consumption, ensure effectiveness
of cleaning while reducing overall
cleaning time.

OptiCIP data analysis

• Redaction of a Detailed
cleaning analysis report,
including findings and
recommendations, expected
savings and prioritization of
actions to be implemented;

Restitution and training

• Training of the operators to
make them 100%
autonomous with OptiCIP,
and sharing our expertise on
data analysis
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Focus on turbidity trends analysis (Object studied here is Pasteurizer)

Return
13min 12min 10min 10min 11min 16min
conductivity

A B C

Return
turbidity

White Waters
turbidity pattern
Time loop

A B C

• Total duration of first rinse is
presently set at 25mins.
According to the turbidity
measurement only the first
13mins are impactful to
remove/evacuate organic food
present in the pipes.
• The last 12mins seem of no
use to remove further organic
materials.
• Total duration of intermediate
rinse is presently set at
20mins. Turbidity signal shows
that there is no organic food
pollution during this period
• According to us this
intermediate rinse is so far too
long, the two chemical phases
are well separated with proper
conductivity drop, so in this
case intermediate rinse can
easily be shorted by half or
even more.
• According to us this final rinse is
too long. The first 10mins are
useful to push and recover acid in
return pipe.
• As a best practice a final rinse
duration of 3 times the Time Loop
is enough (first time loop duration
to push previous phase, the two
others as security).
• In this example, 15mins final
rinse including security should be
enough, other 12min could be
saved.
•

 As explained in more details in Schneider Electric methodology, recipe modification must be done on iterative manner,
with manual sample and validation from quality people.

Time saving opportunities

3 main duration savings have been identified on A total of 34mins could be saved on this CIP.
this cleaning:
Knowing that this cleaning is performed around
1) On pre-rinse phase: 12mins
500 times a year, it’s about 280h of cleaning time
2) On Intermediate rinse phase: 10mins
(and associated water consumption) that could be
3) On final rinse phase: 12min
saved and given to the production each year.

Thanks to the use of Satron Turbidity meters together with Schneider Electric CIP Advisor
Solution, now you know how to save half an hour cleaning time on your CIP !

Remember, this is only for 1 equipment, think about how many of them you have in your factory…

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