Kornmühle Sachseln AG, Sachseln, Switzerland

The new Korn­müh­le Sach­seln AG buil­ding is a grain pro­ces­sing faci­li­ty desi­gned for effi­ci­en­cy, trans­pa­ren­cy, and future via­bi­li­ty. The mill pro­ces­ses up to 1,000 kg of wheat or 700 kg of spelt per hour. Schmid Auto­ma­ti­on was invol­ved in this pro­ject from the initi­al con­cept to commissioning.

The par­ti­cu­lar chall­enge was to equip a small mill with a tech­ni­cal­ly high-qua­li­ty and at the same time eco­no­mic­al­ly via­ble solu­ti­on. The aim was to achie­ve end-to-end auto­ma­ti­on and digi­ta­lizati­on of the pro­ces­ses – from recep­ti­on, black and white clea­ning, and grin­ding to the pro­ces­sing of the finis­hed pro­ducts with mixing, bag­ging, and loading.

A cen­tral ele­ment is com­pre­hen­si­ve data eva­lua­ti­on with pro­duct tracea­bi­li­ty, mixing pro­to­cols, sto­rage infor­ma­ti­on, and yield ana­ly­sis. The­se func­tions enable trans­pa­rent ope­ra­tio­nal manage­ment and crea­te the basis for tar­ge­ted opti­mizati­ons and audits.

Plant type

Flour mill

Project execution

2025

Project scope

• Con­cept design and consulting
• Elec­tri­cal engineering
• Func­tion­al Design Specification
• Soft­ware programming
• Pro­ject engi­nee­ring of visualisation
• Pro­ject engi­nee­ring Data analysis
• Switch­gear and con­trol system
• Signal test and start-up
• Ope­ra­tor training

Project scope

• 1’100 data points
• 3 MCC
• 4 local cabinets
• 1 Ope­ra­ting station
• 1 Ser­ver as emer­gen­cy ser­vice station

Technology applied

• auto­ma­ti­onX
• Schmid­Ana­ly­tics (powered by Qlik)
• PROFINET
• EPlan P8

Contact

Mar­cel Fust, Head of Con­cept Design & Con­sul­ting, Schmid Auto­ma­ti­on AG