Case Study
Control Network Upgrade Delivers Increased Performance And Availability At Irish Distillers’ Middleton Plant
Control Network Upgrade Delivers Increased Performance And Availability At Irish Distillers’ Middleton Plant
TECHNOLOGY TODAY The Midleton distillery was opened in 1975 as further ex- pansion of the Jameson and Powers original distilleries. Effectively combining a number of distilleries into one, the Midleton plant is a complex and sophisticated opera- tion. Indeed it is a measure of the complexity of the op- erations at Midleton that Irish Distillers had begun to find its existing fibre-optic based network too slow and cum- bersome to suit its producti