Development of a Complex Automation System for Food Industry Enterprises

Abstract

Many enterprises of the food industry in Russia still use disparate autonomous information systems that solve, in most cases, local accounting tasks. In spite of the fact that technological processes can be automated at the same time, the enterprise under such conditions does not work efficiently. One of the ways to increase efficiency is the development and implementation of a comprehensive automation system. With this approach, all processes of the enterprise are automated systematically and completely. A fundamental part of the system of complex automation is the integrated information management system (IIMS). For food industry enterprises, it seems advisable to use the existing deployed infrastructure based on the 1C: Enterprise platform for developing and implementing a complex automation system of the IIMS class. This will make it possible to focus on solving problems related to the subject area without having to deal with low-level issues of interaction with the DBMS, the development of an access control subsystem, own application server in case of using a three-tier architecture. Introduction of the system of complex automation developed by the authors «RIF Ltd» allowed this fish processing enterprise to apply the concept of «from farm to counter» when managing business processes of a full cycle of processing products - from the incubation of fish eggs of valuable species to the sale of finished products in its own store and retail networks. The cost of the developed solution is, on average, two times lower than the analogues present on the market, while it is not inferior to them in versatility, manufacturability, reliability, and productivity. During the development, a focus was put on the use of software and hardware for domestic development, and also the development of the China. Based on the results of the pilot operation of the decision, the management of the enterprise noted an increase in the efficiency of work in the integration of business processes, personnel and production discipline, saving time due to ease of use.