Ensuring Your Facility’s Quality, Safety, and Efficiency

food and beverage electrical services

We are leaders in providing complete electrical systems in food production plants.

The food and beverage industry is constantly changing to keep pace with consumers’ demands for safety, variety, convenience, and low prices. California Electrical Services will design, install, monitor, integrate, automate and maintain the electrical components of your production lines to ensure that your facility runs at peak efficiency at all times.

CES has the expertise and experience to help you achieve your goals, whether you want to build a new facility, modernize an existing facility, integrate systems or install monitoring systems to track efficiency. As a leading process integrator for many food and beverage manufacturers, CES designs and implements processes that help you cut costs, reduce waste, increase output, and ensure product quality and safety.

Our professional electricians and engineers are experienced in every phase of food and beverage manufacturing.

We work with mechanical equipment vendors to configure the controls you need to eliminate interruptions in vital power so you stay competitive. We have provided our comprehensive services to many areas of the food and beverage manufacturing industry:

  • Baked, canned, frozen, and packaged goods
  • Wine, soft drinks, and juices
  • Dairy foods including yogurt, butter, and ice cream

Our capabilities cover every aspect of food and beverage process automation, engineering, and system integration from initial design to fabrication, installation, testing, and startup to operator training.

  • S88-compliant batch processing
  • Filling system design
  • Freezing system design
  • Packaging system design and integration
  • Line efficiency improvement
  • Refrigeration systems and controls
  • Pasteurization and homogenization
  • Cooking controls
  • Bulk material processing
  • Boilers and boiler control systems
  • Container handling systems
  • Clean-in-place systems
  • ERP integration
  • Manufacturing process designs
  • Data acquisition
  • Solid waste and wastewater treatment
  • High- and low-pressure cleaning systems
  • Retort controls
  • Weighing and metering systems
  • Wet and dry blending systems

System Integration and Data Management

CES engineers can incorporate advanced intelligence capabilities into your manufacturing operation. Our knowledge of data management and system integration allows us to manage production data so you receive the intelligence and data you need to increase efficiency and decrease disruptions throughout the manufacturing process.

CES has decades of experience in system integration and enterprise data management in the food and beverage industry. We can create systems to collect, process, analyze, and deliver production data so you can increase productivity, cut costs, and reduce downtime.

We offer the following capabilities and experience:

Planning & Analysis

  • Specification
  • System design
  • Legacy system integration
  • Standards development
  • Software development
    • PLC, HMI, DCS
    • Manufacturing intelligence
    • MES systems
    • SCADA systems
    • Historian
    • Custom

Project Management

  • Documentation
  • Construction installation
  • Fabrication
  • Staging and simulation
  • Employee safety
  • Startup and training
  • System testing/validation
  • Industrial network design
  • Machine vision
  • Combustion technologies

Network Capabilities

CES designs secure industrial control system (ICS) networks for leading food and beverage manufacturers to preserve product safety, ensure operation integrity, and protect intellectual property. Our hardware and software experts can assess your existing network and implement an intelligent, cost-effective plan to upgrade equipment, install updated software, add devices and users, and authorize access.

We offer the following services:

Network

  • Assessment
  • Diagrams
  • Loading
  • Upgrade plan
  • Statistics
  • Architecture
  • Levels and segmentation

Fiber, copper and wireless design

Security evaluation

Performance improvement

Virtualization

Remote access

Access control


Filling and Packaging

Our engineers are qualified to assess your facility’s existing equipment and lines and to make improvements tailored to your products, processes, and proprietary methods. We design and integrate filling and packaging lines that streamline production and increase productivity, eliminate unnecessary steps, and eliminate the need to buy new equipment.

We offer the following capabilities and experience:

Documentation of line requirements

OEM equipment procurement

Critical machines

System “push” and “pull”

Conveyor design

Equipment layout

Electrical system design

Mechanical and control system design

Facility modifications and upgrades

Process system integration

Safety system design

Risk assessment

Reliability design (FMEA)

Line simulation and modeling

EPC system design and installation

Project management

Legacy Systems

Legacy systems aren’t necessarily obsolete. Even if the control system is past its prime, we can replace it while preserving the rest of your equipment, saving you the expense of replacing perfectly usable machinery. We can upgrade existing equipment with modern hardware and software so you can track and record production data, meet FDA standards, maintain plant security, and comply with reporting requirements.

Our engineers will evaluate your current system and design new control systems using existing components, keeping expenses and downtime to a minimum. We will then provide training for your employees in the use of new hardware and software.

Automation Systems
  • Receiving
  • De-palletizing and palletizing
  • Line startups
  • Conveyors
  • Manufacturing and processing
  • Filling systems
  • Bottle handling
  • Packaging and shipping
  • Cold storage
  • Laboratory systems
Automation Projects
  • HMI/MMI software systems
  • PLC configuration and programming
  • Control panel design, fabrication and installation
  • Instrumentation associated with manufacturing & QC
  • LIMS systems
  • Integration with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle & BAAN
Automation Processes
  • Pasteurization and HTST
  • Clean-in-place
  • Ingredient dispensing
  • Sterile biotech systems controls
  • Metal detection
  • Specialty packaging
  • Assistance with FDA validation

CES has provided power and control wiring for most types of systems:

California Electrical Services
  • Ammonia refrigeration systems
  • Motor control and MCCs and VFDs
  • Rotating equipment control, monitoring & sequencing
  • Ammonia compressor sequencing
  • Energy-efficient management
  • Water for injection & deionized water/steam systems
  • HVAC systems
  • Water recovery systems
  • Solar inverter installations & alternative energy systems
  • Lighting and security systems
  • Data centers
  • Emergency backup power systems
  • Waste disposal and recycling systems
  • Office & retail environments & convenience circuits
  • Boilers and ovens
  • ChlorinationvSpecialty equipment skids

We have partnered with hundreds of food and beverage manufacturers during our 30-year history.

Here are just a few:

  • Barilla Group
  • Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
  • General Mills
  • Golden Island Jerky Company
  • Gold Star Foods
  • Kal Kan (Mars Petcare)
  • PepsiCo
  • Sunny Delight Beverages
  • Tyson Foods
  • Veg-Fresh Farms
  • Yoplait

CES understands and has worked with most NEMA-rated environments: hazardous, non-hazardous, indoor, outdoor, etc.