Seed Processing & Agriculture Automation
Reliable controls, sequencing, monitoring, and support for seed treatment, grain handling, drying, and storage operations.
Britton Electronics & Automation, Inc. designs, builds, programs, and supports automation systems for seed processing, grain handling, treatment lines, drying systems, and storage facilities throughout Illinois and the Midwest.
Agricultural processing facilities operate within tight seasonal windows. BEA develops practical control systems that help facilities move material reliably, maintain treatment consistency, monitor storage conditions, and respond quickly when production problems occur.
Seed Treatment & Processing Control
Seed treatment systems require repeatable control of product flow, chemical application, mixing, weighing, timing, and transfer. BEA develops PLC and HMI systems that coordinate treatment equipment while giving operators clear control over recipes, equipment status, and production conditions.
Systems can include recipe selection, batch tracking, permissives, pump and valve control, treatment-rate adjustment, alarm handling, and production records.
Product recipes, treatment rates, sequence control, batch timing, verification, and production records.
Pump control, flow pacing, tank monitoring, permissives, valve control, and application-rate adjustment.
HMI screens, equipment status, alarms, production totals, trends, diagnostics, and operator controls.
Highlights: Recipe management • Batch sequencing • Chemical feed • Treatment rates • Production tracking • Alarm history
Grain Handling, Conveying & Material Transfer
Grain and seed movement often depends on conveyors, bucket elevators, distributors, gates, diverters, and storage bins operating in the correct sequence. BEA develops control systems that coordinate this equipment and prevent unsafe or incorrect material routing.
Interlocks, equipment permissives, plug detection, motor monitoring, route selection, and shutdown sequencing help protect equipment and reduce material-handling problems.
Startup sequencing, shutdown timing, interlocks, speed monitoring, plug detection, and motor protection.
Distributor control, gate positioning, diverter status, route verification, and destination selection.
Motor starters, VFDs, current monitoring, speed control, diagnostics, and coordinated equipment operation.
Highlights: Conveyors • Bucket elevators • Distributor control • Bin routing • Plug detection • VFD integration
Drying, Storage & Condition Monitoring
Drying and storage systems depend on accurate temperature, moisture, airflow, and bin-level information. BEA integrates instruments and controls that help operators monitor stored product and manage drying equipment from one coordinated system.
Historical trends, alarm limits, fan status, burner operation, level indication, and storage conditions can be displayed through the HMI or SCADA system.
Temperature control, burner status, fan operation, moisture monitoring, permissives, and shutdown alarms.
Level indication, temperature cables, aeration fan control, inventory status, and high-level alarms.
Moisture, temperature, equipment runtimes, alarm history, dryer performance, and storage-condition records.
Highlights: Dryers • Bin levels • Moisture monitoring • Temperature monitoring • Aeration fans • Historical trends
Dust, Equipment Protection & Reliable Control
Seed and grain facilities expose controls to dust, vibration, temperature changes, and demanding seasonal use. BEA selects enclosures, components, wiring methods, and control strategies appropriate for the operating environment.
Equipment protection and clear fault diagnostics are built into the control system so operators can identify problems quickly and reduce unnecessary downtime.
Enclosure selection, environmental protection, heat management, field wiring, documentation, and maintainable layouts.
Plug switches, zero-speed detection, bearing temperature, overloads, vibration status, and shutdown interlocks.
Equipment faults, process alarms, operator notification, event history, remote alerts, and troubleshooting information.
Highlights: Dust-rated enclosures • Plug switches • Zero-speed detection • Bearing temperature • Motor protection • Alarm history
Seasonal Startup, Modernization & Field Support
Seasonal processing leaves little room for startup problems. BEA helps facilities prepare control systems before production begins and provides field support when equipment or automation problems threaten critical operating windows.
Control review, communications checks, instrument verification, alarm testing, and equipment sequencing.
Obsolete PLC replacement, HMI upgrades, network improvements, drive integration, and phased control updates.
Field testing, equipment verification, sequence checks, operator training, troubleshooting, and production startup.
Rapid diagnostics, program support, drive troubleshooting, communications repair, and production-critical service.
Highlights: Preseason testing • PLC upgrades • HMI modernization • VFD startup • Field commissioning • Emergency service
Ready to prepare your seed or grain facility for the next season?
From treatment-line controls and conveyor upgrades to preseason inspections and emergency troubleshooting, BEA plans around your production schedule.