Project Outline
The Vbites site in Corby Northampton is a food manufacturing facility specialising in plat based, vegan foods. This industrial site is based around a main production building with supporting logistics, warehousing and offices. Tannoy / Public Address (PA) – Our customer required a sound system solution to provide a means of communication between the office staff and the production management team within the protected ‘high care’ food production areas and production lines. Background music (radio) was required throughout the production areas to offset the ‘drone’ of the production noise and to improve the overall mood / ambiance. Priority audio playout was also required to indicate shift change and break times.
Food manufacturing sound system system installation works require special consideration, particularly with ‘open product’ mitigating any possibility of contamination with the production process and food product. Working with the production manager and local site maintenance team, we were able to carry out much of the main food manufacturing sound system installation works without disturbing or restricting production (a large percentage of our works were carried out in the roof void above the production areas).
Audio Applications
- Public Address (PA) / Tannoy
- Radio Back Ground Music (BGM)
- Shift / Break change message playout
Audio Specification & Technologies
- 100v line, high impedance
- DAB radio tuner
- Audio message player
Installation Details
Utilising the main roof void above much of the production facility, we installed all of the distribution 100v line cabling. Stainless steel containment was used throughout any of our lower production room installation – conduit used to contain cables to speaker points at high levels.
Full frequency range, 2-way music speakers were installed throughout to provide best possible audio quality and audibility. Speakers were strategically positioned to provide best results against high level ambient noise levels.
A ‘keep it simple’ pro audio DAB radio tuner was installed to provide radio input.
A traditional MP3 audio store & playback device was used to provide shift change and breaks audio playout. Partnering with this device, we installed a specialist programmable timer with user LCD display – to provide user controlled time based scheduling and trigger for message playback.
