In the modern industrial landscape, managing explosion risks is a critical challenge that demands high-level technical skills and customized solutions.

SMI Zanocco stands out as a leading expert in this field, offering specialized technical consulting services that ensure safety and continuous production for its clients.

Technical Consulting for Explosion Risk Management

SMI Zanocco’s consulting service is characterized by a collaborative and integrated approach. Working closely with the clients’ technologists, SMI Zanocco’s experts delve into the specific production process to define the correct area classification according to ATEX standards. This step is essential for conducting an accurate and detailed explosion risk assessment.

The safety architecture definition is carried out in close cooperation with the client’s process engineers. This approach allows for precise evaluation of the impacts on the production cycle, ensuring that the proposed solutions are perfectly integrated with the business operations.

Design of Prevention and Protection Systems

SMI Zanocco is renowned for designing tailor-made prevention and protection systems. By coordinating various available technologies – prevention systems, passive and active protection systems – SMI Zanocco creates “tailor-made” solutions that meet each client’s specific needs.

Implementation and Upgrading of Explosion-Proof Systems

The highly specialized engineering team at SMI Zanocco is capable of offering:

• Implementation of new explosion-proof systems: From design to commissioning, including necessary adjustments or expansions to ensure maximum safety.
• Post-explosion solutions: In the event of an explosion, SMI Zanocco swiftly intervenes to eliminate collateral effects, minimize downtime, and reduce production loss and damage to people and property.
• Customized solutions: Personalized projects for various types of plants, aimed at preventing anticipated events, containing explosions, and isolating them with bespoke systems.

Expertise and Professionalism in Service of Safety

SMI Zanocco’s excellence is rooted in the competence and professionalism of its team. With highly specialized training and extensive experience in the sector, SMI Zanocco’s engineers can tackle and solve the most complex challenges in explosion risk management. This enables clients to operate in a safe environment that complies with current regulations while ensuring efficiency and productivity.

In conclusion, SMI Zanocco is a guarantee of safety and reliability for all companies needing advanced solutions in explosion risk management. Thanks to its high-level technical consulting, SMI Zanocco provides customized solutions for the safeguard the people and for the productive plants.

The request for action was made by the client with the goal of ensuring maximum operational safety of its productions. To meet these requirements, Zanocco SMI sent its own specialized technician to Brazil to carry out the necessary plant improvements.

The new plant consists of advanced fire detection and prevention systems; these systems are designed to promptly identify any anomalies, such as overheating or fire starts, and take immediate mitigating measures.

With such state-of-the-art devices, the client can now enjoy complete operational peace of mind, knowing that they have adopted best safety practices and minimized the risk of fire.

The collaboration between Zanocco SMI and the client represents an important step forward in the food industry, highlighting the company’s focus on providing customized, state-of-the-art solutions for plant safety.

Zanocco SMI’s priority has always been to ensure the protection of its customers’ people, property and assets while maintaining high standards of quality and regulatory compliance.

Thanks to Zanocco SMI’s intervention, the chocolate spread manufacturer can now focus on the production and distribution of its products, trusting the robustness and efficiency of its roasting plant.

Zanocco SMI will continue to work diligently to offer innovative and safe solutions to its customers in the food and related industries, establishing itself as a benchmark in the field of industrial plant safety.

For an important customer in the braking systems sector, Zanocco SMI’s team of technicians was involved in the installation of numerous industrial automation solutions to make the production lines more efficient and effective.

Zanocco SMI supported the customer by assisting him in the entirety of the project.

From the design and drafting of the company layout, to the creation of all the components up to the transport and installation of industrial automation developed on the specific needs of the customer.

The transversal skills of our team have made it possible to identify and create the most suitable solutions to increase the productivity and efficiency of a production line of braking systems.

In addition to the high technical-specific know-how, the members of our team have adequate linguistic competence that allows us to operate all over the world, being able to interface with all the operators involved in the implementation of the project.

We were contacted by Mitsubishi Electric as they needed to move to a new headquarters where the new showroom for the presentation of their products would be built.

Zanocco SMI has recently built and installed a new scada system for this important customer.

The Scada is the acronym for “Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition”, more specifically it is a distributed computer system for monitoring and supervision of physical systems. It is a technology in constant evolution, hand in hand with the progress of electronics, information technology and telecommunication networks, mainly used in the industrial and infrastructural fields.

For all production companies that want a top system, Zanocco SMI SRL offers industrial plants with cutting-edge technologies depending on the type of business, providing the most appropriate solutions to business needs.

In the field of industrial automation, Zanocco SMI Sicurezza e Automazione SRL designs, manufactures and carries out the commissioning of automation systems (assembly, handling, testing, functional checks …) thanks to a team of highly specialized System Integrators (SI) technicians , able to manage complex automatic systems, with the help of modern technologies, to meet the specific requests made by the customer who wants to improve the production cycle of his company and is interested in operating in the world of the fourth industrial revolution by digitizing his company.

For the construction and development of its automations Zanocco SMI SRL is System Integrators of Mitsubishi Electric products and devices.

Zanocco SMI SRL is also able to develop software (on PLC, HMI, customized SCADA platforms, robot software) for industrial automation and process controls in general, evaluating the resources necessary to manage the application, proposing different configurations to obtain the best result. and using state-of-the-art equipment to easily connect and integrate with any measurement and control device around the world and to transmit information to local or remote clients.

Zanocco SMI is highly specialized in preventing and / or containing the risk of powder explosions in the bakery, pastry, chocolate and pasta sectors.

We develop safety solutions for storage, pneumatic conveying and dosing systems for flour and sugars.

We are able to prevent the risks from explosive atmospheres, i.e. mixtures in the air of flammable substances in the state of gas, vapors, mists and / or dusts at atmospheric conditions.

We are well aware that this risk is present in the bakery sector due to the presence of combustible powders created, for example, by wheat flour or sugar.

In fact, the powders of natural organic substances, “such as wheat flour and sugar, are combustible and can give rise to both fires and explosions”.

The main substances from which the risk of explosion derives in the companies of the sector are made up of: natural gas (methane) for feeding cooking ovens for food products; wheat flour; sugar.

It is precisely the latter that generate the possibility of forming explosive atmospheres and the sensitivity to ignition sources is greater the smaller the average size of the particles.

Dust explosions are perhaps as common as those caused by flammable vapors or gases, but just as dangerous because they can damage machinery, materials and products or, worse, endanger the life of the personnel working in the plant.