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Food Processing Packaging Food Safety

Washdown, cold, and hygiene zones that dictate the hardware

Food plants are washed down with caustics at pressure, run cold or hot, and separate raw from ready-to-eat with hygiene boundaries that people and equipment must respect. Standard commercial hardware fails here quickly and can become a contamination risk. DWG helps plants specify what belongs.

Hygienic design is the constraint

Enclosure material, ingress rating and mounting method are decided by the sanitation regime, not by preference — and getting them wrong creates a food safety problem, not just a maintenance one.

We evaluate equipment against washdown and hygiene requirements zone by zone, specify materials and mountings appropriate to sanitation, review bills of materials for production, cold storage, dock and office separately, and confirm access control can enforce hygiene boundaries. How the work gets done is shaped around you: we can coordinate with the integrator or contractor you already use, bring the right integration and field resources in ourselves, or anything in between — whatever the project needs.

How we engage

The greatest opportunity to improve a project exists before anything is purchased. We support every phase — the earlier we're involved, the more value we add.

1. Plan

Requirements, constraints, budget and timing.

2. Evaluate

Comparison across manufacturers, integration with what's installed, cybersecurity review.

3. Specify

Specification assistance, BOM review, value engineering, lifecycle costing.

4. Procure

Quoting, availability, lead times and supply-chain flags.

5. Deploy

Coordinated delivery and deployment, with the resources managed as one project.

6. Support

Technical support, spares and refresh planning.

Core capabilities

Enterprise physical security infrastructure across every major discipline.

Video surveillance

  • IP camera systems
  • Video management systems (VMS)
  • Network video recorders
  • Edge, cloud and enterprise storage

AI & video analytics

  • Object and behaviour detection
  • License plate recognition
  • Search and forensic review tools
  • Operational and business insight

Access control & identity

  • Enterprise access control platforms
  • Smart and mobile credentials
  • Door hardware and locking
  • Authentication and biometrics

Visitor management

  • Visitor registration and badging
  • Watch list and screening
  • Contractor and vendor check-in
  • Real-time on-site awareness

Intercom & entry communication

  • IP intercom systems
  • Video entry stations
  • Emergency call stations
  • Two-way communication at entry points

Emergency notification

  • Mass notification systems
  • Public address and paging
  • Multi-channel alerting
  • Campus and site-wide communication

Lockdown systems

  • Coordinated building-wide lockdown
  • Single-action activation
  • Integration with access control
  • Notification tied to activation

Fire & life safety

  • Fire alarm control panels
  • Smoke, heat, CO and duct detection
  • Notification appliances
  • Alarm communications and monitoring

Intrusion detection

  • Enterprise intrusion systems
  • Perimeter detection
  • Sensors and detection technologies
  • Alarm communications

Mobile & temporary surveillance

  • Mobile surveillance trailers
  • Rapid-deployment camera systems
  • Remote and off-grid power
  • Construction, event and temporary sites

Network & infrastructure

  • PoE switching and fiber optics
  • Structured cabling and wireless
  • UPS and power systems
  • Cabinets, racks and enclosures

Engineering & procurement services

  • Product evaluation and solution design
  • Multi-manufacturer comparisons
  • Bill of materials review and value engineering
  • Lifecycle planning and technical consultation

Questions we help you answer

Most suppliers focus on selling products. We focus on helping you make an informed decision — and these are the questions worth settling first.

  • Will this survive our sanitation regime?
  • Is the enclosure material appropriate for a food zone?
  • Can access control enforce raw versus ready-to-eat boundaries?
  • What covers receiving, dock and waste?
  • How do we handle contractor and visitor entry to production?
  • What's the realistic service life in washdown areas?
  • Can one standard cover our other plants?

Answered early, these prevent the expensive corrections that surface once equipment is on site.

Vendor-neutral technical expertise

DWG works across a broad portfolio of leading security manufacturers. Rather than promoting a single product line, we help you evaluate qualified solutions on the criteria that matter.

Technical criteria

  • Technical requirements and objectives
  • Performance and interoperability
  • Standards compliance
  • Cybersecurity considerations

Commercial criteria

  • Availability and lead time
  • Lifecycle cost
  • Budget alignment
  • Future scalability

Resource coordination

  • Work with the integrator or contractor you already use
  • Bring in integration, field and engineering resources where you need them
  • Product, engineering and deployment coordinated as one project
  • Shaped around what the end user needs, not a fixed model

Who we work with

Facilities

  • Food processing plants
  • Packaging and co-packing
  • Bakeries and dairies
  • Meat and protein processing
  • Beverage production
  • Cold storage within plants

Project types

  • New plant construction
  • Line and area expansion
  • Food safety driven upgrades
  • Dock and receiving projects
  • Analog-to-IP migration
  • Multi-plant standardization

Project teams

  • Plant management
  • Food safety and quality
  • Maintenance and engineering
  • EHS and security
  • Architects and engineers
  • Systems integrators

Confirm the sanitation regime before specifying hardware

There is no cost to have our specialists review a specification, a bill of materials, or a quote.

DWG — Digital Watchguard Inc. · 800 Shames Drive, Westbury, NY 11590 · 516-933-4900


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