Success Stories
Food and Beverage
Digital transformation for profitable, safe, sustainable and last but certainly not least, traceable.
Thrive in a changing environment and maximize business value with cutting-edge information management, digital twins, analytics and visualization software.
Challenges
Poor traceability caused by manual tracking of products in paper-based sheets.
Losses and quality metrics far from perfect. Many inspections needed to verify the quality of products.
Desire to gain more insight with new reports, which are difficult to make due to paper-based data and the sheer size of said data,
Results
Reduced product quality traceability time from four hours to only one minute.
The plant achieved “100% First-Time Quality” - indicates that products are manufactured correctly the first time.
"There were about 40 reports per day, which included raw material receiving, processing control sheets, filling and packaging, as well as cleaning operation control sheets"
Software
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AVEVA™ Manufacturig Execution System Operations
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AVEVA™ System Platform as SCADA and to bring together the assets.
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AVEVA™ Historian to aggregate real-time data as well as local dashboarding.
After the Nexus II implementation, it is very convenient to summarize and consolidate the plant data. We are now able to collect product traceability information for both the upstream and downstream functions of our process in real time.
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Sitthichai Sribunyapirat
F&N production manager
Challenges
Lack of real-time information on unscheduled downtimes and slowdowns at various equipment areas
Management needed to address gaps in methods and processes to drive improvements in several areas across all facilities.
Multiple facilities at different stages of digital transformation - desire to ensure consistent quality between breweries
Results
Decreased downtime by more than 50%. Efficiency up by 10%, OEE up from 45% to 65% in just over two years
Record production weeks: 190 to 200,000 cases consistently. Extended packaging capacity to about 1.3 million barrels each year.
Ensured all breweries produce 100%
flavor-matched beers, meeting their goals and customer expectations.,
Software
AVEVA™ Operations Control with:
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AVEVA™ System Platform as SCADA and to bring together the assets.
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AVEVA™ Historian to aggregate real-time data as well as local dashboarding.
AVEVA’s MES, coupled with New Belgium’s continuous improvement strategy, has increased our packaging line efficiency by 30%, saving us more than $400,000 annually in previously planned labor expenditures [...] and our packaging area capacity to about 1.3 million barrels each year. At this point, our approach to higher volumes is ‘bring it on’.
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Joe Herrick
Packaging Systems Manager, New Belgium Brewing