Global Pet Food Processor Improves Quality and Yield

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$ 0.01

Savings per case on one SKU

$ 200,000

Savings per year on one SKU in one plant

QUALITY

Increased via greater visibility

Customer Information

Introduction

Company

Global Pet Food Processor

Industry

Food & Beverage/Consumer Products

Products

iFIX, Proficy Historian for Cloud, Cloud MES, Proficy Plant Applications, HMI/SCADA, MES - Manufacturing Execution Systems, Proficy Industrial Software, Data Historian

Challenges

  • Multi-plant manufacturer with lack of tools to understand what was happening on the plant floor
  • Quality data entered on spreadsheets and operator logs leading to information gaps and errors
  • Opportunity to improve system quality and efficiency
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A savings of $200,000 helped this global pet food processor increase profits.
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Operators now make decisions based on real-time data to help manufacturing food for hungry four legged friends.

Results

  • Operators able to make decisions based on real-time data and input information at the point of production
  • Increased uptime, reliability and productivity
  • Visibility to quality data by SKU enabled formula adjustments that resulted in cost savings of $0.01 per case on one SKU
  • The ability to make data driven process adjustments resulted in a cost reduction of more than $200,000 per year on one SKU in one plant
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