CLIENT CASE STUDY
A client that operates a high-tech food production plant with complex, interdependent processes has ambitious targets for increasing output. It needs a solid data platform to identify bottlenecks and measure the impact of improvements to their production line.
Data driven plant management
INDUSTRY
Food & Manufacturing
SERVICE
KPI Setting, Analytics, Dashboards
MARKET
Western Europe
THE CHALLENGE
The plant management team had a clear ambition: increase plant output volumes. They even had a strong sense of where the opportunities lay. But without reliable data, they couldn't substantiate their ideas, prioritize investments, or measure whether improvements were actually working.
Decisions were being made largely on experience and intuition. In a high-tech production environment, the cost of getting those decisions wrong can be high.
The right instincts, without the data to back them up
WHAT WE DID
Follow the data through the production line
Our consulting team started by mapping the key stages and dependencies in the production process, and identifying what data the machines were already generating. From there, we built a layer of automated insights that operational managers could act on.
Analysed production line stages, machine data and interdependencies
Developed dashboards covering line performance, downtime and quality sampling
Added machine settings visibility to help pinpoint the cause of issues
Enabled bottleneck identification and direct measurement of improvement impact
Where possible, the insights are refreshed multiple times a day to give plant managers and operational staff a live view of the plant performance.
THE RESULTS
What a data driven production plant looks like in practice
50
automated reports covering all areas of the production process
100+
hours of downtime prevented each year
20+
active users relying on the data platform daily