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 foundation to identify bottlenecks and measure impact of investments in 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, prioritise investments, or measure whether improvements were actually working.
Decisions were being made primarily on experience and intuition. In a high-tech production environment, that's a risk.
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 per day to give plant managers and operational staff a live view on 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 every year
20+
Active users relying on the data platform daily