Manufacturing
From gut feel to data-driven plant management
A high-tech food plant needed more output but couldn’t see its bottlenecks, or measure the effect of fixes.
Client
Food production plant
Industry
Manufacturing
Service
KPI Setting, Analytics, Dashboards
Stack
Databricks, Synapse, Power BI
Market
Western Europe
The challenge
The right instincts, without the data to back them up
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 approach
Follow the data through the production line
Our consultants mapped the production process and connected existing machine data to the right KPIs. From there, they built a layer of automated insights that operational managers could act on immediately. This resulted in:
Dashboards covering line performance, downtime and quality, accessible to everyone on the floor
Visibility into machine settings to quickly pinpoint the root cause of issues
Direct measurement of the impact of every improvement made to the line
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
Is everyone in your company looking at different numbers?
Let’s change that.