Schneider Electric Case Studies Building the world’s best nutritional business

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Building the world’s best nutritional business

Schneider Electric

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Track & Trace of Assets
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Mataura Valley Milk, a New Zealand dairy company, aimed to build the world’s best nutritional business that could quickly tailor production to specific customer requirements while guaranteeing the delivery of best-in-class quality products. The company wanted to ensure that its plant can consistently manufacture world-class nutritional products with microbial results well below standard requirements. Over 3,300 Aerobic Plate Count tests were performed during the 2018/19 season to identify colony forming units per gram (cfu/g). Mataura Valley Milk’s highest recorded result was a mere 190 cfu/g, with the accepted limit being 5,000 cfu/g, believed to be a first for New Zealand and indicating that the plant’s critical hygiene areas and processes benchmark performance worldwide. Read More
About Customer	Mataura Valley Milk is a New Zealand dairy company that set out to build the world’s best nutritional business in August 2016. Nearly three years later, the company’s milk production plant is an impressive accomplishment that comfortably justifies its early ambition. Employing over 80 staff and partnered with over 20 dairy farmers, Mataura Valley Milk is now benchmarking innovation and performance for other milk plants. Situated in McNab, north of Gore at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, the state-of-the-art facility was delivered on-time and within budget, an impressive achievement for a greenfield project. Read More
Solution	Schneider Electric specified a robust EcoStruxure Plant and Power solution that delivers connectivity across all layers of the operation, minimises energy usage, guarantees power quality, and provides real-time data so that transparency and integrity are maintained across the supply chain, from farm ingredients to manufactured products. The solution delivers and provides context to live, real-time data on every process at the plant through AVEVA’s System Platform, Batch Management and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software. In short, Mataura Valley employees receive any data they require immediately and know they can trust it. The real-time data visibility and connectivity are delivered by Modicon M580 Ethernet programmable automation controllers, part of EcoStruxure’s Edge Control layer. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Track & Trace of Assets

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Mataura Valley Milk, a New Zealand dairy company, aimed to build the world’s best nutritional business that could quickly tailor production to specific customer requirements while guaranteeing the delivery of best-in-class quality products. The company wanted to ensure that its plant can consistently manufacture world-class nutritional products with microbial results well below standard requirements. Over 3,300 Aerobic Plate Count tests were performed during the 2018/19 season to identify colony forming units per gram (cfu/g). Mataura Valley Milk’s highest recorded result was a mere 190 cfu/g, with the accepted limit being 5,000 cfu/g, believed to be a first for New Zealand and indicating that the plant’s critical hygiene areas and processes benchmark performance worldwide.

About Customer

Mataura Valley Milk is a New Zealand dairy company that set out to build the world’s best nutritional business in August 2016. Nearly three years later, the company’s milk production plant is an impressive accomplishment that comfortably justifies its early ambition. Employing over 80 staff and partnered with over 20 dairy farmers, Mataura Valley Milk is now benchmarking innovation and performance for other milk plants. Situated in McNab, north of Gore at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, the state-of-the-art facility was delivered on-time and within budget, an impressive achievement for a greenfield project.

Solution

Schneider Electric specified a robust EcoStruxure Plant and Power solution that delivers connectivity across all layers of the operation, minimises energy usage, guarantees power quality, and provides real-time data so that transparency and integrity are maintained across the supply chain, from farm ingredients to manufactured products. The solution delivers and provides context to live, real-time data on every process at the plant through AVEVA’s System Platform, Batch Management and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software. In short, Mataura Valley employees receive any data they require immediately and know they can trust it. The real-time data visibility and connectivity are delivered by Modicon M580 Ethernet programmable automation controllers, part of EcoStruxure’s Edge Control layer.

Impact #1	A connected and scalable backbone that enables Mataura Valley Milk to seize market opportunities, secure in the quality of its product and the reliability of its infrastructure.
Impact #2	The company can remain innovative, agile, and versatile by confidently making decisions based on live data it knows can be trusted.
Impact #3	The solution provides complete transparency and trust for suppliers and customers.

Impact #1

A connected and scalable backbone that enables Mataura Valley Milk to seize market opportunities, secure in the quality of its product and the reliability of its infrastructure.

Impact #2

The company can remain innovative, agile, and versatile by confidently making decisions based on live data it knows can be trusted.

Impact #3

The solution provides complete transparency and trust for suppliers and customers.

Benefit #1	20% faster time to market

Benefit #1

20% faster time to market

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Building the world’s best nutritional business

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