The global market leader in CPG & food manufacturing sets up various green field facilities for manufacturing of various Consumer products with Best in class technology for Batch & Continuous Process Automation resulting in faster time to market manufacturing large product variants.
Challenge
- Due to fast changing consumer needs plant expected system to configure & retune in shortest time to gain the Market share
- Product quality being critical highly accurate dosing system required.
- Production is Campaign based with short batch cycle time
- Seamless integration of Up-stream batch process & down-stream continuous process equipment’s (Packing lines etc.)
- Auto batch records for regulatory compliances
Solution
- Rockwell Process Automation system with Ethernet DLR as Network
- High end flexible Recipe management system based on specialized package enabling on the fly change of recipes
- Special software features to ensure consistently accurate dosing of ingredients
- Special techniques like look ahead batching to decrease the batch cycle time beyond the standard expected batch cycle times
- Software developed for seamless integration of up-stream and down stream process equipment’s resulting in optimum utilization of plant assets
Result
- Quick go-to market time after product changeover enabling customer to leverage the 1st mover advantage and increase the market share & maintain the leadership
- Highly optimum utilization of plant assets
- Consistent and accurate product quality resulted in less recycle and wastage of raw material, packaging material, Utilities etc.
- Highly accurate batch recording & reporting system