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Building the world’s best nutritional business

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Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
  • Pacific
Country
  • New Zealand
Product
  • EcoStruxure Plant
  • AVEVA’s System Platform
  • AVEVA’s Batch Management
  • AVEVA’s Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software
  • Modicon M580 Ethernet programmable automation controllers
Tech Stack
  • IoT
  • Real-time data analytics
  • Ethernet programmable automation controllers
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Brand Awareness
  • Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
  • Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
  • Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Track & Trace of Assets
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
  • System Integration
  • Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
Operational Impact
  • 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.
  • The company can remain innovative, agile, and versatile by confidently making decisions based on live data it knows can be trusted.
  • The solution provides complete transparency and trust for suppliers and customers.
  • The visibility also contributes to the innovation programme and delivers great value in terms of R&D and process efficiencies.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 20% faster time to market

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