$2M
saved per year - one plant
- 15% of its operating budget
Case Studies / Food & Beverage
$2M a year, from data they already owned
A food and beverage manufacturer
~$2M/yr
saved off the operating budget
~15%
reduction at one site
Same data
they were already collecting
The challenge
A large food and beverage manufacturer was collecting plenty of data, but much of it went unused. Processes and equipment that were not well understood often sat idle, and the plant had no easy way to turn what it already had into decisions that could move the operating budget.
What we did
Industrial Insight built the data and analysis tools that put that information to work: contextualization in the PI System, plus PI AF analytics, PI Event Frames, dashboards in both PI Vision and Power BI, and alerting via PI Notifications. The goal was Manufacturing Intelligence the team could use to identify, prevent, and solve problems.
The result
Functions that used to be a mystery became usable by the people on the floor, driving real physical changes and cost reductions across the operation. The payoff showed up straight on the operating budget, all from data the plant already owned.
"One site has saved around 15 percent, roughly two million dollars per year, off its operating budget with the use of the tools."
Operations leadership, food and beverage manufacturer