Mataura Valley Milk: Customer Story Key Figures
20% faster time to market
Cost-effective power
Connected and integrated facility
Building the world's best nutritional plant to meet growing market demand requires connectivity and flexibility.
The Challenge
To build the world’s best nutritional plant, Mataura Valley Milk needed:
- the ability to quickly adapt and tailor products and production to meet market demands
- tracking and tracing from farm to facility
- process batching
- to maintain power supply integrity
The Solution
Apps, Analytics and Services: AVEVA software*: System Platform, Batch Management, Manufacturing Execution System, and expert servicesEdge Control: Modicon M580 and M340 PLCsConnected Products: Altivar ATV 630 and 660 drives, AccuSine harmonic filters, iMCC, switchgear, power metering, and TeSys U
- Bespoke integrated electrical and automation systems – based on EcoStruxure Plant and Power – tailored for the customer and standardised across the entire facility: from milk reception to dryer process, standardising the process, wet mix, boiler, water treatment plant, wastewater treatment, refrigeration, etc.
- Integrated AVEVA industrial software for batching, traceability, and seamless dataflow across the complex manufacturing process
- Strong service support
The Results
The EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage solution provided a connected and scalable backbone for Mataura Valley Milk's state-of-the-art plant with:
- Visibility of real-time data on every process for informed decision making
- Compliance with stringent standards (harmonic distortion levels)
- Ease and flexibility to increase product portfolio and volume to meet growing demand
- Reduced OpEx budgets compared to conventional systems
- Cleaner and more cost-effective power
Paddy Mc Myler, General Manager, Mataura Valley Milk
Customer Testimonial
"The EcoStruxure solution delivers connectivity across all business layers. It enables us to clearly interrogate data in the MES, which ensures we can make information-based decisions every day.”
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New Zealand's Mataura Valley Milk sought to build the world's best nutritional plant that could tailor production to customer requirements and deliver the highest quality products. Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IIoT solutions provide Mataura Valley Milk with an open and connected system architecture that enhances the efficiency, reliability, safety, sustainability, and connectivity of its infrastructure.