Digital transformation secures competitiveness
Granado Pharmácias: Customer Story Key Figures
Production increased by up to 15%
Future-proof
Improved quality
Brazil's oldest cosmetics company embraces advanced manufacturing to secure its future.
The Challenge
Granado Pharmácias sought to modernise its factories and production processes to secure the company’s competitive position in the marketplace through:
- Better integration between multiple production lines
- Tailored and flexible production
- Identification of bottlenecks
- Reduction of time to market
- Ensuring end-product quality and consistency
The Solution
Apps Analytics and Services: AVEVA Historian and Batch Management*, Lifecycle Services
Edge Control: Modicon M580 and M340 PLCs, and EcoStruxure Process Expert (with customised library with situational awareness)
Connected Products: Altivar Process LV drives
- The innovative EcoStruxure Process Expert enables control and supervision in the same engineering, maintenance, and operations environment, unifying all devices, components, and accessories into a single tool.
- AVEVA Batch Management controls complex batching processes to further improve operations and production traceability, which helps to ensure consistently high product quality.
- AVEVA Historian stores all the manufacturing data, both historical and real-time, enabling Granado to build and visualise production reports.
The Results
By modernising its systems and processes with an EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage solution, Granado Pharmácias achieved:
- 10-15% increase in production
- Simple and fast reconfiguration for new products
- Better quality products through improved processes and traceability
- Compliance with FDA standards
- Empowered and more efficient workforce
- Future-proof solution
Tatiane Stoeterau, Industrial Production Manager, Granado Pharmácias
Customer Testimonial
“We have increased our efficiency, improved the quality of our products, and we have also been able to trace any stage of the process.”
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Granado Pharmácias, Brazil’s oldest cosmetics brand, partnered with Schneider Electric to modernise its factories and transition to next-generation manufacturing processes. By integrating the latest industrial software and smart process control, it increased production and improved product quality through full traceability.