Connecting and integrating all business layers

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

Apps, Analytics and Services: AVEVA software*: System Platform, Batch Management, Manufacturing Execution System, and expert services
Edge Control: Modicon M580 and M340 PLCs
Connected 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 standardized across the entire facility: from milk reception to dryer process, standardizing 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 EcoStruxure for Food and Beverage solution provided a connected and scalable backbone for Mataura Valley Milk's state-of-the-art plant with:

• 20% faster time to market through connectivity and engineering standardisation
• Payback period of 28 months for power-quality equipment
• Additional 4.5% available energy on the grid
• 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