Pacific Coast Producers
Upgrading the Overall Equipment Effective (OEE) program in agriculture and food industry with near real-time machine-data monitor.
Background
- Agricultural Cooperative owned by over 150 family-farms in Central and Northern California (US).
- Specialized in canning fruits and tomatoes for private-brands worldwide.
- Operates 4 production plants in Northern California
Business need
- Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) program
- Collect, monitor and analyze production data centrally across the 4 production plants.
- Variables: Machine status, down-time, time between failures, production changes, environmental variables, alarms, ….
Technical Requirements
- No-code and easy-to-use solutions to minimize initial investment.
- Test proof-of-concept fast and scale to production.
- Rockwell ControlLogix PLCs deployed across the 4 plants.
- tManager in-chassis module for ControLogix controllers.
- 100 Tags per PLC transferred over MQTT to AWS IoT Core.
- AWS SiteWise to monitor data. Refresh rate < 5 seconds.
- 30+ users with remote access, including production and operations management team.
- No-code, easy-to-deploy end-to-end solution.
- Minimal initial investment, fast PoC and scalability.
- Maximize ROI. Fast and valuable insights.
