Smarter Bakery Production Starts With Insight

A manufacturing facility was struggling with filling line inefficiencies, despite seemingly stable monthly performance reports. Frequent, untracked short stops and unclear performance fluctuations were silently eroding productivity. By leveraging MontBlancAI’s advanced production monitoring tools, the facility uncovered and addressed these issues, delivering a remarkable 12.4% increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) within just six weeks. This case study details the challenge, the innovative approach, and the eventual results.

A huge range of issues has the potential to delay, disrupt, and derail manufacturing operations. If you can identify these issues at the earliest opportunity, you can maintain an efficient production process. Traditional monitoring methods struggle to pick up issues such as performance deviations, short-term disruptions, and the failure of critical components such as filtration membranes. Our approach to predictive solutions provides a proven answer to this problem.

Monitoring and validating Clean-in-Place (CIP) processes can be a complex, time-consuming, and costly process, particularly for relatively modest operations. However, production intelligence software powered by AI can make it significantly easier. That’s why a German dairy, processing more than two million liters of milk, turned to MontBlancAI for help. Producing high-quality milk, cream, yogurt, cheese, and butter, the dairy relies on CIP to clean and sanitize equipment and pipelines, ensuring product hygiene, quality, and safety.Was there a way to streamline and enhance the existing CIP processes? Let’s take a look.