Food Processing Information System
Benefits of Food Processing Intelligence (PI) Systems
- Respond more quickly to changes
- Improve overall production performance
- Make better, more informed business decisions
- Establish best practices
- Establish benchmarking for continuous improvement
- Support lean initiatives
Features of Food Processing Intelligence (PI) Systems
- Real-time and/or historical data reporting
- Real-time and/or historical data analysis
- Plant-level and/or enterprise-level drill down analysis
- Advanced analytics
- Data warehousing
- Data marts
- Comprehensive data visualization
- Scorecards and dashboards
- Data marts
- Integration and standardization of different data systems/sources
Challenges in Traditional MIS and Performance Monitoring Systems
- Instructions are often going unnoticed or followed even after their period of applicability
- Manual data entry by collecting data from DCS, Lab, EMS, Tanks, SAP, etc.
- Human Errors in manual data logging/retrieval
- Exhaustive and time-consuming to consolidate manual log sheets when required
- NO real-time visibility and trending of these logged parameters
- Searching of an event or comment from Logsheets is tedious
- Its is laborious to maintain the physical papers, binders, and housekeeping
- Modifying and reprinting the layouts is always expensive and time-consuming
Food Processing Information System and Operational Excellence
- Real-time and/or historical data reporting
- Real-time and/or historical data analysis
- Plant-level and/or enterprise-level drill down analysis
- Advanced analytics
- Data warehousing
- Data marts
- Comprehensive data visualization
- Scorecards and dashboards
- Data marts
- Integration and standardization of different data systems/sources
