A project with a clean ending on Home Services

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A project with a clean ending

posted by home in Carpet Cleaning

MANUFACTURERS must constantly juggle the dynamics of market demand and production efficiencies, creating precise strategies to balance the two. This was the problem faced by an international manufacturer of leading brands in foods, home care and personal care.

Faced with increased raw materials costs, the company wanted to maximise the performance of its detergent powder manufacturing plant. The plant is home to a spray dryer that produces over 50,000 tonnes per year of various concentrate and conventional detergent powder products.

The plant had installed primitive advanced process control (APC) software in the late 1990s but, due to the difficulty in maintaining the application, it was providing no real benefit to the plant.

Cleaning up production processes

THE detergent powder plantâ€™s specific goals were to improve moisture control and reduce variability in final base powder bulk density, while improving access and visibility to performance data. Achieving these goals would enable the site to better achieve product specification limits and increase yield, while also reducing packing wastage and product giveaway.

After researching available options, the plant turned to Pavilion Technologies to implement its Pavilion8 control solution on its spray dryer to increase overall profitability of its detergent powder product. Pavilion Technologies is a leading supplier of dryer control solutions to the most recognised names in the consumer goods industry, like Fonterra and Nestle.

The customer chose Pavilion8 over other options for its scalability, usability and ease of integration with existing business and plant infrastructure â€“ as well as its ability to deliver the highest return on investment (ROI) and provide the most sustainable long-term value to the siteâ€™s operations.

The software, which leverages a powerful modelling engine at its core, includes modules to control, analyse, monitor, visualise, persist and integrate. The Pavilion8 user interface is available from any PC on the network with access to the server. No software needs to be installed on the client PCs.

As well as containing all views necessary for operating, configuring and monitoring the control application, Pavilion8 also displays controller key performance indicators (KPIs), allowing simple and effective monitoring of controller metrics and overall solution performance.