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Puratos: powering multi-site, multi-application IoT solutions
Crafting the Future of Food Industry
Puratos is the leading industry player providing professional ingredients and solutions for bakers, pastry chefs, and chocolatiers around the globe. With over 75 production units in more than 50 countries, 10,000 employees, and over 3 billion euros in revenues, Puratos stands at the forefront of innovation in the food ingredients industry, helping professionals create exceptional products that enhance both quality and taste.
The use of IoT technology plays a key role into this innovation strategy. Puratos leverages IoT across its global production sites to enhance operational efficiency and sustainability. IoT enables real-time monitoring for improved equipment effectiveness and predictive maintenance, reducing downtime and costs. Additionally, it optimizes energy and utilities management, contributing to significant cost savings.
CHALLENGES & REQUIREMENTS
Addressing IoT managebility across multiple production sites globally
With production sites spread across the globe, Puratos identified IoT as a strategic technology for generating various operational insights:
- Operational Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), enabling real-time monitoring and optimization of machinery performance.
- Predictive maintenance, where IoT is leverage to anticipate equipment failures before they occur, reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
- Energy and Utilities management, allowing for precise tracking and optimization of energy usage, which contributes to cost savings and sustainability goals.
Instead of deploying isolated IoT solutions with heterogeneous sensors, Puratos required a centralized platform to manage all individual deployments. This centralized approach allows for streamlined management and consistent performance across all locations, enabling local teams to effectively utilize IoT technology.
SOLUTION
From Sensor to Cloud: Streamlining IoT Management for Puratos
Puratos faced the challenge of managing their IoT deployments across diverse production locations. Their need for a centralized solution tailored to oversee these deployments led them to our advanced IoT enterprise platform, which offers a edge-to-cloud infrastructure designed for flexible and efficient multi-site IoT management that scales with their sensing requirements and offers customization according to their needs.
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RESULTS
Cloud Integration for Centralized Control:
While edge computing ensures local efficiency, our cloud integration provides Puratos with a bird’s-eye view of their entire IoT ecosystem. The cloud platform centralizes data from all edge devices, offering comprehensive analytics, reporting, and remote management capabilities. This integration allows Puratos to monitor trends, optimize processes, and implement updates or new configurations across all locations simultaneously.
Seamless Integration with Enterprise Historian Systems:
Depending on the actual IoT application, the collected sensor data needs to be integrated with Puratos’ existing enterprise historian systems, based on AVEVA PI (formerly OSISoft PI). Integrating with this system is straightforward with our platform, which offers a one-click, flexible way to connect any sensor with the PI system. The platform’s versatile web interface allows users to specify and build the relevant Asset Framework structure effortlessly, ensuring smooth data flow and consistency with existing data management practices.
Scalability to Meet Growing Needs:
Our platform is designed to scale with Puratos’ expanding operations. Whether they are adding new locations or integrating additional sensors and devices, the platform can seamlessly accommodate this growth. This scalability ensures that Puratos can continue to innovate and expand their IoT initiatives without the need for extensive overhauls or replacements of existing systems.
Security and Compliance:
Ensuring data security and regulatory compliance is paramount in the food industry. Our platform includes robust security measures to protect sensitive data both at the edge and in the cloud. It supports industry-standard encryption, regular security updates, and compliance with relevant regulations, providing Puratos with peace of mind regarding their IoT operations.
User-Friendly Interface for Local Teams:
A key feature of our solution is its user-friendly interface, designed to empower local teams at Puratos. The platform provides intuitive dashboards and controls, enabling staff to easily monitor and manage IoT devices, troubleshoot issues, and make informed decisions based on real-time data. This ease of use ensures that the technology is accessible and beneficial to all team members, regardless of their technical expertise.
