Egglife Foods
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Bridging The Data Divide: How Egglife Foods Unified The Plant Floor With SafetyChain And Ignition
Egglife Foods, Inc. is a great example of bridging the gap between quality and machine-level data. By partnering with SafetyChain and Inductive Automation, they’ve unified plant floor data and eliminated latency between data capture, actionable insights, and results. Egglife can connect the dots between thousands of data points across the floor, so quality checks are understood alongside machine performance.
With the introduction of advanced data processing technologies, there is a lot of interest in the “last mile” analytics — the gap in analytic output and actual changes in behavior on the plant floor. A more painful challenge for most manufacturers is the first mile and the “middle miles.” These miles involve getting the data out of the plant floor’s many closed systems and machines, and connecting it with other manufacturing subsystems (human input, machine performance, quality/compliance, etc.) to generate the appropriate context for better decision-making. Anything that doesn’t allow data in or out is a closed system to avoid; this should be table stakes.
An early constraint in the journey to a connected plant floor is leveraging as many of your existing systems as possible. When it comes to solving the “first mile” problem, Inductive Automation’s web-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, Ignition, is unbeatable. Ignition supports multiple frameworks and industry protocols, connects with your existing shop-floor stack, and elevates machine data for utilization in downstream systems and processes. There is no need to look further than Ignition to open up traditionally closed systems (and without breaking the bank).
For Egglife Foods, quality assurance bore the brunt of first- and middle-mile inefficiencies, with processes still heavily dependent on a mix of paper and spreadsheets. Leveraging SafetyChain and Ignition as its food and beverage manufacturing software, they turned what was once a complex and inefficient process into an automated, agile operation capable of delivering consistent, high-quality results in real-time. VP of Operations and Supply Chain Manesh Paudel emphasizes the importance of consistency: “We’re in a business where you’re rewarded for… doing the same thing day in, day out. That is exactly why SafetyChain and Ignition are so important.”