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A natural recipe for digital transformation

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • Brazil
Product
  • EcoStruxure Plant
  • EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS
  • AVEVA's Batch Management
  • AVEVA's Historian
Tech Stack
  • IoT
  • Automation
  • Data Analytics
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Brand Awareness
Technology Category
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
  • Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
  • Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries
  • Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Quality Assurance
Use Cases
  • Manufacturing System Automation
  • Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
Founded in 1870, Granado Pharmácias is Brazil’s oldest, and one of its biggest, cosmetics brands. It boasts a portfolio of more than 600 premium products, including soaps, creams, and perfumes, based on natural ingredients. Since its beginnings as a traditional apothecary in Rio de Janeiro, Granado has grown into an international business. It now operates stores in major European cities, as well as an online business that serves more than 30 countries. To continue expanding and strengthening its international brand, Granado had to make sure its high product standards were always maintained.
The Challenge
Granado Pharmácias, Brazil’s oldest cosmetics company, was looking to modernize its traditional manufacturing process to improve production and product traceability. This was crucial for the company to strengthen its brand internationally and continue its expansion. The company had to ensure repeatability in all its production processes and much better traceability of manufacturing information. Any quality issue would result in a product being rejected at the end of the manufacturing chain, affecting output. The company’s management decided to integrate the latest industrial automation into the company’s traditional production process, and began a potentially tricky digital transformation.
The Solution
Schneider Electric was chosen to implement Granado’s modernization project at the company’s Japeri plant. The upgrade was particularly challenging as the 30,000 square-meter factory operated almost completely manually, resulting in difficulties in diagnosing failures, inconsistencies in product quality, and a lack of process repetitiveness. Schneider Electric offered powerful solutions based on EcoStruxure™ Plant, an IoT-enabled, open and interoperable architecture and platform. These included EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS, a single automation system for plant engineering and operation, as well as AVEVA's Batch Management control system for building and controlling complex batching processes, and Historian, AVEVA's high-performance real-time database of historical information for building and visualizing production reports.
Operational Impact
  • Granado staff – both in operation and maintenance – now work more efficiently thanks to a fully integrated automation system based on EcoStruxure Plant.
  • It allows them to save repeatable processes and adjust quickly to accommodate changing market demands.
  • The innovative EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS enables control and supervision in the same engineering, maintenance, and operation environment, unifying all devices, components, and accessories into a single tool.
  • AVEVA's Batch Management further improves operations and production traceability, which helps ensure consistently high product quality.
  • All the manufacturing data, both historical and real time, is stored and made available in one place – AVEVA's Historian.
Quantitative Benefit
  • 10%–15% increase in production

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