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Bega Cheese butters up supply chain with IoT

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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
  • Pacific
国家
  • Australia
产品
  • Cumulocity IoT
技术栈
  • IoT
  • Real-time data analytics
  • Machine Learning
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Customer Satisfaction
技术
  • 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 连接平台
  • 分析与建模 - 实时分析
适用行业
  • 食品与饮料
适用功能
  • 物流运输
  • 质量保证
用例
  • 供应链可见性(SCV)
  • 质量预测分析
  • 实时定位系统 (RTLS)
服务
  • 系统集成
  • 软件设计与工程服务
关于客户
Bega Cheese is an Australian diversified food company and one of the largest dairy producers in the country. It was originally founded as a dairy cooperative in 1899 with a number of its shares still held by Bega's farmer-suppliers. Headquartered in Bega, and with manufacturing sites in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, over half of Bega Cheese's revenue (as of 2019) comes from its spreads, dairy consumer packaged goods and other grocery products. Bega Cheese is a master at making cheese; its flagship Bega brand holds 15.7% of the Australian retail cheese market. But it has other iconic brands, too, such as the world- famous Vegemite spread, Picky Picky peanuts and Zoosh French onion dip. And it is not just Australians that like Bega; about a third of its revenues (as of 2019) came from exports of dairy products to around 40 countries around the world.
挑战
Bega Cheese, a major player in the Australian dairy industry, faced challenges in its supply chain. The process was almost entirely manual, with farmers having to test milk quality and check vat levels themselves, then phone in the data to Bega Cheese. If there was extra production, Bega Cheese would have to rush to get tankers there quickly—if they were available. Milk tankers could sometimes deliver too-warm milk—or shaken-up milk (which changes the quality). The supply chain had to be much faster, and much more efficient. The company wanted to improve the efficiency of its supply chain, increasing efficiency and improving visibility to address these unique challenges.
解决方案
Bega Cheese turned to the Internet of Things for a solution. They partnered with Swinburne University of Technology, which—with its IoT lab and Industry 4.0 initiative—was an ideal choice for Bega. Swinburne did a lot of the heavy lifting to get the project off the ground, which included successfully applying for a research grant from the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P). The project to optimise the productivity and competitiveness of Australia’s dairy industry, is in collaboration with Bega Cheese and three Australian milk suppliers initially—then scaling to 100+ suppliers. NBioT was selected as the network technology type to be used with new sensors. Then, what the project needed was an IoT platform that could start small, start quickly and then scale smoothly to include Bega Cheese’s 100+ suppliers. That is where Software AG was brought in—to scale up the 2.5-year project with its Cumulocity IoT platform.
运营影响
  • Storage vats can be measured automatically to see how full they are. If full, the IoT platform can trigger a transport request to collect the milk from the farm, saving the farmer the trouble of phoning in.
  • Vats can also be monitored for temperature and frequency of cleaning to ensure a low bacteria count.
  • Trucks can be monitored for bacteria count in their tanks and for temperature of the cargo. Bega Cheese can use real-time data to make sure the milk trucks take the best route—and avoid stopping at farms where there is not enough milk for pick-up.
  • Bega Cheese will know when the trucks will arrive at the factory depot, for better production scheduling.
  • Using real-time and historical data, Bega Cheese will be able to predict higher milk production with machine learning models; this will help it to schedule more pickups automatically and to plan in advance for increased production capacity.
数量效益
  • Saves farmers time, so they can focus on producing milk
  • Can monitor milk quality and condition before and during transport
  • Ability to optimise supply, preventing wastage
  • Saves unnecessary journeys, decreases transportation costs
  • Optimises factory production schedules based on quality of milk

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