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Chinese Tobacco Products Manufacturer Increases Efficiency by 4% and Reduces Waste by 5%

Discover how a Chinese tobacco products manufacturer improves efficiency by 4% and reduces waste by 5%.

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Company
Chinese Tobacco Products Manufacturer
Industry
Food & Beverage/Consumer Products, Manufacturing & Digital Plant
Products
iFIX, Proficy Historian for Cloud, Proficy Operations Hub, Cloud MES, Proficy Plant Applications, HMI/SCADA, MES - Manufacturing Execution Systems, Proficy Industrial Software, Data Historian

Overview
4%
Increased efficiency
5%
Reduction in raw material waste
FLEXIBILITY
Complex new product specifications
Challenge

Challenge

Tobacco products manufacturing involves a challenging and complex mix of recipes and high-speed processes – ranging from raw materials processing to packaged goods.

This Asian tobacco products manufacturer needed to upgrade its existing automation infrastructure to:

  • Handle multiple product specifications and recipes
  • Improve overall quality, reliability and efficiency
  • Launch new and complex tobacco cutting, flavoring, and blending processes
Solution

Solution
Managing Process Complexity While Optimizing Production

Velotic’s Proficy solution is uniquely suited to collect and correlate high volumes of quality and event data to drive improvements in the tobacco production environment.

Using iFIX HMI/SCADA, this manufacturer leverages real-time visibility and control for better decision-making, enabling proactive actions that improve production.

With industry-leading MES capabilities, Proficy Plant Applications delivers clear insight and analyses to enable real-time decisions and improve overall efficiency, quality, and reliability of the process.
Results

Results
Driving Financial and Operational Results

By acting on critical process information, this manufacturer has improved productivity and can now manage multiple new product introductions with optimized efficiency. Benefits include:

  • 4% increased efficiency
  • 5% reduced raw material waste
  • Increased flexibility with a single platform to manage multiple product recipes and specifications

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