Case Study
Using Real-Time Data to Run Smarter, Leaner, and Faster
“MES is really focused on dairy components. That’s how it’s designed. How do you track and optimize butter fat, protein, other solids all the way through intake of the plant to the finished product? It’s already set up to do that.”
-Darin Hanson
SVP, Milk Supply Chain & Risk Management at Foremost Farms USA
The Ever.Ag Solutions
By using MES to monitor every process step from raw ingredient to final product, Foremost Farms was able to digitize production details for enhanced accuracy, improved efficiency, and fast, real-time data insights, setting them on the path to peak performance. Specifically, they used MES to improve the reporting process, giving them the ability to validate milk from receiving through cheese vats.
Foremost Farms is now implementing MES at their other cheese plants.
Improved Process Control – MES provided detailed operational data capture for reporting and process improvement.
Reduced Losses – MES identified areas of inefficiency and waste, allowing Foremost Farms to make correctional tweaks to help keep solids in the plant and adding real dollars to the bottom line.
Increased Efficiency – By using paperless forms, MES enabled Foremost Farms to leverage real-time data and analytics to maximize yields. Any large process variance warns an operator and can text/email supervisors that their attention is warranted.
Benchmarked Best Practices – Detailed data reporting from the Appleton plant not only drove process and quality improvements there, but also served as a benchmark to validate best practices across their other cheese plants.
“Having people come in that know dairy, offering systems in that are dairy-centric, has helped propel us into a position of success much quicker.”