Increasing Plant Awareness

Superior Farms

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Bret Wright - Process Improvement Manager

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Agenda

Company Overview

Increase Plant Awareness

The Challenge

What we did

What we found and learnt

Why did we choose Wonderware

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Timeline & Next Steps

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Intro video – 1.18

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Superior Farms

• Founded in 1964, Ellensburg WA

• Employee owned company since 1991, and in that time expanded to Colorado, Iowa, Chicago and Boston.

• We have employed up to 400 people Nationwide.

• Two Full processing facilities in California and Colorado, and harvest 35% of the Domestic Lambs

• Dixon Plant Upgrade: completed construction in 2015. Updated Harvest Carcass Cooler System, on Scada/HMI, and country's first Camera Grading technology.

• Sustainability, Wind Turbine, and solar provides 90% of the Dixon facility’s Electrical Power.

Company Overview

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“Lamb Plant Temple Grandin”

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Improving Awareness

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The Challenge

• Plant Upsets• Downtime, Boilers, Water Treatment System, Water usage

• Maintenance Activities• Responsiveness, Reactive, Corrective

• Plant Improvements• Sustainability, Increase efficiency, Reduce waste

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• Sensors / Devices for data collection

• Local InTouch Edge HMI

• Data Replication to AVEVA Insight Cloud

• Mobile Notifications and Dashboards

Improving Awareness

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What we did

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Improving Awareness

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What we found and learnt

• Finding water leaks

• Weekends Minimum Water Usage

• Water Usage Spikes

• Accurate Billing and Activities

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Why did we choose Wonderware?

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The perfect fit

• Varied Technologies, Brands, Protocols, etc. at the Dixon and Denver plants

• Technology modularity and scalability• Broad spectrum of solutions and Add-ons tools

• Easy to use: from Zero to Hero (Learn, Configure, Apply)

• One point of contact for Support, Training, Best practices

• Overall Knowledge transferability

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Timeline and Next steps

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First Step on a long Journey

• Timeline: Proof of concept -> Pilot Project -> Successful System ----- Overall Invested 20 Hrs

• ROI: • Reduced data collection and reporting time by 7hrs per week• Increase incident responsiveness and Assets Uptime• Reduced Plant Downtime (estimated up to $10k per Incident)

• Next Steps• Monitoring critical assets: Motors, Robots, Refrigeration, Harvest Room• Implementing Predictive Maintenance • Improving Workforce efficiency• Improving Compliance Auditing and Reporting

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Superior Farms

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