Schneider Electric announced the successful implementation of its Aavin Dairy project with technology that can further boost its performance in the Indian dairy industry. Aavin Dairy, a Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation Limited (TCMPF) is a co-operative institution functioning in a three-tier system. The objective of the Federation is to promote the economic development of the farming community by procurement of milk from villages, processing of milk and manufacturing of milk products. Aavin recently implemented a smart manufacturing unit through Schneider’s IoT enabled architecture- EcoStruxure for food and beverage.
Aavin Dairy has recently deployed Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure for food and beverage to improve productivity levels of its manufacturing unit. Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS powered by apps, analytics, services, edge control and connected products has totally integrated and automated the plant for better operational and production efficiency. It is a scalable and flexible system architecture for future capacity expansion while ensuring object-based programming for standardisation using liquid food libraries, easy maintenance and operation. Speaking on the benefits of technology deployment, Dr S Selvaraj, General Manager CDCMPU Ltd (Aavin) said, “We wanted to improve on the accuracy in milk processing and uniformity in end product quality and our plant’s operational efficiency, flexibility and scalability. EcoStruxure Hybrid DCS helped us strengthen all this while improving our operational efficiency by 50 per cent since all the data is monitored and visualised and turned into actionable insights. This has improved asset management and energy efficiency, further increasing processing capacity from 2 LLPD to 3 LLPD scalable to 5 LLPD.”
