Miller Magazine Issue: 119 November 2019

40 NEWS MILLER / NOVEMBER 2019 Bühler increases production efficiencies and yield via digital solutions Bühler Insights, the first cloud platform dedicated to the food and feed industry, is helping to drive up yields, re- duce waste, and improve food safety. The platform enab- les secure, high-performance, reliable digital services that, together with blockchain technologies, can achieve signi- ficant progress in improving safety, quality, efficiency, and traceability across food production value chains. One of the digital tools Büh- ler offers for the millers is Error & Downtime Analysis (EDA). EDA is a digital tool which analyzes a mill’s performance. It shows machine and process malfunctions in a structured manner. These insights are the ba- sis for predictive maintenance and self-improving processes. Customi- zed trends and benchmarking opti- ons create transparency and increase uptime by up to 1 %. With EDA historical and actual data are collected, analyzed and vi- sualized. Anomalies can be detected and optimally broken down to their root cause. This fast and convenient way to identify potential improve- ments increases plant availability and efficiency sustainably. Data from plant control system brought to the cloud EDA collects data from Bühler’s plant control system (WinCos V2 r.2 or Mercury MES) and visualizes it on Bühler Insights. The digital service allows filtering based on secti- ons and time. In addition, machines with the most faults and equipment or shifts with the le- ast uptime can be identified. Depending on age, process, deg- ree of automation or service cycles, the potential for improvement va- ries from plant to plant. However, even a slight increase in plant upti- me can result in an amortization of less than one year. In the best case scenario, EDA pays-off after just a few months. ACHIEVE CONSISTENTLY HIGH YIELDS WITH YIELD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Yield is the main lever to improve the profitability of a flour mill. Büh- ler’s cloud-based Yield Management System (YMS) enables yield moni- toring from anywhere at any time. Based on its integration with Bühler Insights, it makes deviations betwe- Bühler continues to develop digital solutions to enable improvements in efficiency and yield. Bühler’s Error & Downtime Analysis (EDA) is a digital tool which analyzes a mill’s performance. With EDA historical and actual data are collected, analyzed and visualized. Another cloud-based tool Yield Management System (YMS) enables yield monitoring from anywhere at any time.