{"id":1161,"date":"2019-05-14T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/controlloemisura.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:35:15","slug":"production-under-control-in-the-food-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.publiteconline.it\/controlloemisura\/production-under-control-in-the-food-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Production under Control in the Food Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

SB Italia<\/a> <\/strong>provided a company in the food industry with a monitoring system which allows operators to check production constantly. Correction measures may therefore be enacted rapidly, and the solution may be customized at any time<\/p>\n

by Ginevra Leonardi<\/em><\/p>\n

A part of the French multinational company Andros, Solo Italia manufactures and sells fresh and frozen foods. With two production sites in Italy, one in Ossona (MI) and one in Monguzzo (CO), it has 280 employees and a distribution of the product in Italy, Europe, the Middle East and America.
\nThe company needed to replace the monitoring system on the line at the Ossona plant with a more efficient one, allowing operators to verify production constantly, so as to enact correction measures rapidly.
\nThe solution already present within the plant did not satisfy the users completely; data returned by the system were not clearly visible, relevant information was confused and it had been designed for exceedingly small monitors, therefore, data were difficult to see for the operators. For this reason the employees responsible for control often could take timely action in case of faults on the line, generating errors and slowing down the production.<\/p>\n

In a few seconds data are processed and shown<\/strong>
\nSB Italia had already provided business intelligence solutions for Solo Italia in other departments. Starting from an analysis of the line\u2019s requirements, five dashboards were prepared, one for the production lines and one for an overall vision. Data coming from sensors placed along different points of the are gathered in a database and successively processed, turned into graphs and shown on a screen. Each employee on the production line may therefore monitor, almost in real time, what happens during production, taking action if critical issues arise (about six seconds are needed for the recorded data to be processed and shown). Data shown include, for instance, quantities produced and faulty items. Information provided is used to decide rapidly what and how much to produce, even depending on the requirements of the sales force and the warehouse. The new solution has been designed, following the client\u2019s request, in order to be viewed on 50\u201d screens, so that data may be easily seen even from a distance. The heart of the new monitoring is Qlik Sense, BI\u2019s intuitive tool, easy to develop and to get started, which allows the creation of clear, flexible and interactive visualizations.<\/p>\n

The solution may be customized at any time<\/strong>
\nToday the employees in charge of production control may use a high performance tool in their daily work: the really useful data are always shown and, if critical issues arise, special alerts communicate effectively the need to take action. A characteristic which Solo Italia particularly appreciated was the possibility of customizing the solution at any time: the user friendliness allows even company personnel not specialized in IT to modify and if need be build new tailored dashboards.
\nThe key to the project\u2019s success was teamwork with the client, which allowed to focus on requirements and identify the key information to manage the process.
\n\u201cWith our knowledge of the process, a trusted partner and a flexible and dynamic product such as Qlik, we obtained an extraordinary result\u201d, Fabrizio Argiolas, Solo Italia\u2019s information systems manager, explained. \u201cOur line operators can understand the quality of the production based on the real-time indicators on the monitor they can determine when the production batch will end thanks to the state of the work.
\nBut the greatest reward is seeing the satisfaction of our colleagues in the department for the results they obtain; they are the first to ask for continuous evolution; every datum which can be measured and compared with a standard may be inserted in the dashboards, influencing the decisions o the line manager\u201d
\nMoreno Simonetta, Business Intelligence Business Unit Manager, SB Italia, declared: \u201cThanks to our system, today those in charge of production line control have available a useful and high-performance tool which is easy to customize\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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