Customer Highlights Large Nutrition Company

Large Nutrition Company

Proprietary Recipe System Replacement with FactoryTalk Batch

Industry Food

Product/Material Handled Nutritional food products and ingredient formulations

System Deliverables

Proprietary System Replacement

An aging Microsoft Access/VBA setup that nobody could easily support was replaced with FactoryTalk Batch and Material Manager-built to last and easier to maintain.

Recipe & Formulation Optimization

Recipes were restructured into an ingredient-based format, simplifying the math and making PLC-based formulation logic far more transparent.

Integrated Batch Architecture

Disparate recipe processes were pulled into a single ISA-88 batch system-giving the operation better visibility, traceability, and day-to-day consistency.

Results in Action

Improved Product Quality

Standardized batch execution and tighter ingredient control brought consistency to complex nutritional formulations-batch after batch.

Reduced Material Waste

Better formulation calculations and tighter process control meant less ingredient waste-and noticeably lower production costs.

Lower Support & Maintenance Costs

Removing the custom code made troubleshooting easier and long-term support much more manageable with widely available, off-the-shelf software.

  • The customer’s management felt that ECS had to dig in and truly understand the very complicated Proprietary application and how critical it was to their operations.

    — Magnum’s Controls & Process Automation Group Case Study Narrative
  • Feedback from the top engineer was that the product quality has improved, and there is significantly less waste material.

    — Magnum’s Controls & Process Automation Group Case Study Narrative
  • With the changes, it is now streamlined because everything happens in the same place, and there is more visibility into what must happen to make a specific product.

    — Magnum’s Controls & Process Automation Group Case Study Narrative
  • The customer can now count on an application that can be supported by the customer’s personnel or any FTBatch knowledgeable engineer.

    — Magnum’s Controls & Process Automation Group Case Study Narrative
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