processed foods
Discover how EthonAI’s autonomous centerlining capabilities delivered savings worth $100k per year per line for a leading food producer.
Industry
CPG
Location
Asia
Product
Analyst, Operator
Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers operate in a high-volume, low-margin environment. Even minor inefficiencies, like a few grams of excess material per unit or inconsistent process settings, can scale into major costs across millions of units produced.
A leading Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturer sought to reduce process variation. Its centerlining was suboptimal due to a lack of reliable tools that allowed for real-time line improvements.
EthonAI’s Analyst identified the root causes of material overusage and recommended setpoint changes that improved centerlining performance by more than 10×. In extensive benchmarking, it outperformed all previously used software solutions, which could not identify the causes of the prevalent process variation. The implementation was hands-on, with strong support for process engineers and IT teams, which led to strong user adoption and fast data pipeline setup.
Using EthonAI’s Industrial AI platform led to $100K in annual savings per line. Following these results, multiple plants across the conglomerate requested rollouts after seeing the impact of AI-powered root cause analysis on quality and operational efficiency.
IMPACT
Cost reduction through intelligent centerlining
E2E data integration
Built end-to-end pipeline to give live recommendations for improved line stability.
Identified key parameters
Identified critical drivers of process variation and provided operators with setpoint recommendations.
Drive cost-reduction
Optimized centerlining drove ~$100,000 cost-savings per line and year.