Tuning up-time for best delivery performance

摘要

Muller Dairy, the large-scale and still growing operation in Market Drayton of Molkerei Alois Muller GmbH, processes and delivers millions of pots of its famous yoghurts and desserts annually to UK and Irish food outlets. The logistics involved area significant issue to the company. The application of Wonderware InSQL real-time database with special integration by Pantek to Excel spreadsheets allows continuous fine-resolution monitoring of the entire warehouse system for maintenance and the resulting maximization of up-time. At first sight the process is simple, organize the delivery of milk, a wide range of fruit and other ingredients, then mix, pack and dispatch to wholesale and retail outlets. However, the scale of the operation at Market Drayton adds significant complication to this simple model, and in the warehouse area this requires constant computer monitoring of all steps and sequences in the large and complex logistics system. Deviance from the production schedule means that a shipmentcan be late and can thus incur contractual penalties.