AVEVA Supports Kwik Trip with Fully Mobile, Model-Based MES Solution for Workforce Enablement, Quality, Traceability and Regulatory Compliance
Kwik Trip is a leader in foodservice and the company is vertically integrated across most of its product lines. It carries bagged milk and bagged orange juice under the Nature's Touch brand through its in-house dairy.
Kwik Trip has an in-house bakery operation that provides sliced and wrapped bread, donut and muffin products to its stores, along with a line of store-brand refrigerators under the "urge" brand.
The company also maintains brand partnerships with several professional sports teams in the Upper Midwest, including the Minnesota Twins, Vikings and Wild, along with the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks (the latter listed as part of its line of chocolate milk).
Goals
- Replacement of home-grown and separate systems with a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for material receiving, labelling and for logging all material consumption and production on the shop floor in real-time.
- Complement the company's ERP system with full product genealogy (track and trace), rules of quality control procedures and for managing the shelf life of received materials..Challenges.
- Increase workforce efficiency through mobile solutions for material receiving, labelling and material consumption.
Challenges
- Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA) track & trace requirements/state & federal regulations.
- Paper records used for product genealogy and risk of human error.
- Difficulties to promote best practices and maintain consistency between plants.
Solutions
- AVEVA™ System Platform
- AVEVA™ Work Tasks
- AVEVA™ Historian
- AVEVA™ Manufacturing Execution System
Results
- FSMA support, genealogy tracking/material traceability down from 2.5 hours to 10 minutes.
- Increased reporting and inventory management accuracy.
- Procedures are executed as electronic workflows which enforces the standard procedures for quality checks and facilitates the use of mobile devices on the shop floor.
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