Industry 4.0 at ALPLA
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Packaging
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence
Services
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
As the complexity of production machinery increases, so does the need for highly-trained specialists in each factory. This creates the following challenges:
- Higher personnel costs in every plant
- Harder to recruit experienced talent at each location
- Personnel turnover becomes more costly
- Less experienced operators run the machines sub-optimally, impacting resource consumption and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
The Customer
ALPLA
About The Customer
ALPLA is a world leader in the area of packaging solutions, producing high-quality packaging for Coca-Cola, Unilever, and other brands in the food, drinks, cosmetics, and cleaning industries. ALPLA employs 20,900 employees at 181 locations across 46 countries.
The Solution
The switch to Crate IoT Data Platform: 250x faster...
After learning about the Crate IoT Data Platform, they decided to migrate the project to Crate. Powered by CrateDB, the Crate IoT Data Platform is purpose-built for IoT workloads like ALPLA’s, and it was attractive for the following reasons:
- SQL: Easy to migrate data and code to Crate IoT Data Platform from SQL Server
- Distributed: Easy and economical to scale on elastic clusters of inexpensive servers
- Dynamic schema: Allowed ALPLA to combine all their 900 different sensor readings into a single table for easier maintenance and faster querying
- Real-time performance: Columnar indexes cached in memory enable the Crate IoT Data Platform to execute dashboards queries 250x faster than SQL Server (in milliseconds, not minutes).
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