Eker Dairy
AVEVA provides the final ingredient to carry on Eker Dairy's dairy-making legacy in Turkey
Eker Dairy, an iconic player in the Turkish dairy industry, automated all its production processes with AVEVA System Platform and AVEVA Historian. Previously, operators processed analog data manually, which slowed production and exposed quality tracking to numerous data entry errors. With AVEVA, Eker Dairy achieved the highest level of product tracking and traceability and enabled its engineering team to create powerful templates offering the flexibility its processes require, while addressing industrial cybersecurity requirements. The result is a significant reduction in manufacturing, logistics and inventory costs, while carrying on Eker's legacy of making quality dairy products.
Integrated AVEVA software
AVEVA System Platform
Eker Dairy uses the AVEVA System Platform to centralize the management of its dairy operations. This industrial platform unifies production processes and allows complete supervision of equipment, ensuring consistent dairy product quality and optimal operational efficiency.
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AVEVA Historian
Eker Dairy relies on AVEVA Historian to collect and archive production data in real-time. This solution helps analyze trends, optimize manufacturing processes, and ensure critical regulatory compliance in the food industry.
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FAQ
How does AVEVA enable flexible modeling of dairy processes?
AVEVA System Platform relies on an object-based approach that makes it possible to model every piece of equipment, line or recipe in a unified plant model. At Eker Dairy, the engineering team built powerful templates offering the flexibility required by dairy processes (pasteurization, fermentation, packaging). This modeling speeds up the rollout of new lines, standardizes best practices and simplifies maintenance. It is a standard for complex food and beverage industries where every product has its own specific requirements.
How does AVEVA Historian strengthen regulatory traceability?
In the dairy sector, traceability is an unavoidable regulatory requirement. At Eker Dairy, AVEVA Historian replaces the manual processing of analog data with automatic, reliable, time-stamped collection. This historization makes it possible to fully track each batch, retrieve production parameters in the event of a complaint and prove compliance with food standards. Reducing manual entry errors is a direct benefit for quality and food safety.
How does Eker Dairy apply Industry 4.0 principles?
Eker Dairy applied Industry 4.0 by connecting operations, teams and devices through IoT within AVEVA System Platform and Historian. Data flows in real time between PLCs, operators and IT systems. This digital transparency made it possible to increase production capacity to more than 600 tons per day while improving quality. It is a relevant model for food manufacturers that want to modernize their facilities without losing their product identity.
What are the financial benefits of automation?
Full process automation at Eker Dairy with AVEVA generated significant reductions in manufacturing, logistics and inventory costs. Production capacity exceeded 600 tons per day, quality and traceability improved considerably, and data entry errors almost disappeared. For a Turkish dairy producer operating in a competitive market, these gains translate into better margins, greater export capacity and resilience to market fluctuations.
Why build cybersecurity in from the design stage?
A connected, automated plant like Eker Dairy's is exposed to cyber threats that can compromise production, food safety and sensitive data. AVEVA builds industrial cybersecurity in from the design stage (network segmentation, authentication, auditing). For the dairy sector, where an incident can lead to product recalls and reputational damage, this protection is strategic. Digital transformation must therefore go hand in hand with a proactive security approach rather than after-the-fact additions.