Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble standardizes its plants with AVEVA System Platform
Procter & Gamble, the global consumer goods giant, wanted to accelerate time to market for its personal health, consumer health, personal care and hygiene products, amid a lack of operational visibility, heterogeneous system standards and high implementation costs from repeatedly redeveloping a foundation for each new plant. Siloed data also limited collaboration between cross-functional teams. The group standardized on AVEVA System Platform across its 90 plants worldwide for industrial monitoring, laying a common, flexible foundation for 65 different product lines. Teams can now monitor, control and mitigate bottlenecks using historical and real-time data from all processes and global sites. P&G thus has a unified reference for its metrics and 360° reporting, which reduces implementation costs for new sites and actively supports the group's Industry 4.0 initiatives.
FAQ
How does AVEVA System Platform serve as a global foundation for P&G's 90 plants?
AVEVA System Platform acts as a common industrial operating system across Procter & Gamble's entire manufacturing footprint. This standardization provides an abstraction layer that unifies 65 different product lines, from personal care to hygiene. Each new plant benefits from a reusable foundation rather than systematically redeveloping the basics. It is a major productivity lever for a group managing dozens of sites with increasingly short time-to-market cycles.
Why standardize industrial monitoring across a global group?
Before standardization, P&G faced disparate systems that led to a lack of operational visibility and high integration costs. By adopting AVEVA System Platform as a global standard, the group gains a "single pane of glass" to manage its operations, speeds up the spread of best practices between sites and drastically reduces redevelopment costs per plant. Standardization is also a prerequisite for comparing performance across sites and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
How can AVEVA reduce implementation costs for a new industrial site?
Each new plant usually involves a costly configuration, integration and commissioning effort. AVEVA System Platform provides P&G with a reusable model based on standardized objects, eliminating duplicate work from one site to the next. Engineers deploy prebuilt applications rather than redeveloping everything, shortening commissioning times and improving the consistency of installed solutions. It delivers a direct return on investment on industrial expansion projects.
What benefits does cross-functional collaboration gain from a unified repository?
Siloed data hinders collaboration between production, quality, maintenance and supply chain. AVEVA System Platform provides P&G with a unified repository for KPIs and 360° reporting. Teams share a common language and contextualized data, speeding up the resolution of cross-functional issues and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. It is a strategic asset in a group where operational decisions affect several functions at once.
How does a unified platform support Industry 4.0 initiatives?
Industry 4.0 projects (IoT, AI, digital twin, predictive maintenance) need a robust integration layer to leverage data from heterogeneous equipment. AVEVA System Platform provides P&G with this flexible foundation shared across its 90 plants, enabling advanced use cases to be deployed at scale. Without this foundation, each initiative would remain isolated at one site. With it, proven innovations are quickly rolled out across the entire global footprint.