Modernizing Manufacturing Data and Analytics for a Leading Agribusiness Company
An agribusiness growing sugarcane, vegetables and citrus ran on legacy Wonderware and could not turn high-speed historian data into business insight. ITHENA modernised the stack and built a historian-to-SQL pipeline with KPI analytics.
- Client
- Agribusiness producing sugarcane, vegetables and citrus
- Industry
- Agriculture and food
- Solution
- ITHENA data modernisation
- Scope
- Wonderware modernisation, data continuity, historian-to-SQL pipeline, KPI analytics
- Headline result
- 42% more reliable OEE
Three numbers the data moved.
Results after ITHENA modernised the client's manufacturing data stack.
Faster access to production insights
Historian data processed into SQL gave managers insight sooner.
Reduction in manual reporting effort
Automated KPIs replaced manually built reports.
Higher reliability of OEE
Clean, continuous data made OEE figures trustworthy.
Meet the organization and understand the context behind the transformation.
A prominent agribusiness company delivering sugarcane, fresh vegetables, and citrus products through vertically integrated operations and regional rail transportation. Facing challenges with legacy infrastructure, limited scalability, data continuity risks, and difficulty converting high-speed historian data into business insights, the client partnered with ITHENA. The outcome was a modern, secure data architecture with seamless historian integration, advanced analytics, and centralized reporting—enabling faster access to production insights, reliable OEE metrics, improved decision-making, and scalable operations across the enterprise.
ITHENA’s expertise in modernizing our data architecture has transformed how we access and trust our production data. With faster insights, reliable OEE metrics, and a scalable reporting foundation, our teams can make confident, data-driven decisions across operations.
Director of Operations
Historian data nobody could use.
Legacy infrastructure limited scale, and compressed time-series data was hard to report on.
- Legacy Wonderware infrastructure limiting scalability and long-term performance
- Difficulty bridging high-speed historian data with business reporting requirements
- Risk of data discontinuity while migrating to a modern technology stack
- Complex, compressed time-series data that was difficult to consume for management insights
- Limited access to long-term historical trends and advanced analytics for operations and leadership teams
How ITHENA closed the gaps.
ITHENA empowered the client with:
Legacy Infrastructure Modernization
Migrated the Savannah Plant from a legacy Wonderware setup to a scalable Rockwell Automation environment
Data Continuity & System Re-Wiring
Re-engineered existing applications, including SugmanOEE, to integrate with Microsoft SQL Server 2025 without loss of historical logic
Historian-to-SQL Processing Pipeline
Built a processing pipeline to convert high-speed historian data into structured SQL tables for reporting
Advanced Analytics & KPI Enablement
Developed SQL logic to generate KPIs such as Daily Yield, OEE, and cost-per-ton metrics