Case Study
Optimizing Production Performance and Data Reliability for a Leading Craft Brewery
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Reduction in database growth rate
About the Client
A prominent craft brewery specializing in producing high-quality beers through advanced brewing techniques and sustainable manufacturing practices. Facing challenges in system performance, limited infrastructure scalability, uncontrolled database growth, and incomplete OEE data, the client partnered with ITHENA. The outcome was scalable infrastructure, optimized data logging, validated OEE data, and rapid access to historical insights, delivering enhanced production visibility, reliable performance metrics, faster decision-making, and more sustainable operations, reducing errors and improving overall plant efficiency.
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Reduction in database growth rate
ITHENA’s expertise in optimizing our infrastructure and data strategy has transformed how we monitor production. With reliable OEE data, faster insights, and scalable systems, our team can make confident, data-driven decisions, improving operational efficiency across the brewery.
Director of Manufacturing Excellence
Director of Manufacturing Excellence
Opportunity for Impact
Reduction in database growth rate
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Higher OEE data accuracy and reliability
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Improvement in system performance
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Key Challenges Faced
- Difficulty in maintaining consistent system performance as data volumes increased
- Limited scalability of existing infrastructure to support future growth
- Rapid and uncontrolled database growth affecting system stability and costs
- Lack of complete and reliable OEE data for accurate performance measurement
Our Solution
ITHENA, in partnership with Ignition, empowered the client with:
Scalability & Performance Optimization
Assessed server capacity, database growth, and logging patterns to design a scalable, high-performance architecture
Optimized Data Logging & Retention
Implemented logging-on-change, dead-bands, and data retention policies to control database growth while retaining business-critical data
OEE Data Readiness & Alignment
Identified data gaps and validated tags while aligning OEE calculation methods with reliable production data
Reliable Production & Historical Insights
Validated OPC data and enabled fast access to aggregated historical insights without querying archived databases