You think your dairy processing plant is efficient, but when you do the math, you can’t account for 7 million pounds of lost milk per year. That’s a loss of more than $1 million. In addition, your POTW is billing you more than $80,000 annually for exceeding the maximum permitted levels of fats, oils and greases (FOG) in your wastewater. What’s going on? Seems like money down the drain, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, stories like this are not uncommon, especially when you don’t know what’s going on in your process. And, as Murphy’s Law’s first corollary states, “Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.” Most likely, without intervention, this dairy facility would have seen even worse numbers as time went on. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. Vigilistics, Inc. (now part of SafetyChain Software) production management software was employed to get a handle on what was happening to the “spilt milk.”