The list of challenges facing the dairy industry is relentless. Confronting these while remaining competitive means building a thread of resilience throughout your business.
Climate change, water scarcity, soaring utility costs, high inflation, labor shortages and lingering supply chain issues? The list of challenges facing the dairy industry is relentless. Confronting these while remaining competitive means building a thread of resilience throughout your business.
Controlling your resource usage is crucial to build this resilience and to help maintain profitability, drive sustainability, and to realize your ESG goals. Here's five ways to reduce your energy usage which will help support your ambitions, and make the difference you're looking for.
The Challenge
Dealing with continuous cost pressures, changing production demands, and a huge amount of data are typical challenges in dairy industry CIP management. The problem is, that up until now you may have been trying to optimize your production based on assumptions. Intelligent CIP uncovers your CIP system's true operation with visual, easy-to-understand, actionable information. It lifts the curtain on each CIP run, for proof of compliance, and indicators of where to optimize to improve sustainability and reduce cycle times. Using this insight you can verify cleaning and meet targets while uncovering and prioritizing improvements.
The Bottom Line
Tracking, monitoring and reporting gives you control to make significant savings on your water, energy and chemical consumption by identifying where you're losing resources. It also reveals hidden opportunities to add value, while ensuring food safety, quality and traceability.
The Challenge
Has your CIP system been fine-tuned to maximize the performance of your plant? Has it been modified to accommodate production process changes since installation? If not, you're not getting the full operational benefits from your investment. By using CIPCheck, you will benefit from a detailed analysis of your utility, chemical and time usage to identify areas of improvement. CIPCheck is the baseline for CIP validation and will make a positive impact on available production time, waste, energy costs, and environmental issues.
The Bottom Line - Roughly 75% of CIP systems use original settings and run un-validated. Achieving assured food safety and increased production will benefit your peace of mind and profitability.
The Challenge
Compressed air plays a critical role in powering your production processes. The generation and distribution of this air accounts for a significant proportion of your energy bill. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that on average 20-30% of the compressed air you generate is lost to leaks - an unseen element adding to your energy costs and putting increased pressure on your generation system.
The Bottom Line
With AirCheck you can reduce utility waste and realize significant cost savings on your total compressed air budget. The audit and resulting customized actions can reduce waste, with the return on investment having an instant impact on your budgets.
The Challenge
Thermal energy and steam are primary resources. Harnessing steam is critical and losses in the distribution system have a negative impact on your cost of production and sustainability. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that 15 - 20% of installed steam traps fail if they do not receive maintenance every 3-5 years. The impact to your business? On average 16% of the steam you generate is lost through leaking steam traps, pipes, or valves within the distribution system. This negatively affects the cost of generation and the load put on your boiler and distribution system.
The Bottom Line
SteamCheck identifies and addresses steam losses to deliver you energy savings from low capital investment. It also improves the reliability of your steam system and creates a safer environment for employees.
The Challenge
Current trends are increasing concerns about the total cost of ownership (TCO) of membrane filtration systems - with emphasis on operational CIP time, membrane lifetime and productivity. While the focus on up-concentration requires new membranes at different tolerances. Larger installations, reuse systems and bio-fouling are also high on the agenda. Any downtime in the production cycle can quickly impact on your yield, impacting margins.
The Bottom Line
Divos ACP (Accelerated Cleaning Protocol) is a unique chemical solution that brings a completely new approach for the effective cleaning of membranes used for the cold production of skimmed milk, acid and sweet whey. Divos ACP reduces membrane CIP time and increases production output by u to 11% whilst delivering water and energy savings of up to 30-50%.
It's unlikely you will find the means to achieve all these resource savings with an off-the-peg solution. Or any combination of suppliers. To define the right strategy and optimize your production, you need a partnership that consistently delivers the knowledge-based expertise, experience, and specialist focus to help you compete effectively when margins and budgets are stretched. With a tailor-made combination of chemical, service and engineering solutions your business will benefit from a seamless, integrated and aligned approach and save on significant resource costs.
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