Clover industries Ltd is one of South Africa’s leading beverage and dairy manufacturers
Challenge:The Clover’s production performance data was dispersed across plant equipment logs, manual spreadsheets, and outdate modules.
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Client: Client: Clover industries Ltd is one of South Africa’s leading beverage and dairy manufacturers, supplying a wide range of milk, yoghurt, juice, and nutritional products across the region.
Challenge: Challenge: Clover’s production performance data was dispersed across plant equipment logs, manual spreadsheets, and outdate modules. Line efficiency, machine downtime, quality checks, and resource consumption were difficult to track in real time.
Solution: Solutions: A unified data engineering solution was developed to integrate data from all manufacturing lines into a single data warehouse. Automated pipelines extracted data directly without manual intervention.
Result: Result: Clover gained instant visibility into what was happening across its plants, allowing teams to respond quickly to performance drops and prevent unnecessary costs.
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Client:
Clover industries Ltd is one of South Africa’s leading beverage and dairy manufacturers, supplying a wide range of milk, yoghurt, juice, and nutritional products across the region.
With several production plants and large distribution network, Clover depends on precise operational control to maintain product quality and cost efficiency in a highly competitive market.
Challenge:
Clover’s production performance data was dispersed across plant equipment logs, manual spreadsheets, and outdate modules. Line efficiency, machine downtime, quality checks, and resource consumption were difficult to track in real time. Managers had limited visibility into the true drivers of production costs, and performance reviews were often based on outdated or incomplete information. As a result, cost overruns, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies went unnoticed until late in the production cycle, affecting output consistency and profitability.
Solution:
A unified data engineering solution was developed to integrate data from all manufacturing lines into a single data warehouse. Automated pipelines extracted data directly r4qd r12```without manual intervention. The system organized production metrics into clear models for efficiency tracking, downtime analysis, batch performance, and cost drivers. A real-time dashboard was deployed to display key indicators such as OEE, material yield, energy consumption, and overall line performance, enabling supervisors to spot issues as they occurred.
Result:
Clover gained instant visibility into what was happening across its plants, allowing teams to respond quickly to performance drops and prevent unnecessary costs. Downtime was reduced due to faster detection of equipment anomalies, and production efficiency improved with clearer insights into bottlenecks. The company achieved better control of material usage and energy consumption, leading to measurable cost savings. The automated dashboard enabled a shift from reactive reporting to proactive operational management.
Testimonials
The automated performance dashboard has completely changed how decisions are made on the factory floor. Real-time access to accurate production data now allows teams to act immediately, optimize processes continuously, and manage cost with far greater precision than before.
