Laemthong, THAILAND: ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST MODERN SMART FACTORIES IN THE MEAT INDUSTRY
Laemthong, a customer of SLA since 2018, focuses primarily on the production of food, especially poultry and poultry products. The ERP system used by the company is SAP. SLA has helped to make the meat producer to one of the world's first and most modern smart factories in the meat industry.
THE TASK TO SLA:
- Automate and optimize existing processes in production and logistics (quality improvements, steady knowledge gains) in order to achieve the highest possible resource efficiency
- Self-thinking and self-communicating machines in production and logistics
- Complete transparency and traceability in the value chain
HOW THE COMPANY WORKS TODAY THANKS TO SLA:
- Fully automated production and logistics - from the digital capture of raw materials up to the packaging and dispatch to the trade
- Use of iBoxes equipped with RFID chips
- Highly efficient raw material warehouse, managed by SLA's Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Production machines independently request the required raw materials from the warehouse
- All data for each process step of a production batch will be stored in a Virtual Private Cloud
- Before the go-live of the production and logistics system, the entire process was completely simulated: the complete system was presented as a 3D virtual reality model
THE BENEFITS OF THE COMPANY TODAY:
- Intelligent, networked systems, web-based and cross-company
- Automated, self-optimizing production planning
- Use of state-of-the-art communication technologies (XML / SOAP, REST, JSON, TCP / IP etc.)
- Optimized work processes within the company and among customers, suppliers, partners
- Complete traceability of each single batch
- Production factory as an adaptive system, which is in a constant process of optimization
