97 AVEVA has helped Nestlé to cut powder waste and reduce spillages when manufacturing its Nesquik products share information across teams, geographies and external partners, improving coordination and decision-making. How does industrial intelligence help businesses boost sustainability and optimise their operations? At the design and project execution stage, connected industrial ecosystems help engineers and businesses deliver capital projects more efficiently by ensuring everyone works from a shared, trusted data environment. This reduces duplication, rework and errors, thereby helping projects become both more resource-efficient and more cost-effective. On the operations side, industrial intelligence allows businesses to optimise operations more effectively – reducing fuel consumption, emissions, water usage and electricity demand. Food and drink giant Nestlé, for example, partnered with AVEVA to enhance how it manufactured Nesquik and Ovaltine. As a result, Nestlé cut powder waste by 10 per cent – equivalent to saving one jar for every 10 produced – while improving product uniformity and reducing spillage. These savings provide substantial material and sustainability gains over time. Optimisation translates directly into commercial value, too. For instance, major US healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente implemented a connected energy ecosystem across more than 1,200 buildings, including hospitals and data centres. The health group identified millions of dollars in savings through tariff optimisation, relocating oversized fuel cells and introducing night-time energy reduction strategies in buildings that aren’t used 24/7. Can you explain how AI technology is reshaping the industrial ecosystem? AI is helping organisations turn colossal amounts of operational and engineering data into actionable intelligence. INDUSTRIALS & MANUFACTURING Photo: Alamy/René van den Berg
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