No real-time factory visibility
The company lacked a full live view of plant operations. Sites on five continents needed a better flow of information across the business.
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Case Study · Antdata + Upfield
Ku lepszej chmurze. Wdrożenie partnera Antdata w firmie Upfield
OEE w czasie rzeczywistym na 5 kontynentach
Case study
Factories of the future, powered by Microsoft IoT
Antdata helped Upfield automate production processes across distributed plants with a Microsoft IoT data-flow architecture.
Factories of the future are no longer just frames from sci-fi films. This project is living proof: IoT in manufacturing enables significant process automation—even across dispersed plants and factories.
The challenge
Why IoT — the client’s pain points
Upfield faced typical manufacturing issues that cut into profits and disrupted production efficiency.
OEE across every line
The main gap was production-line effectiveness (OEE) in all factories—hard to compare and improve without shared, timely data.
Centralized analysis missing
Measurements, controls, and quality checks without real-time analysis were unreliable and weighed on enterprise results and profitability.
The solution
Microsoft IoT with a data-flow architecture
Antdata addressed these pain points by implementing Microsoft IoT and a data-flow architecture to improve production processes and data management between factories.
Step 1 connected and integrated multiple sources: IoT terminals, ERP systems and databases, and dedicated apps for production-line operators.
The results
From fragmented plants to shared production data
Connected global operations
IoT, ERP, and operator apps feed one architecture so plants across continents can share operational information.
OEE in focus
Production-line effectiveness becomes measurable and comparable across factories instead of trapped in local systems.
Data ready for deep analysis
Centralized sources give production teams a foundation for real-time measurement, quality control, and deeper analysis.