One section
A withering trough bank and one dryer, or one raw-milk silo and the pasteuriser, or one silo and the mill feeder. Not the whole estate.
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Agro-processing
Tea, dairy and grain milling. Open one dashboard.
The plant
Green leaf, raw milk and grain already move on a clock. Industrial IoT keeps the stage that decides quality — withering, the hold tube, the silo headspace — with the batch, and shapes the exception into a job in FactoraERP. This is a processing plant. Open-field soil and livestock stay in FarmMate.
Factory dashboards
Each plant type has its own view. Open one.
Agro-processing
A Kenyan CTC tea factory
Black tea, made the CTC way: green leaf arrives from buying centres and leaves as graded, packed made tea. This page is the proposed pilot. It is not a report of measured savings.
Agro-processing
Dairy
Raw milk stays cold, the hold tube stays at the legal temperature, and the finished store does not drift.
Agro-processing
Grain milling
Silo level, headspace humidity and the mill or oven line. The same dashboard covers a bakery when the plant bakes as well as mills.
Agro-processing
Edible oils
Press temperature, oil flow and the tank that is being filled. Cold rooms are left off unless the plant actually has one.
Agro-processing
Grain storage
Level, headspace climate and the dryer. A hot silo is a spoilage alarm, not a surprise at out-turn.
Agro-processing
Protected cropping
Canopy climate and irrigation for a greenhouse. Open-field soil and livestock stay in FarmMate.
Where a first line usually starts
- Out-turn is argued from two books: green leaf in, made tea out.
- Withering fans and the dryer dominate the electricity, and the monthly bill does not say which.
- A warm milk silo or a hot grain headspace is found on the next shift, not on this one.
Meters already on RS485
Grid, generator and the stage feeder. Reuse a meter the plant already trusts. The survey says which ones.
The batch the shift already names
Invoice, lot or manufacture order in FactoraERP. The reading is filed against that, not against a new code.
From the sensor to the action
- 01
Sense
Stage temperature and humidity, fan and dryer energy, silo level, hold-tube temperature, door contacts where a cold room exists.
- 02
Connect
An industrial gateway at the process area polls Modbus RTU and RS485 and calls out over HTTPS or MQTT. A site router covers Ethernet meters and the LTE uplink.
- 03
Platform
Industrial IoT checks the per-sensor token and stores the reading against that factory only. Demo readings stay labelled.
- 04
Insight
Out-turn, specific electricity, hold time and headspace humidity for the shift. The first measured month is the baseline.
- 05
ERP action
Downtime, energy and a quality drift are shaped into a work order, a batch record and a cost in FactoraERP. That exchange is commissioned with the implementation.