Benefits
Financial benefits of our systems …
Our general aim has always been to get payback within the first year of operation for the full system. Some examples follow
Cheese Weight Monitor and Control
– Used to monitor and weigh 20Kg blocks of curd in cheese production.
- Cost to install, typically $120,000.
- Saved $350,000 to $500,000 per annum in lost product per site, and reduced re-processing by 5%
Dairy Transport Monitoring System
– Cost to install, typically $85,000, excluding weighbridges
- Used to check weigh trucks on arrival back at site after collecting milk from farms. Gave a real time picture of milk flow during the day and helped schedule trucks for maximum efficiency and loading. Affects time of arrival on site so unloading backlogs do not occur.
- Capable of handling up to 80 weighings per hour, frequently doing 900 weighings (450 gross and tare) in a 24 hour period.
- Allowed pre-selection of milk mix by fat/protein ratios that created 12% increase in yield for cheese plant, about $5000 per week.
Forestry Data Collection System.
– Cost to install, $6500 per site
- In use now for 20 years (probably one of the longest for a computer system).
- Provides accurate data entry for bush docket data, reducing error rate from 40% to 5% before getting to invoicing system.
- Many of these benefits are intangible ie don’t have a measurable cost benefit, but the downstream effects are substantial. The escalating costs for not having it could easily reach $2000 per day.