Cognition has deployed dozens of IoT data-capture sensors in one of Ireland's oldest bakeries, feeding real-time production information into Cognition’s analytics platform. The platform alerts when production falls out of tolerance with pre-determined standards. Alerts target performance anomalies where savings can be made in energy or production quality. Powered by Cognition, the bakery captures over 30,000 data points every week to help it understand those historically hard to track but expensive issues, such as:

• Ensuring gas and electricity ovens are being used at times of optimum tariff and national grid efficiency
• Over-cooling of freezers and efficiency of refrigeration
• Quality of the dough production by intelligently managing both temperature and humidity
• Consistency of the bakery's quality standards for temperature, shift patterns and machine use
• Water temperature tracking to negate the need for additional chilling of water pre-production

The outcome of using intelligent alarming to manage activities is a reduction in operational costs, reduced costs of non-compliance and much more efficient production processes, making the our clients some of the leanest food producers in Europe.

-Client Managing Director

Cognition have launched a new product to help food producers and processors comply with Bord Bia’s (The Irish Food Board) sustainability management standard Origin Green (OG). We've made it simple and easy so users just log in to our online portal and add the data in their own time.

Why Smart Origin Green? The Smart Origin Green portal from Cognition helps you start the journey towards optimisation of energy consumption. Client data is captured in an online Origin Green sustainability report designed to simplify the capture of the evidence required for better sustainability management.

The key benefits include:

• Accessed anywhere by anyone in the company (no more sharing spreadsheets over email)
• Tracks % completion of progress of all OG requirements
• Encourages higher levels of OG certification (underperforming members will be removed from the programme)
• A single version of the truth for sustainability data (no more scrambling around to understand the current numbers)
• Leads to higher levels of awareness among staff as to what is going on (ideal for on-boarding new recruits)
• Ensure greater levels of take-up in Origin Green compliance inside the firm
• Helps businesses trade more confidently with other OG companies and grow internationally
• Can be upgraded to auto-populated data from our IoT sensors and data analytics with Operational Intelligence

In a large food processing plant Cognition has deployed dozens of unobtrusive IoT data-capture sensors, feeding real-time operations information into Cognition’s analytics platform. The platform alerts when activity falls out of tolerance with the client’s pre-determined operational standards. Alerts target performance anomalies where savings can be made in energy, asset usage or productivity. Powered by Cognition, the plant captures almost 100 live metrics to help understand hard to monitor but expensive issues, such as:

• Tracking chiller door activity for productivity and compliance
• Monitoring the movement of people and occupancy of storage areas containing critical-stock
• Visibility of out-of-time asset usage and non-compliance with internal standards
• Monitoring light levels during and outside of operational hours

The outcome of using Cognition's operational intelligence to manage activities is a reduction in operational costs, reduced costs of non-compliance and much more efficient production processes.