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RCL Pongola sugar mill specializes in two types of sugar,
mainly the refined sugar and the brown sugar for direct consumption,
as well as for the industrial market.
My name is Alan Williamson.
I'm the Manufacturing Executive at RCL Foods, Pongola Sugar Mill.
The biggest challenge faced by RCL when they took over Pongola Sugar Mill
was that the plant is very old, and in desperate need of modernization.
I am Amos Matingane, the Instrument and Control Engineer at RCL Foods
here in Pongola Mill.
The value and the benefits of working with their Master Alliance system
integrator, particularly control software solution,
is the support that they give you and their knowledge base
on the subject matter, particularly the Schneider Electric
software in the AVEVA.
My name is Pieter Venter.
I'm a Director and one of the founders of CSS.
Our partnership with Schneider Electric is made stronger
since we've become a Master Alliance partner.
And we really add value by jointly promoting
and actively encourage the profitability increase and the value-add
that we can deliver to our customers [INAUDIBLE]..
Since our RCL Mill runs off the grid, generating
all the in-house electricity, they required optimal performance
and no downtime.
We have established a remote log-in for our system integrator.
The Master Alliance partner CSS.
So they are able to assist us at any given point in time
without having to drive on site.
System platform unifies all applications in the central hub.
It allows the platform on which we integrate the process historian,
the remote viewing with remote clients, the local clients, the historian
clients, all connected into the system platform.
With the implementation of the current system,
the root cause and failure in analysis process is very simple to follow and do
because you've got the Wonderware historian, which
is under the AVEVA stable, which helps you
to do your alarming and events of what happens at any given point in time.
Wonderware Historian Client is actively used
not just to look at the trend data, but to actively
look at diagnostics and the historical information
for both process and digital variables in the plot.
Efficiency for maintenance personnel has increased drastically,
looking at the fact that, now, there's more information that Schneider
Electric helped us bring about to do diagnostics, which
makes them get to problems quicker.
Schneider Electric, with their EcoStruxure
and all of the connected products in the IoT space,
separate themselves from other vendors because they still
retain the backward compatibility like no other vendor does in our market.
The major advantages acquired or obtained
working with Schneider Electric products, mainly
the simplicity of the products.
And also, the backward compatibility with the old
and also the integration with the old legacy systems that we had.
Our vision for the future is to continue modernizing the plant in partnership
with Schneider Electric, and to achieve a mission of more food to more people,
more often.
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