Case Study

Amalgamated Sugar

Learn how Amalgamated Sugar used dataPARC to reduce production costs by enabling data-driven decision-making.

Amalgamated Sugar’s Story

Amalgamated Sugar facilitates all areas of sugar beet growth and sugar production of industrial and retail sugar products and has done so since 1897. Amalgamated Sugar is the second-largest US sugar beet processor, growing sugar beets on approximately 180,000 acres in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Amalgamated Sugar strives to reduce their environmental footprint by running efficient sugar beet production.

“We were trying to optimize the largest facility in our company and PARCview allowed us to overlay data – both lab and process – to break down perceptive barriers and make data-driven decisions.”

Stan Case, Technical Assistant, Amalgamated Sugar

Shared Data

All individual sites can now access and view process data from each other site all at once.

50,000 Process Tags

Combined data from DCS and PLC systems and the needs of each lab.

Real-Time Data Access

Operators, engineers, & managers now access process data in seconds instead of hours or days.

Amalgamated Sugar’s Challenges

Amalgamated Sugar was diving into more challenging product structures and operations leadership understood that the current tools were not delivering. There were many challenges including combining data from multiple databases, the lack of ability to easily connect to multiple data sources and present the data in one window, difficulty correlating and filtering data, and lack of intuitive tools for analysis.

The dataPARC Solution

dataPARC’s PARCview quickly showed its capabilities. Stability was improved in several key customer quality requirements. Internal process monitoring tasks were simplified with the aid of PARCview’s grade-based “Run Browser” and “Centerlining” tools, along with the “Golden Run” concept.