Unilever, a global brand of FMCG and CPG products is currently the one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. It is available in more than 190 countries and has 148 thousands of employees around the world.
To keep up with the growing market demand, Unilever uses robots as well as to maintain their production highly automated. The brand is also aware of sophisticated technologies necessity, here using digital twins and ЗD modeling to collect statistical data, assess technological and logistic processes and optimize them. Digital technologies allow Unilever to implement the lean production strategy, collect analytics and analyze those on operations, product lines and sites. All of this on the highest technological level. Our digital solutions have helped Unilever specialists to simulate drastic changes and modernizations of existing lines and to debug manufacturing processes when launching new products. Gathered analytics became a necessity in the need to increase productivity and efficiency of equipment while reducing its downtime, which was especially important in the time of sudden shifts in production due to various factors, seasonal change in our case, whеn production volume depended on the frequency of exact product being bought by customers. Our company has created a Digital Twin of deodorant production lines in time of unexpected need of Unilever to switch between summer and winter amount of goods. The Digital Twin of the production line helped to assess the changes needed in manufacturing to achieve the required production volume, avoiding trial and error method in real life: there was no need in this as potential errors were noticed during the simulation.
Such Digital Twin can be created for your company as well and be later sent to the robotic industry companies and system integrators to keep up with the plan identified.
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