🧀 Dairy Industry Monitoring volumes, times, yields and deviations with BRAINR

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July 6, 2025

🥛 Producing well is not enough — you have to measure, control and adjust

In the dairy industry, the difference between controlled production and maladjusted production can be a matter of hours... or liters.

Milk doesn't wait, expiration dates are short, yields can vary from day to day, and a small deviation in a coagulation tank can compromise an entire batch of fresh cheese or curd cheese.

It is in this scenario that the 🧠 BRAINR becomes essential: a platform that accompanies each phase of dairy production — from receiving raw milk to packaging — with an absolute focus on volumes, times, performance, and operational deviations.

👁️ ‍ 🗨️ Everything under control: volume by volume, minute by minute

With BRAINR, each phase of the production process is rigorously monitored:

📥 actual volumes of milk received
🧪 losses due to filtration or homogenization
⏱️ clotting, maturation and healing times
🧾 income per vat or per batch
🚨 process deviation alerts

Each operator digitally records their activity. Each lot has a complete history. Nothing is left “in the technician's excel sheet”.

🧀 Real example: lower yield in fresh cheese

Tuesday, 8:00 a.m. An order comes in for 600 kg of fresh cheese. At 10:30 the technical manager notices that Cuba 2's yield is 87%, compared to the expected 92%.

📲 In BRAINR:

  • Check that the clotting time was 8 minutes higher than normal
  • Confirm that milk had a lower protein content (laboratory data)
  • See operator comments: “inconsistent mass at the exit of the mold”

⚠️ Result? Lower income and risk of complaints.
The alert goes straight to quality, and the decision is immediate: the next batch changes from Cuba.

⏲️ Times for each phase: from the planned real to the actual executed

In the manufacture of yogurt, for example, BRAINR allows you to cross:

  • Predicted fermentation time vs real time
  • Start-up time vs filling time
  • unplanned stops
  • setup time per machine

Production is no longer a “black box” — it's a line with lights on at every critical point.

📊 Deviations under control, performance under magnifying glass

If the Flamengo cheese yield is consistently below 90% in one of the lines, BRAINR clearly shows this. And does it help to understand the “why”: machine? milk? team?

When everything goes well, the system learns. When there are deviations, the system explains.

Informed decisions. Always.

At the end of the shift, the production director has full visibility:

📈 income per product
⏱️ real vs forecast times
📦 volumes produced vs planned
📉 justified losses and chargebacks
🗒️ technical and operational comments

💡 Because in the dairy industry, Controlling is as important as producing.
And with BRAINR, the plant starts to do both things - the second, the liter and with full traceability.

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