71 mills, one screen
PTPN IV head office used to read mill conditions from daily WhatsApp reports. Always yesterday's numbers. Now 71 palm oil mills across Indonesia show up on one screen, with data arriving every second.
The problem
Palm oil mills sit deep in the plantations. Head office is in Jakarta. Production reports went out by hand, once a day.
So management always read numbers 24 hours late. A boiler acting up this morning? Head office finds out tomorrow.
What we did
- 02 · Logic
Get the data at the mill
At the first 12 mills our team installed PLCs and remote I/O to pick up process data: boiler steam pressure, throughput, sterilizer cycles.
- 03 · Telemetry
Send it from the middle of nowhere
Data travels over MQTT and OPC-UA via VSAT, with 4G cellular as well. However remote the mill, it still reports in.
- 04 · Screen
Show it to the people who need it
One web portal for head office. A map of every mill, a dashboard per mill, SCADA mimics, and reports anyone can download.
The result
- 71 mills registered in one system. It started with 12 mills in 2024.
- Data comes in automatically every second. It used to be once a day.
- Reports download straight from the MIMS portal, any time.
The system keeps growing. Our lightning sensors now ride on the same data link.