The largest producer of sunflower oil in Russia "Blago" launched a digital double of an entire plant

2024: Digital lookalikes launch

The Blago group of companies has introduced the first Russian low-code artificial intelligence platform SberMobile AloT to create a digital twin of an oil extraction plant. This became known in December 2024.

The new platform combined eight lines of automated process control systems, 22 weight terminals and more than 177 different sensors, meters, flow meters and level gauges into a single system.

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The integrated platform allows you to automate the collection of production status data, analyze them, monitor signals from equipment and laboratory research, create ML production models and predict the needs of the enterprise.

Over the year of operation of the system, the total economic effect amounted to ₽50 million due to a reduction in equipment downtime, a decrease in raw material losses during processing and an increase in product quality.

The platform creates a single situational and analytical center that forms a digital twin of the enterprise. This allows you to monitor all production processes in real time and quickly respond to any changes in the operation of the equipment.

The implementation of the system required considerable time and preparatory work, including the integration of various devices, sensors and services into a single production process management platform.

The created digital environment allows not only to control current processes, but also to predict the need for technical work, which contributes to optimizing the production cycle and reducing costs.^[1]

2022: The beginning of the creation of digital twins for 200 million rubles

The Russian manufacturer of vegetable oils "Blago" creates digital twins of its plants. To do this, the group at the end of December 2022 entered into an agreement with Sberbank.

The parties agreed to create a "Digital Production Twin" oil extraction plant based on SberMobile IIoT the Platform platform and the Digital Production software and hardware complex of the Sbermobile company.

Russian vegetable oil manufacturer Blago creates digital doubles of its plants

As noted in Sberbank, the SberMobile IIoT Platform allows you to create a digital copy of production assets and oil production processes from the stage of impersonal acceptance of raw materials, processing to the release of finished products. The implementation of the platform solution will eliminate the cost of combining automation solutions of all product redistributions, create a single cloud of production data and build a decision-making process based on data directly from sensors and production lines using machine learning technology.

At the first stage, the technology will be introduced at the Verkhnekhavsky oil extraction plant located in the Voronezh region. In the future, the solution will be scaled up to all production sites of the group of companies. The total investment may amount to more than 200 million rubles.

The implementation of the project will increase the efficiency and accuracy of collecting quantitative data, reduce the time for response and management decisions, and completely eliminate the human factor in monitoring the technological process at work.

The new system will help solve current problems, but more importantly, its implementation will become the foundation for a large-scale digital transformation of our industries, the basis for the transition to Industry 4.0, including the development of expert systems and technologies of artificial intelligence for further optimization of processes, energy consumption, and production analytics. The decision of "Sbermobile" is suitable for the implementation of such large-scale tasks, - said Dmitry Fosman, General Director of "Blago Invest."