Case Study: Orley Foods achieves full product traceability and reduced fat usage with AVEVA (Wonderware System Platform)

World-class Chocolate Manufacturing with a Little Help From Wonderware

Orley Foods, a South African chocolate manufacturer, needed full product traceability, tighter process control and seamless integration between plant systems and its Syspro ERP to meet HACCP/ISO requirements and customer audit demands. To address these challenges they selected AVEVA’s Wonderware solutions—specifically Wonderware System Platform (ArchestrA) and InTouch HMI—with a local integrator to re‑engineer the plant control and information infrastructure.

AVEVA implemented a plant‑wide SCADA/ historian model, integrated work orders from Syspro, and upgraded PLC/IO so operators could monitor recipes, track raw material allocations and trace batches end‑to‑end. The AVEVA solution delivered consistent batch sizes, tracked fat usage by work order, standardized batch processing times, minimized formulation corrections and produced detailed traceability reports—resulting in significant savings in costly fats (Cocoa Butter), better troubleshooting and a single source of production truth.

Orley Foods

Henk de Villiers

Operations Manager