Case Study: Votorantim Cimentos uncovers process optimizations with Braincube

Leverage empirical knowledge and uncover new opportunities

Votorantim Cimentos, a major Brazilian construction materials company, faced the challenge of effectively leveraging the immense amount of data generated by its cement production processes. Their teams spent excessive time manually wrangling data to find correlations, and the industry's reliance on empirical operator knowledge made innovation difficult. They partnered with the IIoT platform vendor Braincube to find a digital solution that would accelerate analysis and uncover new optimization opportunities.

Using Braincube's Digital Twin and analytics apps, Votorantim built a dynamic model of their production process. This allowed them to test scenarios and analyze variable interactions without affecting live operations. Braincube enabled the team to identify key variables impacting nitrogen oxide emissions and operational costs that were previously overlooked. The solution accelerated engineer learning, broke operational paradigms, and optimized resources, leading to significant cost reductions. Votorantim is now scaling Braincube across all units to standardize knowledge and drive further improvements.

Votorantim Cimentos

Caroline Bonfim

Engineer