Case Study: Wilmar Sugar achieves improved safety, efficiency and productivity with Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Plant

How EcoStruxureTM Plant is improving safety, efficiency, and productivity with an easy-touse solution

Wilmar Sugar, Australia’s leading raw sugar manufacturer and biomass energy producer operating eight Queensland mills (Invicta Mill crushes ~3.2 million tonnes/year), faced end-of-life boiler control equipment that threatened safety and reliability during the continuous six-month crushing season. Wilmar engaged Schneider Electric to modernize the Invicta Mill control system and embed safety protocols, seeking a single easy-to-use interface to support 24/7 operations and simplify maintenance.

Schneider Electric delivered its EcoStruxure Plant architecture—deploying Modicon M580 Safety PLCs, protection relays, graphical interfaces and AVEVA Citect SCADA—to consolidate multiple controllers into one unified system with remote mobile access. The Schneider Electric solution standardized hardware and software (X80 I/O), reduced spare-part and maintenance complexity, increased factory automation and real‑time visibility, and improved safety, efficiency and productivity across the mill’s operations.

Wilmar Sugar

Russell Brown

General Manager for Asset Management