Food Grade Ethanol Industry

Our basic expertise in creating customized mass and energy balances for large manufacturing facilities will be directly applicable for producers of Food Grade Ethanol. Having tools that enhance planning, communication and coordination across the plant and among supply and value chain partners will result in cost savings, higher profitability, and greater return on existing assets.

The ability to ‘manage the future’ with our software pays ongoing dividends at our client’s facilities. We enable data-driven decisions to be made every day by Operations and management personnel, in real time, by making it easy to see the quantitative implications of specific actions. All our clients use Prospector to plan and execute Maintenance Outages, large and small. Troubleshooting tools allow supervisors and operators to see when productivity indicators are changing.

Plants that deal with variable raw materials (corn, grains, wood, etc.) and large mass flows that are difficult to accurately measure have a unique need for our Prospector Predictive Modeling software. We now have experience in modeling large fermentation systems in the Fuel Ethanol industry, and look forward to leveraging that knowledge as we seek collaborative working agreements with manufacturers of Food Grade Ethanol in the near future.

Prospector utilizes plant data of all types and from any source: historian, DCS, lab software, scheduling tools, recipe systems, Internet-based pricing databases, and even spreadsheets. Our customized mass and energy balance formulas convert that data into useful information, predicting future production levels, plant inventories, energy and raw material usage, and expected costs and profitability.

Productivity and profitability are increased as a result of better planning, communication, and collaboration across shifts and throughout the chain of command.

We’re gearing up to be the industry leader for dynamic predictive process simulation in this market, leveraging our manufacturing roots and experiences from other market segments. Our goal is to work with plants who have a high level of motivation for improving productivity, whose leaders understand and appreciate the value of advanced manufacturing tools and techniques (like Lean Six Sigma), and want to take the next step towards “Smart Manufacturing.”