Complete product traceability

DANEC Industrial, the first Ecuadorian company to make products from African palm oil, lacked a video surveillance system to ensure security and provide oversight of its operations. This had resulted in unauthorized personnel access and a lack of control over its operations. As part of a certification requiring compliance with high quality standards, the company needed to demonstrate rigorous, comprehensive control over all processes in the production, packaging, shipping and transport of its products, including oversight of its plantations and extraction processing operations located throughout the country – as well as in the operations of its distribution partners.

DANEC’s technology division did such a careful job that it enabled the company to receive the Business Alliance for Secure Commerce (BASC) certification. This means a high standard of security and meticulous oversight of its products’ raw materials during all phases of production until final packaging, which prevents any tampering or removal by unauthorized personnel. Just by resolving the issue of controlling weighing scales alone, the entire installation paid for itself.

Leveraging the infrastructure developed for this project, DANEC Industrial also decided to implement video analytics to achieve access control over vehicles carrying loads of raw materials that enter into its plant in Quito as well as the company’s various extraction facilities.

Because this solution minimizes the amount of data entry required by scale operators, errors are prevented. It is now more difficult to alter the actual total weight of the received load and impact payments the company remits to its suppliers.

This solution has created substantial savings for DANEC Industrial and considerably streamlined its operations. ”Just by resolving the issue of control over the weighing scales alone, the project has fully paid for itself,” confirms Fernando Yánez, sales manager at FullData, who notes that the success of this implementation has opened the door for applying analytics on future production oversight, to avoid waste and automate more processes – through the use of technology by Axis and ISS.