CASE STUDY FINDING SEVEN MILLION POUNDS OF LOST MILK... AND $600K IN SAVINGS MORE EFFICIENT OPERATION THROUGH DATA SCIENCE Reducing Material Loss Through More Precise Production Management Challenge: Recover Seven Million Pounds of Lost Milk A milk processing plant processes approximately 750,000 pounds of fluid milk per day (5.5M lbs weekly), and it receives milk seven days a week. The processing and bottling areas of the plant operate three shifts per day, six days per week. Daily cleaning of tankers, tanks, lines and other processing equipment occurs by using four different systems. The plant was experiencing overall milk loss or shrink of 2.5% (in terms of total raw materials and finished product loss). This repre - sented approximately 7 million pounds per year of lost milk,

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