CASE STUDY REDUCING WATER USAGE SAVES A DAIRY PROCESSOR OVER $1 MILLION PER YEAR MORE EFFICIENT OPERATION THROUGH DATA SCIENCE Reducing Water Usage in Sanitization for Improved Quality, Productivity and Profits Challenge A dairy plant that processes 4.5 million gallons of fluid milk and 500,000 pounds of powdered milk daily set a goal to reduce the amount of water and steam used in its facilities. Dairy processors typically use two gallons of water for every gallon of consumer product produced. Much of that water is used in Clean-in-Place systems and manual cleaning processes. To reduce water usage and increase productivity, managers needed greater insight. But like most plants of its kind, this facility had no internal metering. The only way to examine the plant’s water and e

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