Founded in 1986, Angel Yeast Co., Ltd. is a listed company specializing in the development and operation of high-quality, environmentally friendly yeast products, yeast derivatives, and related biological products. These products are widely used in food additives and feed additives. With factories established in more than 10 cities across China, Angel Yeast actively responds to the national "Belt and Road" initiative, leveraging its strengths to expand into overseas markets, and has already implemented projects in countries such as Egypt and Russia. Starting from 2018, Angel Yeast piloted digital factory initiatives, which have been extended to the construction and operation of multiple factories, resulting in steady improvements in production intelligence and quality control capabilities. With the assistance of Wellthinic Technology, Angel Yeast has established a digital factory that covers all aspects from raw material procurement and entry into the factory to finished product outbound. After the system was delivered and put into use, collaboration efficiency was significantly enhanced. This has greatly elevated the digitalization level of its production lines, contributing to its further development.

Customer Pain Points

• The independent operation of various systems results in poor data sharing across systems and extended material inventory cycles.

• The powder weighing process is designed for large-scale continuous production, leading to extended ingredient weighing times and a high demand for operators.

• Manual weighing and ingredient feeding increase the likelihood of errors, posing significant quality risks.

• Manual entry of material information during production elevates the risk of documentation errors.

• The inability to automatically disseminate critical process parameters through the upper-level decision-making system elevates the risk of quality issues due to manual errors or unauthorized modifications.

Our Solutions

• Develop electronic batch records that comply with QS/GMP standards to replace manual documentation.

• Implement comprehensive quality supervision, control, and analysis throughout the entire production process to enhance the food safety system.

• Combine barcode technology, RFID technology, and execution control designs to minimize human intervention as much as feasible.

• Integrate ERP and PCS7 control systems with equipment including packaging machines, Yongchuang robots, X-ray inspection machines, and coding machines.

Implementation Effect

• The electronic batch record coverage has been elevated to 90%, substantially reducing the time spent on manual documentation while effectively mitigating the risks of errors associated with manual recording.

• Overall production efficiency has witnessed a 10% improvement, with notable gains observed in process transition efficiency.

• Modules for line-side inventory management, weighing and dispatch, and material feeding are tightly integrated, enhancing the correctness and precision of material feeding by more than 15%, thereby ensuring robust quality stability.

• Periodic material inventory efficiency has been boosted by several dozen times, with completion time shortened from 1-2 hours to mere minutes.

• Formula management, material management, and key production process parameters are seamlessly integrated, effectively mitigating the risks of manual input errors and record tampering.

Wellthinic Supports the In-depth Development of Angel Yeast Factories

• 2018 --2019Angel's (Food Ingredients) Digital Factory APS&MES&WMS pilot project (Phase I)

• 2020 -- 2021Angel's (Nutritional Foods) Digital Factory Automation & MES & WVMS project (Phase II)

• 2021 –2022Angel's Health Food Digital Factory  the promotion project (Phase III) 

• 2022--Angel  (Yeast Packaging Line) full-factory process automation project 

  PCS7+BATCH control system upgrade and renovation project