🧀 Dairy Plant Planning: The Brain That Ensures Order in Chaos

If you work in a dairy factory, you are well aware of this scenario: it's 5 in the morning, the tank truck has just unloaded the fresh milk, the pasteurization tank is heating up, and there are already sales calls in the office asking if it is possible to anticipate that batch of cured cheese.

In the midst of this whirlwind, there is a question that defines the day: “Do we have enough milk - and capacity - to accomplish everything planned?”

🧠 Planning with real intelligence: from fresh milk to cured cheese

The module of Master Production Plan BRAINR's (MPS) allows managers to plan with a global vision, but with the granularity that the dairy industry requires.

Why? Because here it is not enough to know what will be produced. It is necessary to know How much milk do we have available today, how much is reserved for fermented products, how much will cure and how much needs to be pasteurized before the afternoon shift.

With BRAINR, all of this is visible and controllable in one place. It is planned based on:

• Actual milk availability (daily, by type and origin)
• Priorities by product family: fresh and cured cheeses, butters, creams, yogurts
• Capacity of tanks, maturation tanks and curing chambers
• Shipping windows and shelf-life per customer

🧪 MRP that respects biology and time

In the dairy industry, there's no room for delays — fermentation doesn't wait, and curing has its own rhythms. For this reason, the Production Needs Planning BRAINR (MRP) takes into account:

• Pasteurization and rest times by type of product
• Chained orders (ex: milk → curd → cheese → cure → packaging)
• Future availability - such as milk that is yet to be delivered or products that come out of cure within days

With one click, the planning manager transforms the needs of the MPS into proposals for concrete production orders: fermentation of red fruit yogurt, batching of butter with urgent shipment, repackaging of long-cured cheeses for export.

📆 Visual planning with interactive GANTT

All of this can be visualized with the BRAINR GANTT chart: a clear and dynamic representation of production cycles, where it is possible to:

• See Slots occupied by each process (pasteurization, fermentation, curing)
• Rearrange orders with drag-and-drop
• Simulate scenarios with different priority orders or milk volumes

All this with a user experience designed to detail, accessible even to those who spend half the day wearing white gown, cap and boots.

💡 Real cases, real pain

👉 Production of cured cheese: With BRAINR, planning already includes predicting space in the healing chambers, and automatically alerts when there is a risk of overcrowding.

👉 Butter and cream production: Fine planning of cream batches, knowing that the fat available per milk delivery varies daily - and impacts yields.

👉 Fermented products (yogurts): Planning based on incubation and cooling cycles, respecting shelf-life and minimum stabilization times before packing.

👉 Mixtures and flavors: The system already knows that, if it is necessary to make strawberries, it is better to make vanilla before and not after - to minimize the risk of contamination and cleaning between flavors.

📉 The result?

• Less waste of milk and raw materials
• Better use of the plant's physical capacities
• Deliveries on time, even with long-cycle products
• Stress reduction and improvisation in everyday life

🧠 BRAINR: the brain behind your cheese

The beauty of planning with BRAINR isn't just in the algorithms. It lies in how it translates complex factory problems - such as cures, thermal cycles, shelf-life, variable yields - into simple and automatic decisions, which are adjusted to reality every day.

At the end of the day, the real value is this: ensuring that each liter of milk is well used, each cycle is respected, and each customer gets exactly what they ordered - with quality, punctuality and margin.

And that, in a dairy factory, is priceless.

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