Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, operating on a massive scale with a leading portfolio in the food, personal care, and home care categories. With highly complex industrial operations, the Indaiatuba facility serves as a strategic hub that requires maximum operational efficiency and reliability to support its large production capacity.
Before the partnership, the company faced the challenge of managing the maintenance of its assets manually, which limited visibility into the actual condition of its rotating equipment and lubrication systems. This reliance on non-digital processes increased the risk of unscheduled machine downtime and generated significant maintenance costs, making it difficult to anticipate critical failures in essential components at its four industrial plants.
The implementation of IBBX solutions enabled the complete digitization of more than 1,300 monitored points, allowing for integrated diagnostics of vibration, temperature, and electrical data. Within 12 months of the partnership, the intelligence of IBBX solutions detected serious anomalies early on, such as increased friction in a primary fan, preventing 14 hours of machine downtime and generating savings of over R$ 1.4 million from a single diagnosis. The overall result was the elimination of significant maintenance costs and the optimization of asset reliability across the entire production chain.
