Industrial Analytics for Chocolate Production

Ensure safety, energy efficiency, and quality in every step of chocolate manufacturing with TrendMiner.

TrendMiner for Chocolate Manufacturing

Transform your chocolate production process with TrendMiner’s data-driven insights. From optimizing roasting and conching to ensuring precise quality control during cocoa pressing and molding, our platform empowers you to fine-tune every stage for maximum efficiency and consistency. With real-time monitoring and early anomaly detection, TrendMiner helps you maintain perfect texture, flavor, and safety in every batch, reducing costs and enhancing product excellence.

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Tailored analytics solutions to optimize efficiency, quality, and compliance in chocolate manufacturing.

Ensuring a Secure & Consistent Cocoa Pressing Process

Industry Problem:

Cocoa presses operate under extreme pressures (>500 bars), leading to potential failures, downtime, and safety hazards.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Real-time pressure monitoring with early anomaly detection.
  • Ensures stable and safe operations while optimizing yield.
  • Data correlation between output flow rates and pressure to predict wear and prevent failures.

Asset(s):

  • Cocoa press

Optimizing Roasting Efficiency for Maximum Savings

Industry Problem:

Roasting consumes excessive energy (120-200ºC for 20+ minutes), leading to high operational costs.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Tracks energy usage across multiple roasting conditions.
  • Identifies bottlenecks in energy consumption through visual analytics.
  • Defines ideal operating conditions for cost-efficient roasting.

Asset(s):

  • Roaster

Related use cases:

  • Prevent mills attrition and energy consumption

Precision Roasting for Superior Cocoa Powder

Industry Problem:

Inconsistent roasting affects flavor, moisture levels, and quality differentiation.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Tracks temperature, time, energy use, and product flow.
  • Provides visual trend analysis for recipe optimization.
  • Ensures batch consistency and premium-quality cocoa powder.

Asset(s):

  • Roaster

Related use cases:

  • Detecting performance losses - Husk & grue separation
  • Reducing low weight complaints

Perfecting Chocolate Through Conching

Industry Problem:

Conching impacts chocolate smoothness, mouthfeel, and sensory experience.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Monitors aeration, evaporation, and duration for ideal texture and flavor.
  • Compares conching conditions across batches for process refinement.
  • Enhances consumer satisfaction with data-driven quality control.

Asset(s):

  • Conching machine

Optimizing Conching Time Without Compromising Quality

Industry Problem:

Conching can take 12 hours to days, delaying production and increasing costs.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Provides full traceability of production batch conditions.
  • Monitors key parameters (mold weight, rotor speed, tank levels).
  • Detects deviations early to prevent complaints and maintain compliance.

Asset(s):

  • Conching machine

Related use cases:

  • Report & monitor butter production
  • Overview of conches and batches (followup)
  • Optimization of batch cycle time
  • Conveyor belt shaft torque monitoring

Preventing Complaints & Ensuring Consistent Quality

Industry Problem:

Inconsistencies in product weight and formulation impact brand trust.

TrendMiner’s Solution:

  • Provides full traceability of production batch conditions.
  • Monitors key parameters (mold weight, rotor speed, tank levels).
  • Detects deviations early to prevent complaints and maintain compliance.

Asset(s):

  • Molding machines

Cocoa Processing Steps

Cocoa processing from bean to chocolate

TrendMiner’s Added Value

Make Operational Decisions Faster and with Confidence

TrendMiner’s self-service analytics capabilities help to discover what is happening, analyze why anomalies ocured and predict what is likely to happen. Through extensive but easy to use search capabilities, such as pattern based similarity search and compare tables, to anomaly detection and recommendations.

Analyze Anything, Anytime, Anywhere for Everyone

The TrendMiner platform is fast, powerful and intuitive for everyone in operations to get insights on any part of the production process. Pattern analysis reduces the complexity & simplifies interpretation of analysis results, while dashboards can be created without technical assistance so everyone can take action based on the data.

Collaborate Globally & Share Captured Knowledge

The created value from a wide variety of use cases and solutions can be shared and rolled out globally for maximizing value from the TrendMiner platform. Capabilities such as monitoring and alerting, dashboards and reports optimize knowledge capturing, sharing and collaboration at each level of the organization.

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Chocolate Production Process?