ZYNTEA: Transforming Tea Industry with AI

Inconsistent Blend Quality

Challenge: Manual errors and lack of real-time monitoring often result in variations that affect the taste and aroma of the final product.

Solution: Zyntea®'s advanced real-time dashboard ensures precision and consistency, safeguarding the signature flavor profile of every batch.

Inefficient Communication

Challenge: Delays and miscommunication among operators, supervisors, and tea garden workers can cause inefficiencies in production and field operations.

Solution: Instant data sharing and seamless communication tools streamline coordination, ensuring the entire team operates in sync, whether in the blending facility or the tea fields.

Limited Decision-Making Capabilities

Challenge: Without real-time data, decisions are often reactive, leading to slower responses and missed opportunities for improvement.

Solution: Real-time and historical data analysis transforms decision-making from reactive to proactive, whether optimizing blend quality or managing field productivity.

Lack of Automated Notifications

Challenge: Missing the optimal end time for a blend or not responding quickly to field emergencies can have significant consequences.

Solution: Automated alerts notify operators when blending is complete and alert supervisors of any emergencies in the tea garden, ensuring product consistency and worker safety.

Features:

• Live Monitoring: Provides up-to-the-minute visibility of blend tea items, unique blending codes, and detailed operator information, ensuring transparency at every stage of the blending process.
• Machine Status Updates: Continuously displays the uptime and downtime status of blending machines, enabling prompt identification and resolution of any disruptions.
• Alarm on Blending End Time: Set up alarms or notifications to alert operators when the blending process reaches its designated end time. This helps ensure that the tea blending is completed on schedule and assists in maintaining consistency in production.
• Factory Worker Tracking Integration: Incorporates real-time tracking of worker locations and activities using devices from Zyntea®, enhancing oversight and safety.

Benefits:

• Immediate Visibility: Offers a comprehensive overview of the blending process and workforce movements, allowing for proactive management and swift issue resolution.
• Efficient Supervision: Enables supervisors to oversee multiple operations and personnel from a single interface, reducing the need for manual checks and optimizing resource allocation.
• Enhanced Quality Control: Facilitates immediate correction of any process deviations, ensuring each batch meets quality standards and maintaining product consistency.
• Improved Worker Safety: Real-time tracking of worker locations and activities enhances safety protocols, ensuring prompt assistance in emergencies and compliance with safety regulations.

Key Challenges in Tea Garden Workforce Management:

• Worker Location Tracking: Tea gardens span large areas, making it difficult to track the exact location and activity of workers, leading to inefficiencies and potential safety risks.
• Emergency Response: In case of emergencies, such as sudden health issues or accidents in remote areas of the tea garden, it is challenging to provide immediate assistance.
• Productivity Monitoring: Supervisors have limited means to monitor worker productivity in real time, making it difficult to ensure that tasks are being completed efficiently.
• Compliance and Safety: Adhering to labor regulations and maintaining worker safety in such a widespread environment is complex and requires robust monitoring.

How Zyntea's Worker Tracking Solution Helps:

• Real-Time Location Monitoring: Using Zyntea® tracking devices, supervisors can monitor the real-time location of workers across the tea garden.
• SOS and Emergency Alerts: Workers can activate an SOS button on their tracking device to immediately alert supervisors in case of an emergency.
• Geofencing Capabilities: The system can create virtual boundaries within the tea garden, alerting supervisors if workers leave designated areas or if unauthorized entry is detected.
• Activity and Productivity Insights: The system logs activity data, providing supervisors with insights into how much time workers spend on various tasks.
• Health and Safety Monitoring: Devices can also track workers' physical activity levels, helping supervisors ensure that labor regulations are followed and that workers are not overexerted.

Key Features:

• Operator Behavior Analysis:
  • Real-time monitoring of operator actions and patterns.
  • Advanced analytics to understand and improve operator efficiency and adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Operator-Level Production Tracking:
  • Biometric authentication ensures secure and precise operator identification.
  • Individual operator productivity metrics are tracked, enabling tailored performance improvement plans.
• Soft-Driven PLC Integration:
  • Transition from traditional hard-driven PLCs to software-driven systems.
  • Increased flexibility, easy updates, and seamless integration with other digital tools.
• Energy Usage Tracking:
  • Real-time energy consumption monitoring, capturing idle and load conditions.
  • Automatic logging of energy patterns, e.g., detecting .9KW consumption during idle states and precise energy usage during load conditions.
  • Alerts for abnormal energy usage patterns, optimizing energy costs.
• Machine Usage Patterns:
  • Continuous monitoring of machine operation to identify usage trends.
  • Data-driven insights to minimize downtime and optimize machine maintenance schedules.
• Operator KPI Dashboard:
  • Personalized dashboards display Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for operators.
  • Clear visualization of metrics such as efficiency, energy consumption, and adherence to SOPs.