Industrial Analytics
for Chocolate Production

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

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Ensure quality, food safety, and resource efficiency in every step of your process with TrendMiner.

Optimizing throughput & performance
in coffee processing
Why Relevant:

High cocoa press pressure (>500 bar) requires early anomaly detection to prevent failure and ensure butter and solid cake consistency.

Why TrendMiner:
  • Find optimal pressure ranges and monitor it in real time
  • Correlate output flowrates vs pressure to find attrition signals
  • Establish continuous butter flow rate & track production deviations sustained over time
Optimizing energy consumption in chocolate production
Why Relevant:

Roasting consumes the most energy (120–200 °C for >20 min); tracking product-specific consumption is vital for savings.

Why TrendMiner:

Enable real-time monitoring and anomaly detection in boilers and extraction units to detect issues early. Leverage dashboards and ContextHub historical data to identify deviations, correct them fast, and prevent process failures.

Increasing the quality in cocoa powder production
Why Relevant:

Conching is key in chocolate quality, by reducing the size of cocoa solid particles and sugar crystals, resulting in a smoother texture. Key factors influencing the final product include: Aeration, flavor development, temperature control, duration

TrendMiner’s Solution:

Quantify, compare, and analyze roasting variants—temperature, time, energy use, yield, moisture loss, and uniformity—across multiple products and procedures.

Increasing the quality in chocolate production
Why Relevant:

Conching is key in chocolate quality, by reducing the size of cocoa solid particles and sugar crystals, resulting in a smoother texture. Key factors influencing the final product include: Aeration, flavor development, temperature control, duration

TrendMiner’s Solution:

Keep track of conching batches and corresponding quality-influencing parameters, finding ideal ranges of operating variables that lead to optimal quality.

Increasing efficiency & saving time in chocolate production
Why Relevant:

Conching, lasting from 12 hours to several days, is the longest chocolate production phase. Reducing cycle time while maintaining final product quality is essential.

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.

Cocoa Processing Steps

Cocoa processing from bean to chocolate

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How to Create a Digital Chocolate Factory

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