Optimizing Chocolate Quality with Real-Time Batch Tracking in the Conching Process

The Challenge

The conching process is key to achieving the right texture and flavor in chocolate.

Given its sensitivity to time, temperature, and speed, manufacturers needed to:

• Build a unified view of ongoing batches and recipes

• Compare performance across batches

• Analyze Time Series Data for quality assurance and consistency

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The Approach

To enable full traceability and real-time oversight, a structured, data-integrated solution was implemented:

• Connected the SQL batch database to TrendMiner for Gantt Chart visualization

• Where direct access wasn’t possible, ValueBased Searches were created per recipe and asset to identify all relevant conching cycles within the data.

• These VBS results were linked to contextual events, enabling automated tracking in the Gantt view.

Through this enhanced data layer, experts can now visually navigate cycles and interact with them—just one click away from jumping into the Time Series Data for deeper analysis.

Breakthrough: The Gantt dashboard provided teams with a shared, realtime view across all assets, instantly revealing inefficiencies and recipe deviations.

The Results

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The Takeaway

With real-time batch tracking and visual tools in place, the team improved process control, reduced manual tracking, and elevated chocolate quality.

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