McDonald’s Smart Kitchen
Case Study
Luca Coppadoro
LonMark Sessions 2007
Agenda
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Echelon
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Business Analysis of the Project
– Why Smart Kitchen?
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Solution Analysis
– Project drivers
– The good, the bad and the ugly
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Technical Analysis
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Results
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– Business analysis
Who Are Echelon?
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Founded by Mike Markkula (Intel, Apple)
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CEO: Ken Oshman (Rolm)
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P bli l listed
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Offices: China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy,
Japan South Korea
Japan,
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Netherlands, UK
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Echelon employs about 330 people world-wide
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Open Control Network Infrastructure Company
The Vision
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Virtuallyy everyy component
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..and they will be effectively tied together
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…to support integrated functional control
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on a Global Standard
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L W k – EN 14908
What is Possible Today
Increasing Business
Intelligence
Transforming Data
Into Knowledge
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Enabling Intelligent
Devices and Networks
Connecting Networks
to Networks
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Background
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Opportunities
– Over 30,000 Company and Franchisee owned stores
– Global Presence
– McDonald’s is the leader in innovation in the QSR
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Market. Other restaurant operators
lead of McDonald’s
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Project Goals
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Drivers
– Improve visibility into operations
– Optimise
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– Maximise food safety
– Energy efficiency – the “green”
green factor
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Solution Analysis
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Competition
– NAFEM – A North American standard in the food
equipment industry
– Wireless – No protocol explicitly defined
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Echelon solution
– Power Line Communication (PL)
– i.Lon
i Lon 100 XML interface to the enterprise
– LNS auto-installation
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Solution Analysis
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PL Challenges
– UL Specifications – leakage current issue had to be
overcome
– Coupling circuit had to support worldwide deployment
– 3-phase
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– Vendor reluctance
– Perceived lack of bandwidth on PL channel
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Solution Analysis
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PL Winning factors
– Retrofit solution – no new wires!
– All business data necessaryy could be collected
– Proven Technology
– Low cost development
– Highly optimised data communication
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Technical Analysis
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Key technologies used in the project
– PL Smart Transceivers
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Retrofit capable
Many used as gateways to existing communications
Worldwide certified
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Technical Analysis
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Key technologies used in the project
– i.Lon 100
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XML interface for enterprise applications
Alarm generation
Data-logging
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Technical Analysis
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Key technologies used in the project
– LNS
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Automatic installation tool to simplify owner/operator’s task
Easy interface for data access (PIMS Bridge Program)
Support for Plug-ins to create standard equipment
configuration
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System Architecture
In-Store Applications
Enterprise Applications
• Food Production Management
• Product Quality Monitoring
• Equipment Configuration
• Crew Management
• Customer Interface
• Operations
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• Inventory Management
• Product Development
• Equipment Performance
• Remote Diagnostics & Repair
Firewall / VPN / Router
Store Ethernet / IP LAN
i.LON 100
Embedded Production Supervisor
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• Production Alarm Management
• Operations Scheduler
• Data Logging
FT-10 / PL-20
Router
Lighting
HVAC
Refrigeration
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Signage
Drive-thru Control
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Kitchen Equipment
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Business Analysis
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McDonald’s 5 areas of business benefit
– Inventory Management
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Taking information from the smart equipment
Know what is in process
Combing this information with historical trends
Minimize food waste in the restaurant
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McDonald’s 5 areas of business benefit
– Preventative and Faster Maintenance
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Usage-based preventative maintenance rather than fixed
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Automatic notification to suppliers of equipment problem
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Service equipment based upon usage rather than time
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Business Analysis
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McDonald’s 5 areas of business benefit
– Food Safety
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HACCP Reporting (food and freezer temperatures)
This is done manually today if at all
Export temperature logs into standard reporting format
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McDonald’s 5 areas of business benefit
– Asset Management
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Better knowledge of where assets are. (Many franchisees
have multiple stores among which that they move equipment)
Software revision management
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McDonald’s 5 areas of business benefit
– Energy Management
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Certain equipment can be turned off depending upon the time
of day and electrical costs.
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Key contributing factor to MacDonald’s “green” image
ADITEL
Centro Formación Autorizado (ATC) Echelon
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Cursos de Diseño de Redes LonWorks (cod. 201)
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Cursos de LonMaker (cod. 301)
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Cursos ON-SITE
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ON SITE
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Entrega de diploma oficial Echelon
Próximo curso
23 .. 26 Octubre (Madrid)
Solicitud de registro
registro:
comercial@aditel-sistemas.com
Registro abierto hasta el día 16
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Thank you
Luca Coppadoro
LonMark Sessions 2007