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WAMMCO Case Study

Lamb Processing

Australia WA & NSW

Multi-Site

Standardising Lamb Processing Across Two Plants in Australia

WAMMCO, one of Australia’s largest lamb and mutton processors, has successfully deployed Emydex across both its Katanning (WA) and Southern Meats (Goulburn, NSW) facilities.

This dual-site go-live marks a major milestone, standardising operations across both plants on a single platform for the first time.

As a farmer-owned cooperative supplying domestic and export markets, WAMMCO plays a key role in supporting returns to its 700+ farmer-members.

Working with Emydex

WAMMCO partnered with Emydex to implement a modern, integrated factory floor solution across its multi-site operations, improving real-time data capture, traceability, and operational efficiency, and supporting its mission to deliver strong returns to farmer-members while meeting growing global demand.

Challenge

WAMMCO was operating a mix of legacy systems, including an in-house back-office platform used for livestock procurement, farmer feedback and payments.

This approach created operational complexity and introduced business risk, particularly in maintaining and supporting the in-house system.

A strategic review identified the need for a modern, centralised platform to support multi-site operations and improve visibility across the business.

Solution

Emydex delivered a phased implementation across both sites.

Phase 1: Procurement, Transportation & Live Animal Handling
Phase 2: Warehouse Management and Export Sales

Phase 1 was successfully delivered across both Katanning and Southern Meats.

Key functionality included:

Appointment bookings
Saleyard purchasing
Delivery terminal
Automated settlements
Integration with the existing kill-floor system

Southern Meats went live shortly after Katanning, running in parallel with the legacy
system to support a controlled transition.

WAMMCO also implemented Emydex BI, enabling centralised reporting and real-
time data access across both sites.

Outcome

The implementation has enabled WAMMCO to standardise operations across both
plants.

Key outcomes include:

Consistent livestock processing across sites
Greater visibility of procurement and transportation
Standardised reporting and financial data
Improved settlements and general ledger posting

The platform provides real-time data across kill, production, inventory and finance,
supporting traceability and export compliance.

Automation of key processes has reduced manual workload while improving
operational efficiency.

Following the successful Phase 1 implementation, Phase 2 is already underway and will extend the system across:

Stock Management
Quality Management
Transfers
Sales (Export)
Yield & Costing

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SunPork Case Study

Pork & Processing
Australia

The largest supplier of Australian Pork in Queensland

Pork & Processing

Australia | Australasia

Multi-Site

Through Swickers Kingaroy, SunPork is the largest pig processor in all of Australia, handling 900,000 pigs every year to produce 18% (42 million kilos) of the nation’s pork. The group is proud to be Australian farmer-owned and a direct employer of 1,400 people across the country.

In addition to the domestic market, SunPork exports 7 million kilos of pork to seven other countries and creates 140 million meals worldwide annually. They do this through 37 Australian farms in three states and six New Zealand farms on the two islands. They also have three feed-mills, a directly owned abattoir, major interest in a second facility, as well as two value-add facilities.

What SunPork Says

"I would absolutely recommend Emydex because they have invested their time and resources in our business… it means as much to them as it does to us. Some of their guys came out and spent a month working at the coal face and we couldn’t ask for more commitment than that."

Geoff Miller, Group CFO and Company Secretary

Challenge

Following the rebuild of the Export Boning Room after a fire at SunPorks’s Swickers abattoir in Queensland, the group began an additional AUD$ 64m (Euro €40m) investment in a new state-of-the-art facility in 2016. It set out to become the most efficient pork processing line in Australia with a capacity to process up to 750 pigs per hour, whilst maintaining a relentless focus on quality.

In December 2019, the SunPork Group completed the Swickers abattoir expansion in Kingaroy, located three hours outside Brisbane, Queensland, creating more than 200 jobs in the process.

So how do you become the fastest and most efficient pork processing facility in the country? You bring in one of the world’s leading providers of factory floor software for food processors. You bring in Emydex.

In December 2019, the SunPork Group completed the Swickers abattoir expansion in Kingaroy, located three hours outside Brisbane, Queensland, creating more than 200 jobs in the process.

Solution

The Sunpork project began with the design and development of a new state-of-the-art, fully automated kill line system for the Swickers processing plant, in line with Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0) best practice.

The main goal of this project was to interface the Emydex MES to an automated factory floor system consisting of a network of RFID readers and sensors, as well as multiple (20) in-line automated machines, connected to Emydex via the PLC layer. This meant integrating with equipment supplied by Frontmatec, Denmark, that included a carcass opener, automated splitting, AutoFom grader and a carcass stamp printer.

Other equipment included a PorkScan grader, automatic track scales as well as LED/Light and gate control systems, in addition to other devices to manage routing. The use of multiple real-time vet inspection and grading stations also controlled the flow and routing of carcasses.

RFID integration required the design and build of standard integrations (APIs) to interact with RFID tracking systems on the kill floor. The RFID system provides real-time carcass identification and tracking, enabling full traceability of the carcass throughout processing.

As part of the project, the Emydex engineering team also designed and built a new centralised communication service, called the Data Communication Interface (DCI). DCI eliminates the need for individual terminals to have direct communication with the various integrated hardware and allows terminals to receive the data input in a unified format via this single central communication point.

The project also delivered additional new innovative systems for stock delivery and pen management, automated carcass routing and an automated chiller sortation system based on configurable business rules.

Outcome

The effects were immediate, and the system keeps improving day by day.

“The new kill line is significantly more efficient than the previous line, and it will continue to improve as we move forward. Manpower has reduced in terms of two shifts to one, while the new floor will allow us double output. There are two real and obvious benefits that Emydex has brought to SunPork. One, we have more data points where we can collect manufacturing information from around the floor and two; we have replaced many manual tasks such as populating spreadsheets.

Geoff Miller, Group CFO and Company Secretary

“What makes the Swickers plant unique is that it not only processes product on behalf of SunPork, but also provides a service kill for other companies in the pork industry and so had to have a lot of flexibility not usually found in normal processing facilities. The need to meet the requirements of each customer utilising the service provided by the plant meant Emydex had to deliver a system that could not only operate at very high speed, but also deliver the ability to change the way each customer’s pigs were prepared and to signal this in real-time to the operators on the production floor”

Ian Carson, Technical Sales Director, Emydex Australia

What’s next?

The next phase is to refine and perfect Emydex’s ‘Factory of The Future system’ on the ground at Swickers and then roll Emydex systems out to further processing functions at Kingaroy and SunPork’s other facility in Queensland.

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Harvey Beef
Case Study

Beef
Australia

One of Australia's leading beef processing facilities

Beef

Australia | Australasia

Single-Site

In operation since 1919, Harvey Beef is located in the town of Harvey, south of Perth in Western Australia. Part of Harvest Road Group and privately owned by the Minderoo Group, Harvey Beef is Western Australia’s leading beef processor. Stretching across 1.2 million hectares of pastoral farmland, Minderoo cattle stations are dedicated to producing high-quality beef for both domestic and export consumption.

Harvey Beef were previously using a legacy factory floor software system comprising a number of software modules including data capture, labeling and 3rd party barcode scanning, that were integrated to their back-office Microsoft Dynamics Nav ERP system.

What Harvey Beef Says

“I think we can say the kill line go-live went pretty well. On week 1, we achieved within 100 head of our maximum capacity which is a good effort for a change this big. The staff are very positive with the result. Everyone can see it is a better system. By weeks end the system was having no negative impact on throughput speed with the kill line system operating at speed, and operators up to speed with using it. Overall a great outcome."

Wayne Shaw, General Manager of Harvey Beef