From Spreadsheets to Scalable Insights: Automating Slowback Tracking​ – International Paper

In this session, International Paper shares how its Springfield mill moved production-loss tracking from spreadsheets, shift notes, and inconsistent manual reporting to a standardized workflow built with Seeq Workbench, Vantage, and Power BI. The team outlines the challenge of finding true bottlenecks in mill processes, filtering noisy signals, and aligning operators around shared definitions. By automating event detection, capturing reason codes, and adding operational context with Seeq, they reduced weekly effort from hours to minutes, made analysis auditable, and created a model that could be replicated across other sites.