Manufacturing

Minimize downtime and optimize operations with site-specific weather decision guidance for your entire business process, including the supply chain. 

Food Manufacturing weather insights
Key benefits

Minimize impact and optimize operations

Slowed production or unplanned shutdowns of operations means lost production time, impacting the bottom line. We actively monitor your precise location—swiftly notifying you of potential weather disruptions while reducing false alerting—so you can maintain operational uptime. 

Safeguard Employees

Personnel safety is a top concern. Ensure operations run safely and on schedule with weather condition updates (via phone, portal or email) from our 24/7 meteorologists. 

Protect Assets

Short- and long-term decision guidance tools provide the detailed information needed to reposition goods, control sensitive productions, reroute suppliers and prepare your facility. 

A global pulp and paper manufacturing company with over 550 locations, found that StormGeo’s services allowed them to safely operate during a major weather event, resulting in $4 million saved over a four-day period.
Safety and Security Manager, Florida
We knew that severe weather was coming, so we were on the StormGeo website watching the forecast develop. At the same time, we were on the phone with their senior meteorologist requesting updates for our safety department.
Cicero Bevelle, Safety Specialist
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International

Details and Specifications 

Weather Intelligence for Manufacturing 

Manufacturing Automobile weather insights

Severe weather can have huge negative impacts on production. StormGeo's suite of weather intelligence and decision support solutions provide manufacturers with actionable plans to minimize risk and optimize production in the face of extreme weather events.

  • Receive 24/7 site-specific monitoring and alerts powered by analytics and our team of expert meteorologists.
  • Correlate complex weather effects – taking into account historical events, long-range forecasts and your production data – to enhance operations.
  • Utilize long-range planning tools to position fleets and optimize the supply chain.
  • Apply weather information to shift-change management. Schedule calls with our meteorologists to determine if the weather will affect employees' ability to get to work.
  • Manage logistics with specific weather advisories and real-time alerting 
Let us focus on the weather, so you can focus on maintaining optimal production.
Supporting Solutions

Warnings and Alerts

Site-specific monitoring and alerts to protect your assets and employees. 

Planning dashboards

Forecasts and dashboards provide at-a-glance analysis to optimize operations.

Hurricane and Typhoon Forecasting

Interactive tropical storms and hurricane monitoring, tracking and impact analysis.

Aluminum manufacturing weather insights v2

Aluminum manufacturer at risk during extreme cold

The largest U.S. aluminum manufacturer has a plant in South Texas that extracts aluminum from bauxite. This specialized, multi-step process requires chemicals to be pumped through lines located throughout the facility, and is extremely sensitive to cold weather. During the winter months, the facility monitors external temperatures and will inject antifreeze to keep the product from freezing, which would turn it into a cement-like substance that permanently blocks the lines. In the event the product does freeze, the manufacturer has to take apart the entire facility to fix the tubes that have been blocked—a shutdown that could take days, weeks or even months to fix, leading to loss of productivity and revenue. 

StormGeo provides this aluminum manufacturer with seven-day forecasts, broken down hour-by-hour, with weather and temperature conditions. In the event of a winter weather advisory, StormGeo alerts the facility of the upcoming weather event, allowing the plant to take precautionary measures such as adding antifreeze to the lines.