Pilmico Foods Corporation, a major food and agribusiness company in the Philippines, has chosen AWS Outposts to update its manufacturing operations across the country. This decision is part of Pilmico’s efforts to standardize IT infrastructure and improve the performance of critical workloads in areas with limited internet connectivity.
Pilmico operates as part of Aboitiz Foods under the Aboitiz Group, managing divisions in flour, feeds, farms, and trading throughout the Philippines. The company has faced challenges running essential applications at remote sites due to limited bandwidth. Applications such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems require real-time communication with plant equipment.
With AWS Outposts, Pilmico can now process these important workloads locally at each site. This allows for consistent low-latency performance even where internet access is unreliable. The move also simplifies management by providing a unified operating environment that supports Pilmico’s expansion plans in Asia.
After testing AWS Outposts at its Capas, Tarlac facility in September 2023, Pilmico began rolling out the solution to other sites in the Philippines and plans to use it for international operations as well.
"Our manufacturing operations depend on critical applications that require high performance and low latency, particularly in remote locations," said Gary Eugenio, AVP for IT Infrastructure at Aboitiz Foods. "AWS Outposts provides us with a consistent, cloud-native platform that maintains the local processing capabilities we need while significantly simplifying our IT operations."
"Agribusinesses are increasingly looking to modernize their operations with cloud-native technologies while maintaining critical on-premises capabilities," said Kevin Kwan, ASEAN Specialist Leader at AWS. "By choosing AWS Outposts, Pilmico gains the ability to run low-latency workloads on-premises with the same AWS tools, APIs, and functionality they would use in the cloud, enabling them to standardize operations and accelerate innovation across their entire organization.”
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Aboitiz Foods operates in eight countries across Asia—Philippines, Singapore, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Brunei—through subsidiaries like Pilmico and Gold Coin. The company integrates trading, feeds and specialty nutrition using advanced technology. Further details are available at https://www.aboitizfoods.com/.