PDO and PGI cheeses · Industrial AI in the cheese dairy
European PDO cheeses — the specification is met in the vat, not on paper.
A cheese with a PDO or PGI is defined by its product specification: the breed, the milk, the rennet, the aging time, the area. Meeting it is manufacturing; proving it is another matter entirely. With EU Regulation 2024/1143 the evidence bar goes up, and the multi-PDO cheese dairy is where it hurts most. These are iLEAN's documented cases in European cheesemaking.
30 real cases from this industry.
Every case is written for the person who runs that line — with the specific problem, how it fits the IRIS system, and an impact estimate to be validated with your numbers.
Idiazabal PDO smoking with AI
iLEAN Edge watches the beechwood smoking of Idiazabal PDO cheese with an AI profile of time, temperature and smoke density. The master smoker…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyContinuous audit of the Comté cahier des charges with AI
iLEAN Brain uses AI to cross-reference the milk, the vat and the cave of Comté AOP against the CIGC cahier des charges — continuous audit, a dossier per meule,…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyHalloumi PDO cooking with AI
iLEAN Edge watches the cooking of Halloumi PDO in hot whey with AI vision and traces the sheep-goat blend the cahier requires. The person signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyGorgonzola DOP cave aging control with AI
iLEAN Edge uses AI to control needle inoculation, humidity and CO2 during the natural cave aging of Gorgonzola DOP, without touching the microbiota…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyCheddaring and Cheddar acidity control with AI
iLEAN Edge controls industrial Cheddar cheddaring — stacking, turning and the acidity curve on a continuous line, with cross-referenced vision and sensors…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyGouda brine control with AI
How iLEAN Edge measures brine concentration and temperature (salometer) across a bank of tanks for Dutch Gouda, without probing the tank and without…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyMozzarella di Bufala filatura control with AI
iLEAN Edge controls the filatura of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP through whey temperature and curd elasticity, without taking over the hand of the…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyEmmental AOP eye control with AI
How iLEAN Edge anticipates Propionibacterium eye formation in Emmental AOP with CO2 sensors and vision, giving you room to correct before…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyRoquefort Penicillium roqueforti control with AI
iLEAN Edge controls the inoculation and dosing of Penicillium roqueforti in every curd of Roquefort AOP, aged in the Combalou caves —…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyTorta del Casar PDO thistle rennet with AI
iLEAN Edge controls the vegetable thistle rennet Cynara cardunculus in Torta del Casar PDO: pH curve, creaminess AI and curd traceability…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyDPP per PDO cheese wheel with AI
How iLEAN Tracer generates the Digital Product Passport per PDO cheese wheel under ESPR EU Reg. 2024/1781 without slowing the line, cross-referencing ERP, MES,…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyFeta PDO: milk origin traceability with AI
iLEAN Tracer records the origin of the Greek sheep-goat milk and the brine barrel by barrel in Feta PDO. A closed file per barrel; the person signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyPenicillium camemberti bloom with AI
iLEAN Edge uses AI vision to watch the progress of the Penicillium camemberti bloom on Brie and Camembert and decide when to move the bed. The affineur signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyGrated Parmigiano granulometry with AI
How iLEAN Vision controls granulometry, moisture and rind residue inline when grating Parmigiano Reggiano DOP and Grana Padano DOP…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyFixed-weight cheese slicing with AI
How iLEAN Vision 3D adapts the cut of the cheese block slice by slice to guarantee fixed portion weight and reduce giveaway, without stopping the…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyManchego PDO: Manchega sheep traceability with AI
iLEAN Tracer records the Manchega breed and the farm behind every raw-milk tanker for Queso Manchego PDO and sends the signed record to the Council…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyCheese vat predictive maintenance with AI
iLEAN Edge predicts failures in the cheese vat and the cutting harps by cross-referencing vibration, torque and temperature. It anticipates a stoppage mid-curd — the person signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyTetilla PDO conical molding with AI vision
iLEAN Vision verifies the characteristic conical shape of Galician Tetilla PDO cheese after demolding and before salting — PDO specification control with…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyMorge on Munster AOP with AI
iLEAN Edge sees the rind of Munster AOP in the cave and proposes the optimal morge washing frequency wheel by wheel. The master affineur signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyMulti-PDO cheese plant OEE with AI
iLEAN Brain orchestrates recipe changes between PDO formats in a multi-PDO cheese plant, validates the sanitary line and recovers OEE. The person signs.
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyMahón-Menorca PDO cloth pressing with AI
iLEAN Vision verifies the folding of the fogasser cloth and the characteristic shape of Mahón-Menorca PDO at every pressing, before airing, against the…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyListeria program for soft cheese with AI
iLEAN Edge guides environmental sampling for Listeria monocytogenes in soft cheese under EU Reg. 2073/2005 — wherever the risk is highest, that is where the…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyRind scraping with AI during aging
iLEAN Vision guides the scrape rind: it sees the rind of the cheese in aging, flags unwanted molds and proposes the exact trim, with no over-cutting. The…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyEU Reg. 853/2004 raw milk for export cheese with AI
iLEAN Connect captures the tanker's temperature log and cross-references it with EU Reg. 853/2004 — raw milk for intra-EU export cheese, without…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyEU Regulation 2024/1143 PDO/PGI cheese with AI
How iLEAN Writer keeps your dairy's PDO/PGI dossier up to date with EU Regulation 2024/1143 — without rewriting the specification every time something changes…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyPost-pasteurization alkaline phosphatase test with AI
iLEAN Connect captures the post-pasteurization alkaline phosphatase test and links it to the milk batch and the temperature log — the data stops living…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyPayoya goat traceability for Payoyo cheese with AI
iLEAN Tracer links every batch of Payoyo cheese from the Sierra de Cádiz to its payoya goat and grazalemeña merino sheep farm — traceability of…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyHalal and kosher rennet traceability with AI
iLEAN Tracer segregates halal and kosher rennet batches in multi-rite European cheese dairies, with a certificate per wheel and a closed audit. The person…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyParmigiano casein mark traceability with AI
iLEAN Tracer cross-references the casein mark of every Parmigiano Reggiano DOP wheel with the Consorzio file: milk batch, vat, day and caves…
See the case → Case in a cheese dairyStilton PDO blue veins with AI
How iLEAN Vision verifies the manual piercing of Stilton PDO before the final cave, counting holes and mapping their distribution to hold back…
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