Beverage Industry

Beverage Industry

Manufacturing Solutions

Scheduling and Order Management

Solutions that schedule and monitor production orders, provide work instructions and procedures, and analyze operations to improve execution on the factory floor

• Work flow management
• Finite capacity scheduling
• Optimize equipment usage
• Inventory management

Production Optimization

Automation and information solutions to better monitor and control production operations for improved efficiency and effectiveness which can improve yield, reduce waste and reduce operating costs

• Consistent quality
• Improve yield
• Reduce waste and rework
• Reduce cycle time
• Production flexibility and packaging
• Increased throughput

Quality and Recipe Management

Solutions that manage corporate and site specific product recipes and production processes, and tightly integrate them with quality data from raw material intake, in-process checks and quality gates, to ensure product consistency

• CIP and sanitation
• Reduce cycle time
• Product specification management
• Improve yield
• Consistent quality
• Reduce waste and rework

Tracking and Tracing

Solutions that track and record the resources used (raw materials, people, equipment, utilities) and actions taken during each step of production and generate a complete record for each lot of production

• Beverage safety and security
• Brand equity
• Product recall
• Regulatory compliance
• HACCP

Production Information and Analysis

Solutions that measure, collect, record and report on production data necessary to monitor and control operations and report on business performance

• Continuous improvement
• Overall equipment effectiveness
• "Golden Batch" comparison
• Production KPI monitoring
• Activity based costing
• Knowledge management

Utility Management

Solutions that monitor, analyze and control production utilities which can drive down costs, increase availability, protect the environment and enable activity based costing

• Power and energy management
• Boiler and chiller optimization
• Production correlation
• Environment protection and resource conservation

Asset Management

Solutions focused on Maintenance, Repair and Operation (MRO) to help deliver increased plant availability, asset reliability and workforce competent service and support infrastructure to support plant modernization

• Predictive maintenance
• Computerized maintenance management
• Asset management programs
• Integrated performance assessments
• Training and development programs
• Integrated support programs

Warehouse/Material Management

Solutions for the management of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished product to streamline the supply chain and provide real-time insight into product availability

• RFID integration
• Inventory management
• Supply chain logistics
• Customer satisfaction

Simulation and De-bottlenecking

Solutions that enable accurate process simulations to drive educated business decisions

• "What if" analysis
• Continuous improvement
• Supply chain simulation
• Production simulation
• Production optimization
• Improved ROCE