Food & Beverage Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing solutions for software & automation that provide flexibility and speed to the food and beverage industry.
How to maximize food production for lot size X?
Are your systems keeping up with today’s fast market? Product variations, customization, and strict traceability push operations to limits. Without flexibility, staying competitive is tough. Digital approach transforms how you design and run operations. Right tools help you scale faster, stay agile, maximize equipment performance—cutting time, effort, risk.
Overcome food & beverage production challenges
Enable agile, efficient and sustainable operations by connecting plant processes, optimizing production workflows and integrating advanced automation and digital tools.
88% Faster production readiness
Accelerate production readiness with virtual plant design and simulation. Detect errors early, speed up system acceptance, and streamline operations for greater efficiency. (Ferrero)
21K Product specs managed seamlessly
Simplify product specification management with a unified digital repository. Standardize processes, improve data accuracy, and gain real-time access to boost efficiency. (Gruppo Campari)
100+ Operational inefficiencies resolved
Overcome operational challenges by identifying inefficiencies in planning, production, and quality. Leverage digital solutions to streamline operations, enhance cost tracking, and improve production accuracy. (Yanghe Distillery)
Explore digital food & beverage manufacturing
Discover smarter food and beverage manufacturing. Digital automation & simulation optimize time to market, flexibility, and efficiency. Gain real-time insights to manage complexity, adapt to market shifts, and deliver profitable, sustainable products. Explore smart manufacturing pillars.
Adopt an agile approach to optimize production design and operations, maximizing the performance of capital assets while reducing costs. Rapidly adapt factories, simulate new machines into your lines, and ensure the right production capacity to meet shifting demand—keeping your operations efficient, scalable, and competitive.
- Shorten time to market by 30% when launching new products
- Cut commissioning time by 50% with reliable virtual simulations
- Reduce operational costs while maintaining flexibility and scalability
- Minimize errors and downtime with virtual pre-testing for smoother launches
- Optimize capital asset utilization for maximum efficiency and profitability
Increase flexibility and predictability to manage production complexity, quickly reconfigure lines, and operate flawlessly to meet changing demand. Ensure processes, materials, operations, and equipment are scalable to produce individualized products in any lot size—efficiently, profitably, and with reduced operational costs. Stay ahead of market demands with flexible operations that deliver consistent product quality.
- Reconfigure production lines quickly to meet shifting demands
- Scale processes and equipment for individualized products in any lot size
- Reduce downtime and operational costs while maximizing efficiency
- Use 98% accurate production simulations for reliable pre-testing, faster commissioning, and smoother production ramp-ups
Leverage IoT, machine learning, and analytics to streamline operations, reduce costs, and advance sustainability. By connecting suppliers, logistics, and production in one digital ecosystem, food and beverage companies gain real-time insights to minimize waste, improve resource efficiency, and meet evolving regulatory demands. Achieve greater operational efficiency while positioning your brand as a leader in high-quality, sustainable production.
- Increase productivity by 10-20% while reducing operational costs
- Minimize waste and resource consumption to meet sustainability goals
- Gain real-time insights for faster, more informed decision-making
- Ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining profitability and product quality
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Smart manufacturing isn’t just an upgrade—it’s how food and beverage companies stay competitive. Cut time to market, reduce costs, and improve product quality with digital tools that simplify production and drive efficiency. See how leading manufacturers are solving real-world problems, adapting to shifting consumer demands, and setting new standards for sustainable growth.
Solutions for food and beverage smart manufacturing
Process planning and verification
Collaborate instantly and securely to optimize part production and assembly operations. Execute all related activities more efficiently with a digital thread that spans your organization and plants.
Production order execution
Achieve visibility & traceability to optimize efficiency, sustainability, compliance, quality, & safety. Real-time data and integrated workflows eliminate silos, cutting time-to-market, boosting flexibility, and lowering costs.
Production planning and scheduling
Optimize production with smart scheduling that balances demand, capacity, and resources. Reduce lead times, improve on-time delivery, and adapt to changes in real time.
Production operation and optimization
Monitor quality and equipment performance to enable predictive, automated maintenance and condition monitoring.
Line automation engineering
Making food and beverage line automation engineering faster, more flexible and more efficient with an end-to-end approach.
IT/OT integration for networks
Increase your productivity, quality, and flexibility by successfully integrating OT and IT as part of the digital transformation.
Industrial IoT
Capture real-time data from connected assets. Gain insights, optimize efficiency, create quality/sustainable products, & deploy new business models via integrated Edge, IIoT, & lifecycle analytics.
Predictive maintenance in production
Minimize downtime and optimize resource allocation for maximum efficiency and growth in the food and beverage industry
Energy transparency in production
Optimizing resource usage through efficient planning and environmental analysis
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