Production transparency for SMEs

Make confident decisions by gaining new insights into your production processes. Data transparency can help companies of any size optimize their business, increase competitiveness, and improve productivity, quality, and resource efficiency.

Increase transparency and optimize your production

Our solutions enable SMEs in the food and beverage (F&B) industry to leverage their data, achieve greater transparency, and establish a reliable foundation for improved, accelerated decision-making. Let’s create greater data transparency for informed decision-making.

Based on this, our solutions enable early detection and resolution of problems, continuous improvement, effective risk management, and support for relevant food safety and traceability regulations.

Increase productivity

Gain real-time visibility into your SME operations and identify inefficiencies, make faster decisions, and optimize processes – directly boosting productivity.

Increase quality

Detect quality issues earlier, trace root causes faster, and continuously improve production outcomes – with real-time data transparency across your operations.

Increase operational efficiency

Minimize material waste and optimize energy use by gaining full transparency into production processes in real time.

Dive deeper to become more competitive

Connected systems continuously exchange data to create real-time transparency, enabling optimized operations, improved efficiency, and stronger competitive advantage.

Why data transparency is crucial

Food and beverage SMEs face mounting pressure – skills shortages, limited resources, tightening regulations, and the constant need to produce more flexibly and efficiently. In this environment, manual monitoring is too slow and unreliable, and fragmented IT/OT data makes it nearly impossible to see the full production picture. Real-time data transparency is the key to identifying bottlenecks, reducing downtime, and turning optimization potential into competitive advantage.

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Challenges & opportunities for SMEs in the F&B industry

Small and Medium Enterprises face the constant challenge of remaining competitive and adapting to changing circumstances. But did you know, that you turn these challenges into opportunities?

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Getting the most out of production data

Learn how to use operational data from different production lines, contextualize it, and make it available for further processing. This will help you produce more flexibly and efficiently.

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Improve production with enhanced transparency

How do you identify optimization potential? To stay on the cutting edge of technology and increase competitiveness, manufacturers need access to IT and OT data to improve cycle times. Learn how to leverage digitalization.

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Increase energy efficiency and reduce costs

Learn from Siemens expert Markus Bachl how to increase energy efficiency and reduce costs by up to 10%, in accordance with ISO 50001 standards.

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Energy management in the food and beverage industry

Join our experts in this webinar on boosting efficiency and compliance in the food and beverage industry through transparent energy data management and digitalization for smarter shop floor decisions.

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From traditional to transformational

The Pringles story shows how data, AI and Digital Twins transform a traditional operation into an adaptive factory. By connecting R&D, engineering & production, innovation is accelerated and scaled toward the Industrial Metaverse.

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Energy and water resource efficiency

Boost efficiency and sustainability in F&B. This free white paper explores digital solutions to minimize costs, save water, and reduce your carbon footprint.

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Improve manufacturing quality with the help of AI

Learn how product quality is ensured using advanced methods and AI-supported processes across development and production, maintaining high standards throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Case study

Dresdner Whisky Manufaktur

Germany

Distilling whiskey is usually a manual process. However, German distiller Dresdner Whisky Manufaktur uses SISTAR to automate the process. The result is consistent quality despite varying quality of raw materials.

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AI-driven Quality Inspection with Industrial Edge

Optimize production quality inspection with AI and edge computing: Enable real-time inspections, reduce scrap, and increase efficiency through end-to-end data-driven process quality – directly at the shopfloor.

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A changing world creates new challenges

This white paper highlights the current challenges facing the CPG industry and its factory operators. It also provides recommendations for implementation.

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Coppenrath & Wiese

Germany

By deploying Siemens AI-powered vision on Industrial Edge, the company automated quality inspection for high-volume bakery production, reducing manual effort by 90%, improving quality and enabling scalable, data-driven control.

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Automate your quality inspection in bakery production

This webinar introduces the Visual Inspection Cockpit, an AI-powered machine vision application on the Industrial Edge platform designed to automate bakery quality inspection.