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Food and beverage manufacturers constantly face challenges brought on by furious competition and slim margins. To stay profitable, leading companies are always exploring solutions to lower costs and drive operational efficiency across their operations. For over 25 years, InSource has helped clients address the top 5 issues below:

What To ImproveWhat To MeasureWhat Results to Expect
Filling & Packaging Area EfficiencyLine Efficiency
Downtime
10% Increase
10-25% Reduction
Workforce Optimization Product Labour
Manual Reporting
30-50% Increase in Labour Efficiency
Improved Asset ReliabilityOverall Maintenance Cost
Maintenance Labour Efficiency
Unplanned Downtime
30% Reduction
25% Increase
25% Reduction
Material Loss & Water ReductionRaw Material Waste10-25% Reduction
Energy & Water Use EfficiencyElectricity
Water
Fossil Fuel
Chemical Waste
10-25% Reduction in Consumption Costs
Food & beverage industry issues

AVEVA MES Software

Maximize profitability, flexibility, quality, and compliance in manufacturing by digitally managing the rules and information for all operational activities and plant events in real-time.

Filling and Packaging Area Efficiency

Commonly, our food & beverage manufacturing clients to ask, why aren’t my packaging lines performing to their design capacities? Specifically:

  • What equipment areas are causing downtime?
  • What are the root causes of those downtimes?
  • What choices are operators making that lead to downtime?

Armed with the answers to these questions, our clients are making better decisions to improve performance and profitability.

Workforce Optimization

Industrial research has shown the importance of implementing structure with shift handovers in the form of structured logs and checklists. However, an estimated 80 percent of the world’s food & beverage operations still lack a structured approach to shift handovers and use paper logbooks to record critical information. This lack of structure dramatically increases the likelihood for missing critical information and misunderstandings occurring. These misunderstandings and missed information can sometimes have disastrous results. InSource has been leading the way, in helping manufacturers improve shift handovers and optimizing workforce routines.

Improved Asset Reliability

Asset Performance Management (APM) helps food and beverage manufacturers improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), through improved asset availability. Improving asset reliability is one of the key areas where our clients expect to increase overall profitability. Improved performance means there will be fewer unplanned machine starts stops and better adherence to schedule. This means that quality issues from stop/start cycles are minimized, and “on time, in full” deliveries are maintained. See below for ideas on developing an APM strategy and using sensor data and the underlying conditions they communicate to reduce your unplanned downtime.

Material Loss & Waste Reduction

Reducing waste in all its flavors is another area where our food and beverage clients expect to increase overall profitability. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) play a key roll in tracking production and waste streams as well as improving production line availability. But ultimately, it takes a sustainable and engaged culture and the ability to connect execution data to work processes that eliminates waste.

Energy & Water Use Efficiency

Energy cost is one of the largest operating expenses for food and beverage manufacturers. Improving your energy efficiency can result in huge savings in operating costs. Through linking energy data with production operations data, you can:
Uncover energy-saving opportunities from operational activities.
Allocate energy consumption according to products, enabling more accurate product pricing.
Identify the most energy efficient production recipes, operations methods and human behaviors that sustain them.

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