Digitalization for food & beverage - taking the first steps

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Digitalization for food & beverage - taking the first steps
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Food and beverage manufacturing operations management software

ABB Ability™ Smart Manufacturing Operations Management suite provides the backbone for optimized operations. Enable visibility, orchestrate and synchronize the complete end-to-end process, from incoming raw material to finished product.

Food and beverage makers today operate in a highly competitive market. In addition to fierce cost pressure, high demands are on uncompromised safety, hygiene, sustainability and traceability. Our flexible and secure software platform gives operators, supervisors, production engineers and plant manager the visibility and insights to take the right actions for increased productivity, quality and compliance.

Benefits

  • Visualization of pending tasks, work instructions, materials and equipment and quality test specifications in the context, reduces errors,  rework and scrap and improves quality and throughput.
  • Real time transparency of production status and performance provides the insights to continuously improve and optimize operations.
  • Recording of all relevant data in context, including transactional operation/order/product/ component quality data,  ensures complete forward and backward traceability.
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Our offering

Process and Production Intelligence

Process and Production Intelligence software

Combining plant operations data from any control system, with ERP, and other data sources into actionable information.
Data collection and storage

Extensive, secure, high speed recording of history data from all systems, with built-in powerful calculations engine
Personalized reporting dashboard

Support day-to-day and strategic business decisions with real-time operational intelligence, business KPIs, transactional and historical data analysis via a single interface

Manufacturing Execution System

Enterprise connectivity

Seamless integration of ERP, SCM, MES, databases, applications, various production equipment and control systems from different vendors
Production management

Plan, respond and change on demand: order and production buffers, workflow management, automatic mapping of routing from ERP
Quality management

Quality data collection, test certificates, in-process quality control, automatic tolerance validation, non-conformities reporting, checklists
Labor management

Accurate management and tracking of staff attended hours (Join/Leave) and activities on a given product against defined production time
Electronic Work Instructions (EWI)

Bring consistency to manual operations with Standard Operations Procedures (SOP)
Virtual Trainer

Possibility to define questions / tests to help maintain knowledge about the process, product and safety on the shopfloor
Weigh and dispense

Improve productivity, safety and accuracy of weighing, integrate scales, bar code scanning and label generation
Genealogy

Comprehensive track and trace capabilities from raw material, intermediates to finished products
Material management

Tracking, tracing individual parts, lots, batches, assemblies. Material identification, real-time reporting of material consumed and produced, material compatibility and availability
Warehouse Management

Control storage locations & levels, movement within warehouses, compatibility, manage silos and containers, integrate with external warehouses / inventory management systems
Downtime management

Real-time downtime info to make immediate improvements, long-term data collection for investigation of production process problems
Equipment maintenance management

Plan, create and execute equipment maintenance with support of instructions, checklists and task tracking
Paperless manufacturing

Electronic Batch Record for complete visibility, enforcing GMP compliance, human error prevention, barcode scanners and printers integration

Process Optimization

Energy and emissions management

Reporting, planning and optimization tools to reduce energy cost and carbon footprint
Advanced Process Control (APC) for industrial steam automation

Enable higher level of automation and optimization of steam power in F&B plants

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Other industries we serve

Discrete manufacturing

Food and Beverage

Chemicals

Pharmaceutical and life sciences

Oil, gas and petrochemicals

Cement manufacturing

Metals

Mining and minerals processing

Pulp and paper

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