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MES software for the Food & Beverages industry

 

Meet key challenges including quality, compliance and increasing demand

Food and beverage manufacturers face a growing global demand* for diverse consumer requirements, alongside increasingly stringent food safety standards and complex regulations. Leading Food & Beverage manufacturers, processors and fillers are leveraging the power of MES to address these challenges and increase competitiveness.

Digital transformation for the Food & Beverages industry

Shopfloor-Online MES / MOM transforms operations through the digitisation of processes and the automated capture of data throughout. With real-time visibility and control over all manufacturing processes at the same time, organisations dramatically drive up quality standards and performance.

  • Food safety compliance: MES helps prioritised stock consumption, enforces strict quality control and ensures 100% accurate labelling of shipped goods
  • Recipe and product range diversity:  MES increases line efficiency and supports faster change overs
  • Cost of raw materials: MES gives a real-time view of stock levels and real-time process control significantly reduces manufacturing waste

Leading Food & Beverage manufacturers, processors and fillers are leveraging the power of MES to address challenges and turn these into opportunities.

* The Food and Beverage Outlook Survey by KPMG forecast that the world population will increase from nearly 7.5 billion in 2016 to reach 10 billion by the end of the 21st century.

 
  • Production efficiency – increase plant efficiency in the context of an expanding product portfolio and product variations
  • Asset utilisation – improve productivity of the plant whilst maintaining high safety standards for plant workforce and upholding high quality standards for the consumer
  • Regulatory compliance – guarantee accurate product weight and legible packaging label dates - "Best before" or "Use by"
  • Performance benchmarking across plants is enabled with the standardisation of manufacturing operations

The modularity of Shopfloor-Online MES allows you to take a step-by-step approach to MES investment. Expect each investment to make a return within 6-12 months.

  • Data-driven business decisions – real-time availability of performance data across all operations, integrated to the ERP provides a base for deeper business insight
  • Use OEE to measure manufacturing performance, improve production volumes and support lean initiatives
  • Reduce costs with paperless operations
  • Profitable business growth – improve costs control, increase ROI and maximise shareholders return
  • Support the IT strategy of your company with an information system that seamlessly connects plant equipment to plant operations, to business management
  • Lower the risk of implementation – take a step-by-step approach to MES software and incrementally meet business needs with Shopfloor-Online modules
  • Improve access and ease deployment – Shopfloor-Online is web-based, accessible anywhere on the network
  • A global solution – Lighthouse Systems’ manufacturing operations management solutions are multi-site, multi-lingual and multi-time-zone
  • Reduce the complexities of support and training with one MES addressing all operations needs
  • Cloud based MES Software – move the servers to the corporate data centre or move to the cloud
  • Lean IT – consolidate manufacturing operations with one scalable platform; remove home-grown applications and reduce the number of interfaces to various systems increasingly difficult to support

pladis (formerly United Biscuits) – multi-site manufacturer

Biscuit manufacturer takes a step-by-step approach to MES software:

  • Manufacturer gains improved efficiency with fast and reliable insight into quality, performance and OEE KPIs
  • Training time is reduced thanks to a standard MES model at each plant
  • Customer quality audits are reduced from 3 days to 2 hours

►pladis / United Biscuits case study

Ben Riach – Scottish bottling plant

Scotch whisky distillery improves quality and compliance with Shopfloor-Online:

  • Quality management software to support all on-the-line and off-the-line quality checks (quality of the bottle, screw thread, label, torque test) and create certificates of conformance