Unique Challenges
Beverage manufacturers have a unique mix of manufacturing issues. Increased demand for new products and innovative packaging leads to more product changeover and smaller batch sizes. WIP must be minimized and rejects are typically not recoverable leading to waste.
Real-time management of the production environment is critical to insure profitability. The display of real-time KPIs (key performance indicators) and informational data is necessary in order to meet production goals. The sections below provide a brief list of the more prominent beverage manufacturing applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Target/Actual/Efficiency display | |
|---|---|
| APPLICATION |
Efficiency is the key to any successful manufacturing environment. Beverage fill and pack operations need to know if they are meeting production goals. Convey real-time production goals to plant floor employees by showing the takt-based target count, what has actually been produced and optionally a calculated efficiency or piece variance. |
| PRODUCT |
87/805 Efficiency Display, XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12", XL600 Production Monitors Numeric 2" Multi-line |
| Changeover time/Downtime display | |
| APPLICATION |
Because of the high-speed nature of the beverage packaging environment, reducing changeover and downtime is critical to staying competitive. Real-time display of changeover and downtime helps operators and maintenance staff reduce changeover and downtime through awareness. |
| PRODUCT |
87/705 Programmable Timer, XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12" |
| Rate monitor display w/auto downtime detection | |
| APPLICATION |
Beverage fill and pack lines typically run at high speed. Operators and maintenance staff know that this type of equipment runs best at a “sweet spot” run rate. Large display of production rates help staff keep the equipment running at peak efficiency while automatic detection and display of accumulated downtime in red keeps everyone informed. |
| PRODUCT |
87/415 Rate Display Plus, XL400 Production Monitors Numeric 4" to 12" |
Beverage Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the beverage industry that we've helped with our solutions.
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• AVG Diageo |
• Coors Brewing |
