Processing, dairy, bakery and bottling
Food & beverage
Food plants combine continuous process control, hygiene requirements, short shelf lives and traceability obligations. They also run hard, with limited windows for anything that touches production — which makes retrofit and phased work the only practical approach.
What goes wrong
Typical problems in food & beverage
If more than two of these are familiar, there is a first project here worth doing.
- 01
Temperature excursions discovered after product is affected
- 02
CIP cycles assumed to be effective rather than verified and recorded
- 03
Traceability from raw material to despatch is manual and slow
- 04
Giveaway on fill weight is known to exist but not quantified
- 05
Changeover and cleaning time is a large, unmeasured share of the day
What we build
Solutions for food & beverage
- 01
Cold chain and process temperature monitoring
Continuous logging across storage, process and despatch with alerting and an auditable record.
- 02
CIP verification and recording
Time, temperature, concentration and flow recorded per cycle, so cleaning is evidenced rather than assumed.
- 03
Batch traceability
Raw material to finished goods genealogy with the process conditions attached, making a recall query fast and bounded.
- 04
Filling and weight control
Checkweigher and filler integration with statistical control, so giveaway becomes visible and controllable.
- 05
Line efficiency monitoring
Downtime, changeover and cleaning time measured separately, because they have completely different improvement paths.
Technology
What is typically involved
- Hygienic temperature, flow, pressure and conductivity instrumentation
- PLC and SCADA for process sequencing and CIP
- Checkweigher and filler integration
- Batch genealogy database
- Continuous logging with alarm escalation
- Reporting for customer and regulatory audit
Outcomes
What changes
Described rather than quantified — we do not publish numbers we have not measured for you.
- Temperature excursions caught while product can still be protected
- CIP effectiveness evidenced with a per-cycle record
- Recall scope determinable in minutes
- Fill giveaway quantified and reducible
- Cleaning and changeover time measured rather than estimated
Capabilities
Most relevant here
- Industrial AutomationControl system design, panel engineering, machine and line automation.
- SCADA DevelopmentSCADA design, implementation, migration and integration.
- Machine MonitoringReal-time machine, production and downtime monitoring with OEE.
- Industrial IoTGet data off your machines — existing PLCs, new sensors, or both.
- Custom Industrial SoftwareWeb applications, backends and APIs built for plant operations.
Questions
Food & Beverage — common questions
Can monitoring be installed in a wash-down area?
Yes, with appropriately rated instrumentation and enclosures — typically IP66 or above, hygienic mountings, and cable entries designed for wash-down. This is a specification question rather than an obstacle; the cost difference is real but modest.
We have very little downtime available for installation. Is that workable?
It is the normal constraint in this sector. Most of our installation work in food plants happens during cleaning windows and planned maintenance, in short phases. We plan the work so each phase is independently complete and the line is production-ready at the end of every window.
Tell us about your food & beverage plant
What runs on your floor, and what you cannot currently answer. We will tell you what is readable today and what a first phase would involve.