Food and Beverage Automation

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Get the Most Out of Your Food & Beverage Manufacturing Processes

People consume the products you produce, so as food and beverage manufacturers, it is crucial that your operations are optimized to ensure quality and safety. After all, consumer health and their satisfaction are at stake. Manufacturing goals that we can help you achieve include:

  • Operational excellence, efficiency, and sustainability.
  • Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) for better asset reliability, health, and life.
  • Alert notifications for faster response time.
  • Predictive maintenance for reduced downtime and costs.
  • Optimal packaging production.
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for OEMs

It’s safe to say that all Food & Beverage manufacturers are looking for magical gains in their manufacturing — improved efficiency, quality, performance, and uptime. The ICONICS Suite can help you realize these magical gains by automating your operations. You’ll be able to specify and keep track of crucial KPI’s for enhanced OEE and productivity. MEIDS also allows your operators and personnel to work more efficiently and precisely to maintain quality standards.  

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Predictive Maintenance for OEMs

Reducing the substantial costs related to unexpected downtime is essential to running a profitable operation, so knowing when to schedule maintenance and on what asset is key. The ICONICS Suite of software gives you the capability for predictive maintenance. Our software:

  • Collects and analyzes real-time operational data.
  • Provides rich, detailed visualizations of your production and assets.
  • Gives timely notifications prior to any deterioration of manufacturing performance or efficiency.

As a result, your operators can make informed decisions about optimally scheduling and performing maintenance.

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Get quality data that can be used to its fullest potential

The ICONICS Suite wrangles data to provide advanced operational visualization and insight resulting in the optimization of your production and packaging. You’ll be able to:

  • Visualize Production in Real Time

    Visualize production in real time with rapid animations and responsive displays. Graphs, trends, and other metrics update in real-time to provide a comprehensive production overview. 

  • Monitor Production Quality

    Manage food and beverage production quality with native graphs and trends and quality reporting with MEIDS’ Quality AnalytiX®. Quality AnalytiX allows operators, quality personnel, manufacturing engineers, and management to view quality SPC data. 

  • Generate Comprehensive Reports

    Our fully integrated reporting module ReportWorX™ 64 organizes data into easily accessible report spreadsheets, especially for FDA compliant records and signatures. And its advanced scheduling engine can deliver reports directly to your email, phone, or other HMI screen, so your data is always when and where you need it.

  • Oversee Production Packaging

    Supervise production packaging using real-time data and our advanced dashboards. You’ll ensure all aspects of production packaging and its related logistics are running efficiently and optimally.  

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Case Study: Catania Oils and Data Acuity

Catania Oils uses MEIDS automation software suite to leverage data for informational insight for plantwide visualization into production. The company monitors OEE and loss deployment to gain an even greater insight into the potential loss of efficiency resulting in improved production efficiency. Now, the company is focusing on the entire production process as opposed to focusing on a single machine fault or quality defect allowing them to capitalize on even greater efficiency gains. 

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See What Our Customers are Saying

“ KHS Maschinen standardized on GENESIS to control its applications and machines and to visualize the entire Aseptic Cold Filling (ACF) process. The KHS’s ACF process has completely eliminated the need for preservatives, thus improving product quality, and the GENESIS Software Suite is able to meet KHS’ sophisticated needs for scalability, graphic capabilities and modularity for machine control and visualization. ”

KHS Machinen  |  Dortmund, Germany

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“ The MEIDS GENESIS software is so easy to use. DataWorX™ is a very understated component with a great deal of power. The graphics that can easily be created in GraphWorX™ are outstanding. ”

Senior Management Team  |  UB McVitie’s Glasgow Plant

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“ MEIDS’ ability to quickly collect, visualize, and report OPC data, and the mix of robust OPC clients was the reason we based our Enterprise Information System on GENESIS. ”

Eric Bellas, Director of Engineering  |  Cyberlogic

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Solving Manufacturing Challenges in the Food & Beverage Industry

Greater Production Visibility

You can use the ICONICS Suite to get greater production visibility, and allow your team to monitor the real-time status of your operations and assets. You can then use this information to identify problems and maintenance requirements and trends for better operational insights and improvements. 

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Monitor your overall equipment efficiency and loss deployment to improve production efficiency.

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Operational Insight

It’s imperative to get the most out of your manufacturing processes to ensure cost effectiveness and a competitive edge. With the ICONICS Suite, you’ll have the tools to capture and analyze quality data for operational insight for a much more efficient and profitable operation.  

Cost Reduction

The ICONICS Suite lets you make data-driven decisions for greater control over your manufacturing operations and for pinpointing areas of improvement. You’ll also be able to manage alarming to quickly respond to issues. What you’ll get is increased output and significant cost reduction. 

Real-Time Traceability

Governmental food quality and safety regulations require food and beverage manufacturers to trace products through the entirety of the process. MEIDS software allows for real-time collection and analysis of production data, and also automatically generates reports for company and regulation purposes. If there is any problem with a particular batch, MEIDS can help you quickly identify the source of the issue.  

Total Factory Automation Supplier

The future of MEIDS and Mitsubishi Electric (ME) as global automation providers is unparalleled. Mitsubishi's complete automation hardware portfolio includes controllers, drives, CNC, and robots, while MEIDS complete software portfolio allows customers to historize, visualize, and analyze all of their manufacturing data. Together, we will bring you operational optimization, no matter the process or environment.

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