DIGITALIZATION & AUTOMATION IN THE FOOD & BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
Implementing digital and automated processes in food production
The development and implementation of a consistent and future-oriented digitalization concept offers the food industry important starting points for increasing efficiency and flexibility and counteracting staff shortages.
To leverage this potential, the integrated use of digital technologies, modern planning methods, end-to-end data usage and consistent process automation is crucial. The focus can be on the implementation of comprehensive future factory concepts as well as on the digitalization and automation of the existing production system.
EFESO designs and implements digitalization projects in the food industry, from the automation of individual processes to the implementation of globally networked digital production systems and supply chains.
- Future factory and digitalization of the production system: development of an overall picture for the structured implementation of future factory and digitalization concepts. This includes, for example: integration of IT and physical processes, introduction of digital technology standards throughout the network, use of automation and digitalization potential to design lean, resilient, sustainable and adaptive production structures.
- Digitalization of planning and control: use of data-based simulation and modelling methods for the further development of planning processes and operationalization of strategic guidelines as well as for the integration of lean management approaches and digital tools within the framework of lean and effective management systems (OPEX 4.0).
- Automation of physical and information-driven processes: saving resources and increasing efficiency by automating manual processes in direct and indirect areas as well as introducing a modular and networked production and IT architecture.
- Skills and role development: continuous empowerment and further development of employees and managers in their changing roles through digital learning formats and intensive change management.
DIGITALIZATION & AUTOMATION –
Improving efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness with new technologies
Further solutions for the food & beverage industry
Clients
CASE STUDIES - PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
Lean development in R&D
Innovation impulses for lighting designers. The LED revolution has made many business models obsolete, while the wave of digitization and the associated technological change have increased the pace of change by a factor of X. To keep pace here, agile working methods are necessary not only in manufacturing, but also in R&D. Lean methods can prove particularly helpful - but can they be transferred 1:1 from manufacturing to development?
Digital Process Twin: Process optimization through Predictive Quality and Predictive Production
An automotive supplier improved the transparency of work and organizational processes in a production plant for dashboards. With a "Digital Process Twin" from EFESO, the company reduced the reject rate and made improvement potentials in its value creation networks visible.
Lean Digital Manager
Shaping the factory of the future with Lean 4.0. How can lean principles be combined with the technologies and possibilities of networked digitization in value creation networks? By further qualifying employees to become decision-makers. The EFESO certification program for "Lean Digital Manager" shows how digitalization of lean production works. To do this, it combines strategies with Industry 4.0 technologies.
Stabilize Processes and Reduce Costs
A mechanical engineering company is redesigning its process landscape: A manufacturer of machine systems and special machines has already achieved a high level of automation in its production processes. The company is now targeting further, cross-departmental goals for process automation. Together with EFESO, it defines fields of application in the Operations area in which Robot Process Automation (RPA) tools should save time.
Digital transformation in the food industry
The EFESO case study describes how a confectionery manufacturer is expanding its competitive position with a comprehensive digitalization initiative. With EFESO, it is expanding the successes already achieved by its WCOM (*World Class Operations Management) program in the direction of highly digitalized production.
OPEX / WCOM for brewery group
An international brewery group achieved significant OEE improvements in a WCOM pilot project with EFESO. EFESO's case study describes how this success was continued throughout the company's global value network, leading to improvements and savings.
Cushioning cost pressure with energy management
A dairy group identifies the topic of energy efficiency as a lever to cushion cost pressure from falling production volumes. The case study explains, how the company determines with EFESO suitable starting points for one of its plants. The potential of the measures in terms of possible energy savings, their CapEx and their amortization are specifically quantified.
On the road to digital excellenz
The EFESO case study describes how a chocolate manufacturer started its digital transformation with EFESO. The goal: to activate potential in production and logistics to increase efficiency. The project team laid the foundations for this with a group-wide digitalization strategy and a roadmap for its implementation in several plants around the world.
Future Factory F&B
A dairy company is continuing its success story with a clear vision: After times of war and factory fires, it is building the most technologically advanced "Future Factory" in its region. With EFESO, the company is developing a concept for the factory, which is to be built on 70,000 square meters by 2030 - and is combining this planning with a digitization/Industry 4.0 initiative for ongoing production
