SUSTAINABILITY IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Sustainable and resource-friendly food & beverage production
Ensuring sustainable production in the food and beverage industry must be considered from different perspectives. These include avoiding negative ecological and social effects throughout the entire supply and production chain, regional procurement and production, comprehensive transparency about ingredients, economical use of resources and energy, and the recyclability of packaging.
Taking these factors into account is not just an economic necessity. Sustainability is one of the most important purchasing criteria, particularly in the food and beverage industry, and is also subject to dynamic and demanding national and international regulations. The development of an integrated sustainability strategy and its implementation in organization, processes, research and supply chain management is therefore a central strategic task.
EFESO's comprehensive portfolio of solutions ensures that companies in the food and beverage industry can implement ambitious sustainability strategies with confidence:
- Strategy: conception, operationalization and implementation of approaches to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing and logistics and to increase resource efficiency in production.
- Transparency and traceability: recording the CO2 footprint, implementing key performance indicator systems and data-supported simulation and optimization approaches, and ensuring the traceability of the origin and manufacturing conditions of products and raw materials throughout the entire value chain.
- Resource-efficient production: development of footprint, production and logistics concepts to increase resource efficiency in production and avoid waste of raw materials and products by introducing efficient manufacturing, portioning and packaging concepts.
- Circular economy: exploiting efficiency and cost-cutting potential and improving the ecological footprint through re-manufacturing and re-use concepts as well as the introduction of a product development philosophy geared towards the entire product life cycle.
- Culture and skills: promoting a sustainability-conscious corporate and work culture and building skills with regard to the potential of the circular economy.
SUSTAINABILITY –
Successfully achieving ecological and social targets and utilizing the potential of the circular economy
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.
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Sustainable Products
Whether it is lower energy consumption of production machines in standby mode or shorter distances in logistics: Even small changes can significantly improve the overall sustainability balance of a product.
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
