The food and beverage sector is under constant pressure to deliver lower cost products and meet increasingly demanding delivery schedules. Specifically there's the need to:
- ensure giveaway is minimized with ever increasing raw material costs
- achieve on-time deliveries through effective production planning
Also, with high levels of competition constant product refresh and innovation is essential, this means:
- when new product ranges are launched, you need to get production running efficiently as quickly as possible
- the packaging process must be optimized to cater for many different products
Being able to identify downtimes, bottlenecks and the effect of change-overs throughout the production and packing process has a significant potential to deliver efficiency and capacity gains. This is where the GAIN4 solution comes in. See below to find out which modules address the issues highlighted.
- User configurable real time production scoreboards (GAIN4 Andon)
- Real-time monitoring of downtime and reasons (GAIN4 Efficiency)
- Calculation and analysis of historic data for Efficiency and OEE by individual machine and line (GAIN4 Efficiency)
- Recipe selection for machine setup (GAIN4 Efficiency)
- Control of giveaway and conformance to Average weights & measures legislation (GAIN4 Quality)
- Tracking and analysis of labour cost for whole plant, by line, machine or job (GAIN4 Labour Tracking)
- Set up and amend detailed production plans and conformance to them in real-time (GAIN4 Tracking)
Benefits
- Resolves packaging problems by helping to remove packaging bottlenecks
- Reduces raw material inputs and maximize yields
- Improves utilization by optimizing change overs between product changes
- Reduces time lost to clean downs by better production planning
- Identifies and allows release of additional capacity
- Provides full product traceability