Food and Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods

Smart Manufacturing Through Digital Transformation

Smart manufacturing is empowering food and beverage manufacturers to transform their businesses and achieve significant value by leveraging the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cloud, and analytics solutions. As a recognised leader in smart manufacturing, AVEVA works with 23 of the top 25 food and beverage manufacturers to enable improvements across the asset and operations lifecycle, maximise return on capital investments, and increase profitability.

The pressures on the food and beverage/consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries are at an all-time high

Over the last decade, the number of product variations has surged along with the velocity of new product introductions.

The food production industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the world as well as in South Africa. It’s an industry that has to keep pace with an ever-expanding consumer base while facing increasingly complex challenges throughout its supply chain. On the sourcing side, South African farmers, like those elsewhere in the world, are struggling to keep pace with an ever-increasing demand for food. Simply increasing the output of current methods of agricultural production is not the solution – 86% of South Africa’s land area is already used for crops or grazing. If food production is to keep pace with demand and adapt for environmental change, sustainable agricultural practices must be widely adopted. That includes balancing the need for fuel (ethanol) and the need for food which leads to a more recent concern which is that of “food security” – SA’s ability to be self-sufficient and to guarantee the availability of nutritious food for all its citizens.