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Digital Transformation: Making Smart Manufacturing Possible

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Smart Manufacturing – Transforming the Food and Beverage Industry Globally

The food production industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the world – and South Africa is no exception. The industry has no choice but to keep up with its ever-expanding consumer base, all the while facing increasingly complex challenges throughout its supply chain.

With regards to sourcing, South African farmers, like farmers across the globe, are finding it a serious challenge to keep up with an ever-increasing demand for food. Merely increasing output using current methods of agriculture production is no longer sustainable – 86% of SA’s land is already being utilised for crops or grazing. In order for food production to keep up with demand – and to adapt for environmental sustainability – sustainable agricultural practices must be widely adopted and implemented. This includes finding a balance between the need for fuel (ethanol) and the need for food, which underlies a more recent concern – the matter of food security.

Food security is concerned with South Africa’s capacity to be self-sufficient, guaranteeing the sustained availability of nutritious food for all its people.

Empowering You to Drive Operational Excellence Across the Value Chain

AVEVA has created an end-to-end industrial software platform with solutions that remove information silos. This empowers customers to improve efficiency, increase profitability and maximise return on capital – across the value chain.

Find out how our most comprehensive portfolio of software products is
transforming the industry.

Challenges Facing the Food & Beverage Industry

Changing market needs

Changing market needs

Customers expect variety – it is what makes food manufacturers more competitive. This means greater production agility and shorter production runs which, in turn, necessitates greater control. Greater control can only be achieved by turning data into actionable information in real-time. In addition, that information has to be available to decision-makers anywhere, any time and on any device.

  • Historian – as well as Client and Online editions
  • Information Server
  • Intelligence
  • IS³ Online
  • SmartGlance
  • Dream Report for IS³

Product traceability

Product traceability

More so than in any other industry, Food and Beverage require traceability throughout the supply chain. This ensures the protection of its customers, as well as the ability to rapidly respond to anomalies.

  • QI Analyst
  • MES/Quality
  • Recipe Manager Plus
  • InBatch
  • Skelta BPM Workflow

Operations visibility

Operations visibility

Operators need to be informed, not perplexed. The correct SCADA and HMI solutions, together with increased machine intelligence, hold the key.

  • AVEVA System Platform
  • Alarm Advisor
  • InTouch
  • InTouch Machine Edition

Strict regulatory compliance

Strict regulatory compliance

Consumers are protected by ever-expanding legislation that was designed to safeguard their health and safety. The contravention of these regulations is not an option. For South African food producers, regulatory compliance is the key to unlocking more market doors in Europe and the US.

  • MES/Quality
  • Skelta BPM Workflow

Fragmented IT

Fragmented IT

Business IT and industrial IT were invented for different purposes, but they share a common goal. Today, both can work in tandem to provide effective decision support throughout the organisation.

  • Enterprise Integrator
  • Intelligence

Economic pressures and doing more – with less

Economic pressures and doing more – with less

Remaining in business in this industry requires outsmarting – and being more efficient than – your competitors. One way of achieving this is by empowering your innovation with agile and cost-effective industrial automation and IT technologies.

  • Historian
  • Intelligence
  • MES Operations
  • Corporate Energy Management
  • SmartGlance

Effective process control

Effective process control

Visibility into operations cause-and-effect scenarios, effective alarm management and operator awareness are all crucial to ensuring efficient processes.

  • AVEVA System Platform
  • MES/Operations
  • InTouch
  • InTouch Access Anywhere

Quality and compliance

Quality and compliance

Continuous quality improvement cuts down on production costs while enforcing standard operating procedures leads to a quick resolution of issues.

  • MES/Quality
  • Skelta BPM Workflow
  • QI Analyst

Line and equipment performance management

Line and equipment performance management

Extracting the most value from the hardware, software and people involved in the production process.

  • MES/Performance
  • InTouch Machine Edition

Maintenance and uptime

Maintenance and uptime

Empower your maintenance personnel to reach maximum efficiency by guiding them through diagnostic and maintenance procedures via portable devices.

  • Mobile Operator Rounds
  • Avantis EAM

Increase Operational Performance

  • Transform manufacturing operations, improving profitability and yield while maximising flexibility.
  • Use smart manufacturing to drive higher levels of collaboration, standardisation, agility and operational governance.
  • Reduce costs and complexity using a model-driven MES/MOM software approach, enabling the deployment of standards-based operations across multiple sites.

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