Remaining competitive in the food & beverage industry

The food and beverage industry continually faces market challenges due to increased demand for product differentiation, while trying to improve operational efficiency and reducing costs. Meeting these needs requires balancing profitability of core products without reducing productivity in others.

Emerson’s portfolio of innovative automation technologies and services can help companies achieve operational excellence to remain competitive in today’s rapidly changing environment. Our world-class expertise in measurement instrumentation, asset management, quality assurance technologies and its complete hygienic product portfolio can help companies optimise their production process and achieve their goals.

Keeping up with consumer demand to stay competitive

Manufacturers are faced with demands to increase capacity and reduce production costs while demonstrating environmental stewardship. This can be challenging due to an evolving market which requires high levels of quality and increased product variety.

Rise above market challenges with innovative solutions from Emerson. By partnering with Emerson, producers gain access to tools and critical insights required to maximise production, ensure quality, increase reliability, and improve sustainability to stay competitive and drive profitability.

Maximise production to meet market demands

With significant shifts in consumer preference toward more unique solutions, manufacturers must find ways to reduce changeover time while driving efficiency to maximise production. Technology plays a large role in increasing flexibility and providing critical insights for operations to increase throughput and meet market demands.

What’s your opportunity?

• Maintain production efficiency and reduce downtime with reliable measurement instrumentation
• Simplify supply chain and production scheduling/planning with tighter inventory control
• Optimise process throughput by tracking key process parameters
• Straightforward user interfaces streamline reconfiguration for process changeovers
• Improve operational efficiency with fast-fill capabilities from flow technologies

Improve quality while minimising loss

Consumers expect the highest quality when it comes to food and beverage products they purchase. Automation has driven product variability down over time, but even with these improvements it can still take extensive time for producers to respond to quality issues. Measuring quality parameters on-line can help address issues before out-of-spec products are created. Minimising out-of-spec product and preventing errors from leaving the plant are critical for improving quality and reducing regulatory compliance risks.

What’s your opportunity?

• Gain real-time process alerts to raise awareness to unfavorable process conditions
• Detect leaks in finished packaging to ensure optimal quality and minimise opportunities for contamination
• Monitor critical process conditions to ensure consistent product quality
• Reduce product scrap or product requiring reprocessing
• Control process temperatures with uninterrupted steam supply

Increase reliability to achieve production targets

Manufacturers are driven by consumers not only to maintain high levels of consistency with existing products, but also to develop and deliver new, experimental products. Maintaining product consistency and running new production lines requires reliable operations to remain competitive and deliver returns to fund new developments. Increasing reliability means reducing the frequency, duration and impact of planned and unplanned events. It is critical to achieving production targets and reducing costs.

What’s your opportunity?

• Increase reliability with real-time monitoring on your equipment and processes to shift from reactive to proactive maintenance
• Smart instrumentation can self-diagnose to provide early indication of issues
• Condition monitoring solutions deliver needed information for accurate diagnosis and resolution often before downtime occurs

Effectively clean process equipment with enhanced procedures

Clean-in-Place (CIP) procedures certify that process equipment and pipework are clean/sterile and ready for the next process to be run. CIP processes can present measurement challenges which induce energy loss and create waste that ultimately lead to higher operating costs. Emerson’s measurement instrumentation provides the most accurate, reliable, and long-lasting technology to ensure your process equipment is clean/sterile and ready for the next process to be run.

What’s your opportunity?

• Ensure effective sterilisation with accurate, repeatable instrumentation that withstands harsh conditions
• Automate and record detergent strength measurements throughout the CIP process
• Determine CIP cycle time based on process conditions and not worse-case scenarios
• Identify process inefficiencies throughout your facility by tracking steam, water, and wastewater
   

Maximise efficiency during cleaning and sanitation processes while ensuring consumer health and safety. Effectively clean your facility’s lines and vessels by monitoring key process parameters and maintaining tight process control. Services offered include:

• Increase energy efficiency in steam processes by using the Plantweb Insight Steam Trap Application
• Save time and resources in CIP processes with conductivity measurement

Global service capabilities and resources from a trusted partner

Emerson’s measurement instrumentation portfolio applies industry expertise and innovative solutions to your business challenges. Our global network of resources and service capabilities is the partner of choice for companies like yours. We have the expertise to help you dependably define, execute, and support your service strategy throughout the lifecycle of your operation while ensuring your workforce is up to the task.

For more information, visit: Emerson.com/RosemountFoodAndBeverage

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