Optimising Food and Beverages Plant Operations with Reliability Solutions

Smarter Reliability for F&B

The food and beverage industry is highly competitive, where efficiency, sustainability, and profitability are crucial for success. Reliable processes help maintain product quality while cutting operational costs. By adopting a maintenance strategy focused on reliability, plants can run smoothly and meet demands for innovation, safety, and sustainability.

Reliability Insights

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Key Challenges in Food & Beverage Operations

Food and beverage plants face multiple challenges that impact productivity and profitability, such as unplanned downtime, labour shortages, and operational inefficiencies. In this fast-paced sector, reliability is critical—just one equipment failure can lead to costly disruptions and compromise food safety. With these challenges in mind, effective maintenance and operational strategies are crucial to maintaining smooth operations and mitigating potential losses.

Operational downtime can cause significant disruptions, affecting everything from production schedules to product quality and costs. The diagram highlights the key areas responsible for downtime in food and beverage (F&B) plants.

Predictive Maintenance in F&B: Ensuring Food Safety

  • Prevents unexpected equipment failures by identifying issues early.
  • Optimises production efficiency by keeping machinery in optimal working condition.
  • Ensures consistent, high-quality output by maintaining machinery within specified operational parameters.
  • Reduces costly unplanned maintenance by enabling predictive maintenance.
  • Ensures compliance with safety and regulatory standards by maintaining equipment functionality.
  • Extends machinery lifespan by identifying and addressing issues early.

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Condition Monitoring Advantage

Stay Ahead with Acoem’s Technology

Through advanced monitoring systems, detect issues before they disrupt mining operations:

  • Wireless Monitoring: Seamless installation for conveyor belts and mobile equipment.
  • Fiber Optics Monitoring System: Robust solutions for both data transmission and equipment monitoring over extended distances.
  • Real-Time Insights: Early fault detection minimizes downtime.
  • NEST Vision:  A comprehensive monitoring solution combining portability, wireless capabilities, and online real-time data analysis to ensure maximum flexibility and efficiency. All in one (portable, wireless, online)
  • Accurex AI : Acoem’s cutting-edge AI-powered diagnostic technology, leveraging expert-approved data to deliver precise, automated fault detection and actionable maintenance insights.

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Our Reliability Services

We offer essential tools for food and beverage manufacturing teams to enhance operational efficiency and reduce downtime. These services include:

  • Health assessments for critical equipment such as compressors, pumps, and motors, ensuring early detection of potential failures and minimising production disruptions.
  • Precision alignment and calibration of machine trains, optimising performance and reducing wear, ensuring smooth production cycles.
  • Dynamic balancing for fans and blowers, preventing unbalanced loads and improving energy efficiency in food and beverage plants.
  • Advanced troubleshooting using real-time data to diagnose and resolve issues quickly, maintaining consistent product quality and production efficiency.
  • Leak detection for compressors and blowers, minimising downtime and ensuring continuous operation in critical food processing environments.
  • Comprehensive support through training, coaching, and gap analysis audits to ensure an industry leading workforce and procedures.

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Access the right data at the right time with Advisor Dashboard

Don’t wait for your machine to break down to gather your data. Accurate and timely data is key to taking the right preventative actions. The Advisor Dashboard is your personal gateway to all your monitoring data and gives you access to everything you need to know about the health and performance of your machines.
An easy-to-use, web-based data visualisation platform, it manages and stores all your machinery’s information in a single, secure database.

The Dashboard includes:

  • Expert recommendations provided for each individual piece of machinery within 24 hours of collection
  • Overview of all your assets or your entire network across multiple sites
  • Historical data for comparative trend & root cause analysis
  • Prioritised maintenance schedule.
  • AI (Accurex)-augmented diagnosis with alarms further investigated and analyzed by Level 3 & 4 experts

Our actions recommendation based on human expertise complemented by AI-driven analysis allows us to reach peak efficiency from day 1. Our diagnostic AI is independently trained and thus immediately operational.

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Customer Testimonials

“Working with Acoem has been a key factor in improving our operations. Their expertise and customised solutions have helped us streamline processes, reduce operational costs by 17% and increase overall efficiency.”

— Operations Manager, Global Beverage Production Facility

 

 

“Acoem’s Advisor Services helped us reduce equipment downtime by 22%, ensuring smoother operations in our high-demand production environment.”

— Vice President – Operations, Ready-to-Eat Food Manufacturing Facility

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