Explore solutions utilized by the Jimmy Dean brand, part of the Hillshire Brands portfolio, to address weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls that was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue.

Learn how Sleeman Breweries grew their production, improved process control, and avoided the high expense of building a new greenfield facility.

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Chocolates Valor S.A. produces high-quality chocolate bars, chocolates and snacks. The company invested in digitalization solutions for the production environment, in particular through Preactor APS, which is a family of products for production planning and programming that improves the synchronization of manufacturing processes and offers greater visibility and control. It showed an immediate return on investment.

Gruppo Campari closed 26 acquisitions in the spirits industry in the past two decades to become the world’s sixth player, with over 50 premium and super-premium brands. With each acquisition, Gruppo Campari needs to integrate new products, plants and assets into its operations management systems. By 2012 they realized there was no standard workflow for document authoring and validation, and information was shared via email or phone. Using Siemens technology, Gruppo Campari has created a unified repository for all product specifications and increased the efficiency of product development and manufacturing processes.

Nutrien is the world’s largest producer of potash and the second-largest producer of nitrogen fertilizer. Many of the company’s individual sites have been using PI System software for some time, but until recently, Nutrien had no enterprise-level system for handling data. By centralizing the flow of data through the company, Nutrien now has better coordination, anticipation, and insight into operations across the business.

Today’s dynamic manufacturing climate presents multiple challenges, forcing manufacturers to compare traditional and modern batch and rethink what to expect when choosing a system.

Successful business systems analyst managers must supply executives with real-time data to bridge the gap between enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operational data. When all these data points are tied into an enterprise-level dashboard, such as a unified operations center, decision-makers have instant access to a wide array of vital metrics.

Data is the key to unlocking the insights to address these challenges, but it’s not enough just to collect data. A robust operational data management solution and platform is pivotal to harnessing the massive amounts of data generated within food and beverage plants.

Now is the time to start your IoT journey.  The trend toward digitalization of the world’s industrial plant facilities is already in motion and companies must get started quickly to remain profitable and competitive.  Now operators can connect, collect and analyze data from aging as well as leading infrastructures to immediately monitor machines in one centralized location.

To get a product into consumers’ shopping baskets, companies must pay strict attention to everything from the recipes for their products and where materials are sourced, to working conditions and purpose driven marketing, all while introducing new consumer preferred products to the market faster than ever before.

As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc on industries across the globe, consumers are drastically changing their habits. The shakeup has been especially pronounced in the food sector, where in-person shopping is no longer being done as frequently and groceries are increasingly being ordered for delivery. Food producers are making aggressive changes to adapt to the new landscape. Remote monitoring and analytics provide the tools necessary to stay ahead of the curve.