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Food and beverage plants running on Ignition.

Our food and beverage customers include fruit and nut processors, snack plants, a wine producer and a confectioner. Most projects cover OEE on packaging lines, quality checks, and keeping plant-floor records consistent with the ERP. Customers are described by type rather than by name.

What we built

Four food and beverage systems we built

Each is a real project. Hours shown are billed engineering hours.

About 1,100 hours over two years

A multi-plant agricultural processor

OEE state tracking for canister, bulk and pouch packaging lines, a daily import of SAP variance data, and a rebuild of one plant's operator and manager screens in Perspective with Active Directory security.

About 700 hours

A Western fruit packer and processor

NetSuite integration for orders and receiving, grading of incoming grower loads with photos, batch standards and batch-run costing, pre-op equipment checks, and time-clock job tracking.

A snack-food plant

Work orders for cleaning, roasting, blending and bulk lines that post to the ERP automatically, with lot management and QA approvals tied to the lot number rather than only the work order.

A wine producer's bottling lines

OEE on the bottling lines with daily reports, and a quality-check and SPC app with its own form builder, barcode scanning and photo capture.


What we bring

What we deliver for food and beverage plants

Food plants change products, packaging and lines more often than most industries. We build systems the plant can reconfigure on its own.

  • OEE. Our own engine, Kanoa MES or Sepasoft, with daily reports for plant managers
  • Quality. Configurable QA checks, SPC, sample tracking, photos and lot-based approvals
  • Receiving. Grading incoming loads, with photos attached to the record
  • Batching and costing. Batch standards and the actual cost of each run
  • ERP. NetSuite, SAP, M3 to SAP S/4HANA, and Boomi
  • Upgrades. Vision to Perspective, and Ignition 7.9 to 8.1
Questions

Common questions

Can you track lots from receiving to finished goods?+

We have built lot management, QA approvals tied to the lot number, and receiving with grading and photos. A full recall and genealogy system builds on those same pieces, and we scope it around your products and your plant.

Which OEE system should we use?+

We work three ways: our own OEE engine, which one customer rolled out to a second plant; Kanoa MES, from our partner Kanoa; or Sepasoft, which we have delivered on bottling and packaging lines. The right choice depends on your lines and who will maintain the system.

Do you work with NetSuite and SAP?+

Yes. We've integrated plants with NetSuite (directly and through Boomi), imported SAP variance data, and carried a plant's integration through a move from M3 to SAP S/4HANA.

Let's talk

Tell us about your food or beverage plant.

Call us and we'll connect you with the right engineer. If we aren't the right fit for your project, we'll tell you.

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(877) 318-0200
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