Comprehensive MOM Solution: Advanced Manufacturing for Food&Beverage

The Challenges in the Food&Beverage Sector: a Volatile Environment

The food and beverage industry, commonly known as Food&Beverage, faces daily challenges derived from market volatility, pressure to optimize processes, and the need to comply with increasingly demanding regulations. Specifically, the supply chain and manufacturing encounter a series of obstacles day after day that require reaching higher levels of efficiency and adaptability to maximize the potential of the manufacturing environment.

Main Obstacles in the Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Among the main obstacles are:

• Highly dynamic markets that affect raw materials.
• Suppliers with very long delivery times and often with delays.
• Increasingly complex manufacturing with a high mix of products, operations, constant format changes, and increasingly shorter production runs…
• High heterogeneity of raw materials and quality problems throughout the supply chain.
• Equipment failures that cause production losses.
• Complex management of materials and quality controls.
• Variable demand from both our supply chain customer and the end customer who ends up buying our product.

Therefore, being excellent in all steps of the manufacturing chain is mandatory:

• Starting with order reception.
• Going through the planning and sequencing of tasks.
• Executing the tasks ensuring the highest quality and tracing everything that happens in the process.
• Optimizing our processes to the maximum to obtain the best results in production KPIs, such as OEE.
• Ensuring that delivery times are met, the amount of stock is minimized, and a correct distribution flow is ensured from the warehouse to the next customer in the supply chain.

Where to start? Cutting steps towards true operational efficiency

To face this set of needs, it is essential to adopt a holistic approach through a modular Comprehensive MOM Solution (Manufacturing Operations Management), ranging from data collection and standardization of communications to integration with ERP.

What is Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)?

MOM solutions cover all aspects of manufacturing operations, encompassing planning, production, quality, warehouse management, maintenance, supply chain, and people management functions, working as fully integrable systems with each other in a single solution that allows growth and evolution.

In addition, they provide tools for decision-making based on centralized and contextualized data, driving organizations to adopt Data-Centric philosophies that facilitate the integration of manufacturing systems with business systems (ERP) and, in this way, align productive operations with strategic objectives through Enterprise Intelligence solutions.

How Does Becolve’s Comprehensive MOM Solution Drive Advanced Manufacturing in Food&Beverage?

Becolve Digital’s Comprehensive MOM Solution combines multiple essential systems in a single modular and scalable solution, allowing organizations to evolve from basic process control and monitoring functionalities to maximum MOM functionality. Specifically, this solution integrates:

• Process Control Systems (SCADA-IIoT-Batch)
• Production control (MES)
• Maintenance Management (EAM/GMAO)
• Planning/Sequencing (APS)

In this way, it allows technological standardization (Realtime, Communications and Agility in reengineering), in addition to the implementation of a MultiSite architecture and facilitates expansion through a Roll-Out model.

Key Functionalities of the Comprehensive MOM Solution

The Comprehensive MOM Solution is based on three main functionalities:

• Real-time integration
  

  The real-time integration of the different elements that make up the solution improves productive efficiency at a transversal level, since it streamlines operations, ensuring traceability, quality, and decision-making with reliable data by unifying SCADA-IIoT and MES. In addition, it maximizes the availability and performance of equipment by synchronizing communication between production and maintenance, as well as facilitating the implementation of proactive maintenance based on conditions through constant monitoring of process variables and guarantees flexible planning and immediate, with complete visibility of the entire manufacturing process.

• Connected worker
  

  On the other hand, the collaborative tools that are part of the solution generate an ecosystem of continuous improvement and operational excellence within the organization, putting valuable information at the service of people, facilitating the exchange of data in real time between teams and ensuring compliance with procedures in production. In the same line, these tools favor continuous training, promote the development of new skills, encourage the versatility of personnel and, in general, empower people in their autonomy and decision-making within the organization.

• IA Data Driven
  

  As we saw previously, the advanced data analytics platform of the Comprehensive MOM Solution drives a Data-Centric culture within organizations, focused on democratizing and optimizing the use of reliable and contextualized data in all layers and profiles of the company. This allows improving operations in production processes and making more accurate business decisions based on real manufacturing data (Enterprise Intelligence), making visible the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, helping to define the best strategy for implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and detecting opportunities that maximize its positive impact within the company.

So, how Do Food&Beverage Organizations Benefit from Becolve’s Comprehensive MOM Solution?

• Greater capacity to adapt to changes in demand, delays in the delivery of raw materials, format changes, short series…
  thanks to a theoretical production planning synchronized with real production and maintenance.
• Optimization of the profit margin…
  by improving productive efficiency and reducing costs.
• Guarantee of availability and performance of assets to avoid unplanned stops and avoid productive losses…
  thanks to optimal maintenance management.
• Minimization of quality problems of raw materials and product, ensuring compliance with regulations and regulations…
  through effective and standardized quality and traceability management.
• Efficient management of raw materials and products in the process of reception, production, inventory control and expirations…
  due to effective warehouse management.
• Knowledge management within the organization and promotion of interdepartmental communication and the empowerment of people…
  promoting rapid training, greater involvement and efficiency of people.
• Impulse to agile decision-making based on contextualized data…
  facilitating the application of advanced analytics in an intelligent way to maximize the benefits.
• Technological standardization that allows growing in an orderly manner, including:
  • Standardization of communications.
  • Real-time monitoring.