Mitsubishi’s view of fit for purpose food & beverage production

The food and beverage industry faces major challenges, such as increased product diversity, shorter product life cycles, fluctuating order quantities and stricter statutory regulations tracking and hygiene.  Continuous improvement of production processes and efficiency increases cost savings, optimises profit margins and above all guarantees competitiveness in the long term.

Sustainability

The basis of this is data transparency within networked production, which is easily achieved with standard automation technology. Increased automation substantially contributes to the long-term sustainability of new systems, as much as improving throughput on existing machines and production lines.

ERP Integration

By offering a wide range of solutions and services for the food and beverage industry.  Mitsubishi and its partners offer solutions ranging from the integrated automation of simple inverters for controlling dough mixing applications that can improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), to robot technology for increasing productivity. Production, energy and quality data can be communicated continuously and easily using the MES-IT interface module.

In order to do this, production data and test results are recorded during each stage of production, from individual processes to whole production operations, and transferred in real time directly to higher-level systems. From batch control to “food safe” robots, from energy management to direct reporting in to your ERP systems, you can be sure that Mitsubishi Electric has the solutions and flexibility to be your automation partner.

Optimising control

The optimising of machine running times by preventative maintenance is also a major issue in the food processing industry. If a machine suddenly fails, an entire batch is usually lost. This is  expensive and damaging to productivity. Modern control platforms, tablet-like touch screen operating devices like the Mitsubishi Electric HMI GOT2000 series, and sensors with comprehensive, integrated functionalities as well as flexible maintenance concepts like MAPS, the Life-Cycle-Software solution from Mitsubishi Electric, provide the necessary data transparency for simple implementation of preventative maintenance concepts.

Mitsubishi Electric has built a strong understanding of the needs of the food and beverage industry which has led to us being the number one automation vendor to food, beverage and CPG businesses throughout Asia. Our reputation for quality, reliability and innovation supports our customers in the most intensely competitive regions in the world market.

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