IT solutions for the beverage industry

When it comes to producing beverages, the flow of information is a crucial factor for success in terms of optimising your production costs. By providing information on all levels of the production operation - not only making the beverage itself, but also filling and packaging plus the relevant intralogistics – you can optimise your operative tasks, acquire your production data, and obtain harmonised, validated key ratios and statistics.

Coordinated, efficient procedures with MES
Krones’ Manufacturing Execution System (MES) subsumes a holistic approach to the information flow, and ensures that information is responsively provided in all areas of your production operation.

As a complete-package vendor for process technology, filling and packaging solutions, and logistical systems, Krones is thoroughly familiar with your kind of process. We’ve had abundant experience with your sort of operations – that’s why we’re able to support you in handling your tasks by providing IT solutions in the requisite degree of detail, when you’re planning a new facility or optimising one of your existing plants.

The Krones MES consists of individual modules, which can be deployed in your facility either individually or as a complete package, to suit the job profile involved:

Production fine-planning

• Your benefit:
  Optimum capacity utilisation of your production lines 
  Automatic factoring in of production restrictions and resources available

Order management LMS (Line Management System)

• Your benefit:
  Centralised order management and preprogrammed machine parameterisation 
  Fast integration of order-referenced data from the ERP system

Process management

• Your benefit:
  Options for direct intervention in the production sequences 
  Decision-making support for internal and cross-facility matters

Maintenance management with KAM (Krones Asset Management)

• Your benefit:
  Continuous, automated monitoring of all maintenance tasks 
  Rising line availability thanks to preventive maintenance

Production data acquisition with LDS (Line Documentation System) and reporting with ReportKit

• Your benefit:
  Order-referenced acquisition of production and consumption data incl. batch tracking 
  Feasibility studies based on real-time analyses and historical evaluation of production data

Quality management with QualiKit

• Your benefit: 
  Integration of all analytical steps for quality control 
  Batch-oriented quality assurance

Performance analysis LPA (Line Performance Analyser)

• Your benefit: 
  Denser information  on availability, output, quality and orders
  Key ratio analyses (OEE - Overall Equipment Effectiveness) referenced to orders and shifts
  Classification of downtime causes

At Vitaqua, a mineral water and soft drinks producer in Breuna near Kassel, a holistic concept has been installed using Krones’ IT solutions. You can find out more in the film…