Food & Beverage
Food and beverage producers must balance strict safety and quality requirements with volatile demand and frequent recipe or packaging changes. Software-defined automation helps standardize, secure and rapidly adapt production while protecting compliance.
Benefits
Faster Rollout of Recipes, Formats, and Label Changes
Faster implementation of new recipes, formats and label changes across lines and
plants.
Secure Browser-Based Engineering with Policy-Driven Remote Access
Browser-based engineering enables secure, maintenance-free IDE access from anywhere – letting machine vendors like Krones in with grace through policy-driven remote access, breaking monopolies while maintaining full governance.
Built-In Compliance with Full Versioning and Approval Workflows
Improved compliance with complete version history, approval workflows and tamper‑proof change logs.
Lower Contamination and Recall Risk Through Immutable Change Logs
Reduced contamination and recall risk through immutable log meeting consistent, validated automation standards.
Lower Cost-to-Serve via Remote Troubleshooting and Centralized Access
Lower cost-to-serve with remote troubleshooting and centralized management of OEM and integrator access.
Managing Multi-Vendor PLC Environments at Scale
Managing diverse programmable logic controller (PLC) systems from multiple vendors with insufficient tools for code management.
Reduced IT Footprint with Cloud-Based Engineering Environments
Reduce your IT footprint – Eliminate the burden of managing IDEs and local machines. With production sites moving closer to your customers and becoming smaller, local PLC setups are costly. A cloud‑based IDE keeps everything up‑to‑date without local overhead.
Software Defined Automation Customers
Streamlining F&B Changeovers with Software-Defined Automation
Software-defined automation streamlines recipe and packaging updates in food & beverage plants through validated change workflows and full audit trails, ensuring compliance and reducing recall risks.
Software Defined Automation helps Henkel increase productivity and improve collaboration
Success Stories
Software Defined Automation helps Henkel increase productivity and improve collaboration
Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses. The company’s portfolio includes adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings, as well as laundry and home care and hair products for consumers. Henkel implemented Software Defined Automation (SDA) to standardize management of their programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Today, they are more efficient and productive with SDA’s secure solution.
Clevertech integrates Software Defined Automation to offer scalable packaging solutions and improve machine efficiency
Clevertech SPA, a leader in packaging machinery innovation, has significantly enhanced its operations through the integration of Software Defined Automation's Industrial DevOps platform. This collaboration has enabled Clevertech to offer scalable packaging solutions, independent of proprietary PLC controllers, thereby improving machine efficiency throughout their lifecycle.
GRASS improves PLC management with Software Defined Automation Version Control
Furniture movement system manufacturer GRASS GmbH’s struggles to manage their PLC software code led to inefficiency, lost productivity, risk, and higher costs. Software Defined Automation (SDA) lets them quickly identify who changed what and when for any kind of industrial software running on their production machines.
Prevent Downtime With Intelligent Monitoring
Ever questioned your company’s production processes?
