Page 30 - Food&Drink August 2022 magazine

MEAT, FISH & POULTRY SPOTLIGHT
Smarten up your factory
For meat processors, the digital transformation that is in full swing offers a suite of advantages when it comes to greater transparency, improved standardised product quality, and reduced costs, and greater automation. CSB-System technologies have been at the forefront of enhanced digitisation and automation of factory processes for meat factories globally.
THE Smart Factory has
many advantages: flexibility, full transparency, individualisation, and maximum efficiency. This helps to increase productivity and reduce costs. The Smart Factory is not a mere vision. With CSB’s technologies, you utilise today the benefits of digitisation and make your enterprise fit for the future, from smart management to the smart supply chain and, particularly, smart production, and to the smart IT landscape.
WHAT’S GOING ON, ANYTIME, EVERYWHERE Having a clear view of strengths and weaknesses in the value chain is the key to successful corporate control. Here, it is important to measure the performance with precise figures and to increase it systematically, for example by optimising production.
Using CSB Web Apps allows employees to access the CSB-System when they are on the move. Key data and reports can be accessed on a notebook, tablet, or mobile phone to get a clear overview.
MANAGE COMPLEXITY, CUT COSTS
In the meat industry, the focus of production planning and control is on unit diversity, freshness, and throughput speed. Mastering bottlenecks, availability and value of resources is vital.
The CSB Production Planning and Control system handles this complex task. Anticipatory planning over various horizons, such as short-, mid-, and long-term planning, provide an overview of all volumes to be
produced as well as the capacity utilisation of business departments and machines.
Throughput times are accelerated while inventory stocks are reduced. Consequently, you reduce production costs substantially, and you can schedule and fulfil even short-term orders in a flexible manner.
Good inventory decisions require reliable forecasting and requirement planning. Whether daily sales forecasts or anticipatory planning of future requirements, CSB’s scenario planning supplies well-founded forecasts and provides automatic suggestions so you can reliably plan on what is coming next.
ABOVE: Digital transformation is in full swing.
LEFT: Master bottlenecks and resources with production planning and control systems.
OPTIMAL CONTROL
CSB Linecontrol provides
all data on the current capacity utilisation and performance of your machines in real time – directly at the line, but also on the screen of production management.
Bottlenecks and malfunctions in the production and packaging lines are visualised immediately. This allows for quick and systematic troubleshooting. Unplanned downtimes are reduced, keeping the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on a constantly high level.
Web based systems allow access and monitoring from anywhere.
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