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Each time a conveyor belt halts down, or a commercial chiller shuts down, your facility's profit takes a direct blow. In food and beverages production, machines are important. They deliver quality products, achieve production levels, and have high safety measures. Delaying equipment is a disaster. Failure to meet expectations results in spoilt batches, missing deliveries, and health hazards, and your crew is stuck in a loop of firefighting.
These problems will need a shift towards a more implemented, data-driven strategy. A highly definite breakthrough is the introduction of special food and beverages maintenance software, i.e. efficient Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). CMMS transforms unexpected failures into effective productivity. It automates maintenance schedules, real-time tracking of equipment, and provides technicians with digital work orders on the factory floor.
Food processing machinery must keep up with tight production schedules while passing strict hygiene and FSSAI checks. By using dedicated food and beverage maintenance software, you get a clear online system to easily manage the complex lifecycle of your equipment.
Using equipment until it breaks down, then repairing it, is an expensive and unsafe method. The break-fix cycle poses colossal operational problems on the floor of the plant:
To prevent the state of being reactive, facilities need to entirely alter the manner of their approach to equipment care.
This shift relies on:
The introduction of such a system as Cryotos essentially transforms the everyday activities by digitizing key processes.
The friction of logging and distributing maintenance work is completely removed. Create work orders both with voice command and by posting annotated photos of equipment malfunctions. Allow any floor operator to scan a QR code and immediately record a service request as soon as he or she notices a problem. Keep track of the progress in real-time with instant notifications on mobile, email, or WhatsApp.
Have complete visibility of equipment location and performance. Employ GPS, BEACON, and NFC technology to have real-time visibility of assets. Scan asset QR code on physical equipment to get instant access to specifications, maintenance history, and warranty information. Have a complete maintenance process with custom checklists that can be imported easily using Excel or OCR technology.
Maintenance is no longer based on the calendar. Preventive work triggered by accurate utilization of such measures as machine hours, throughput, or elapsed time. Drag-and-drop calendar features enable drag and drop rescheduling and route changes. Make sure to have thorough maintenance executed with personalized checklists being imported through either the use of Excel or the use of OCR technology.
Lack of an important spare part when a breakdown occurs wastes time. Break down the map warehouse all the way down to aisle, shelf, and bin. Get automatic notifications once the stock is lower than the minimum to avoid a stockout. Track end-of-life products and accurately monitor the exact parts technicians consume during repair operations
When converting to a specialized CMMS to do food and beverage maintenance, some of the most quantifiable advantages will be realized in your overall facility
Live monitoring and special downtime applications assist in the identification of common failure reasons, which decreases overall equipment non-availability by 30 percent.
Providing mobile and offline access via equipment manuals and history logs directly on the machine will save the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) by an average of 25.
Alerts of low stock and precise mapping of warehouses will mean the parts that are most needed are always available avoiding the expensive error of out of stock.
The usage-based preventive maintenance routines should also replace the paper calendars to avoid wear and tear of the machines in the long term due to poor maintenance.
Automation of Permit to Work and Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) systems provide a dependable electronic audit trail, and it is very simple to comply with tough industry requirements.
The second stage of industrial activities bridges the gap between virtual and real worlds via intelligent integrations.
IoT Integration: Connect sensors, PLCs, and SCADA systems directly to your CMMS to monitor equipment conditions in real-time. There can be automatic alerts to equipment for abnormal changes in temperature, pressure, or vibration. Facilitates accurate intervention on conditions before a catastrophic failure occurs.
ERP Synchronization: Intensive connection with enterprise solutions such as SAP and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Make the flow of real-time financial and operational data smooth. Efforts in automating cross-departmental workflows by eliminating manual data entry and improving security.
Food and beverage plants that want to remain profitable, and in full compliance with their requirements, are obligated to improve maintenance of the facility.
There is a need to abandon the reactive mode of firefighting in favor of a proactive response. Introducing a dedicated CMMS such as Cryotos will provide your employees the data clarity, automatic scheduling, and mobile access that will help them to solve the challenges of their daily operations.
Digitizing such essential workflows will provide your technicians with the right tools to ensure continuous production. This makes your facility competitive, safe and always productive
Move your F&B maintenance from breakdown to breakthrough schedule your Cryotos demo today.
