Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for the food and beverage industry Benefits Summary • Identify and fix bottlenecks Seasonal demands, high product turnover, high flexibility for new products • Develop optimal cleaning and multi-variety packs, as well as quality and freshness are among the chal- strategies lenges in engineering for food and beverage production plans. With highly • Define quantified measures automated sophisticated technologies and expensive equipment, it is particu- to optimize output up to larly important to ensure that manufacturing processes meet current and 30 percent future needs. • Invest in the right equipment • Determine feasible and robust production plans • Secure product quality by a stable and harmonized production flow • Minimize discarded material To manage these challenges, simulation is the tool to implement fully vali- dated new processes that are “right the first time.” Using simulation, you can determine the most cost effective and future-proof planning solution. Alter- nate planning scenarios can be compared to select the best balance between performance, flexibility and investment. By using simulation, it is easy to identify bottlenecks and to plan the best strategy for increasing plant output. TECNOMATIX Answers for industry. TECNOMATIX Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for the food and beverage industry Simulation of food and beverage produc- The iSILOG solution breaks down the bor- mated and reproducible production flow. tion processes helps you answer the fol- ders between continuous batch processing For example, the WIP level in the tanks will lowing questions: and discrete production processes com- decrease depending on the production of • What are the existing bottlenecks at mon in food and beverage production. It the connected filling line. The animation the plant? covers special functions such as cleaning, allows you to follow the material flow and • What are best strategies (e.g. cleaning, batch- and recipe-management. It makes it to observe tank levels, orders, equipment changeovers, batch sizes, production possible for you to model the complete status and enhanced statistics like tank planning and control) to increase flow, from incoming goods over batch pro- levels over time or Gantt charts for all output? cessing in tanks and special equipment, equipment with detailed order informa- • What are the existing limits of the plant filling, packing and palletizing up to stor- tion. Simulation serves as communication regarding expected future products ing the finished goods in a warehouse. platform for all parties on existing or and demands? Plant Simulation provides interfaces to planned manufacturing system behavior. • What is the best approach for Excel, XML, data bases, etc. to integrate harmonizing customer demands, the simulation into an existing software Use cases incoming goods, batch sizes and environment. Plant Simulation can even Using this solution, one manufacturer was packaging lines? help you cover the complete lifecycle of able to reduce by one the number of tanks food and beverage production plants. required, reducing their investment by In complex systems with large interdepen- From designing the manufacturing plant, 400,000 Euros. Other companies have dencies such as in food production plants, through virtual commissioning of produc- tracked such improvement as: it is nearly impossible to manually esti- tion control to the solution helps you • The ability to improve service reliability mate how the system will perform. That is advance online production planning and and due data quality from 85 to why simulation is an essential planning scheduling application. 100 percent without any additional solution for a successful future. investment This food and beverage solution can be • A 70 percent reduction in onsite iSILOG has developed an additional solu- applied in all areas of food production for commissioning tion for the food and beverage industry products such as: • Reduced energy consumption by more based on Tecnomatix Plant Simulation • Brewing, soft drinks and milk processing than 5 percent, leading to reduced costs from Siemens PLM Software. The solution • Fresh and frozen food and higher profitability includes industry-specific objects such as • Instant soup tanks, mixers, pipes, grinder, filling sta- • Snacks and candy Solution specific objects: tions, packing, palletizing and storage. • Animal food • Tank Using these standard objects makes it easy • Agricultural raw materials • Mixer for you to model an existing or planned • Pipes production process in the food and bever- A model based on the food and beverage • Grinder age industry. solution can vary from a single production • Filling station line to a complete plant including raw • Packing material intake and final product storage. • Palletizing The simulation model compasses an ani- • Storage © 2012 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Contact Inc. All rights reserved. Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. 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