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, 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.
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.
Learning to see
The industrial image processing technologies of CSB Vision grade and sort raw materials and products regarding their quality, allowing for ideal supply to production entirely in line with Industry 4.0, fully automatically and without any need for human intervention.
While tests performed by humans are prone to errors, the fully automatic analysis and assessment methods guarantee constant and objective quality measurements.
This reduces error rates and costs, enhances quality, and increases the added value.
Smart, Efficient, Integrated
From intelligent material flow control to flexible, fully automatic order picking and control of high-bay warehouses and batching systems: the tried and tested solutions for consistent system integration and unlimited mobility ensure seamless data acquisition directly at the point of origin.
The information and control technology, which is precisely tailored to your needs, ensures transparent and resource optimised processes.
Combined with state-of-the-art automation technology, this results in efficiency advantages that create the decisive competitive edge for your company.
The heart of the Smart Factory
The CSB FACTORY ERP software is an industry-specific system for optimum operational control of your factories.
CSB FACTORY ERP consistently represents the entire primary value creation of production and logistics in food and beverages, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics industries.
You can easily identify weak points at your factories, enhance the responsiveness on site and substantially reduce the overall costs.
The award-winning software has been commended for its comprehensive range of functionalities.
This story first appeared in the August issue of Food & Drink Business magazine.
