The food and beverage industry faces a major challenge amid ‘race’ 4.0

Ensuring continuity and quality of finished products throughout the production process while optimizing operations has become a challenge for businesses in the food and beverage (F&B) industry.
The top three challenges of F&B businesses

Power supply disruption is one of the major risks F&B businesses often face. These incidents, whether objective or subjective, lead to certain delays in the production chain, affecting quality, reducing productivity, and wasting resources and materials.

We easily see the basic process of a plant F & B began a closed process, seamless and depends very much on the power source used:

1. Sewing sorting (picking):  Increase the application itself Plant automation requires ensuring that the power supply operates stably for the control equipment. This is a necessary requirement to help businesses reduce waste and increase productivity.

2. Mixing (mixing): It requires precise control to ensure uniformity in output quality and in particular, mixers are often arranged in different directions, directions and speed of rotation leading to an inadequate power supply, affects sensor devices using the same power source.

3. Sterilization process:  The temperature at this stage needs to be precisely controlled to each degree and depends on the constant stability of the energy source to perform sterilization, cooking or heating operations. . Any energy failure can affect the entire production process.

4. Finished product packaging process: The automatic conveyor system always needs stable speed and accuracy, so only a small change in the current can affect the control sensors, resulting in physical impact of the product and cause downtime for the entire system.

The second challenge for the F&B industry is to control temperature: Food must be processed and stored within the right temperature range. A single heat fluctuation can create a chain reaction, causing costs, food safety risks, health safety effects for workers or productivity.

In addition, the explosion of the 4.0 revolution has also promoted many inevitable trends to develop more trustworthy and efficiently. With smart factories, it is the convergence trend of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology) to help manage and synthesize information during operation and standardize production processes through cloud or physical server system located at the factory.

Comprehensive solutions from Schneider Electric

With extensive experience and optimal technology, Schneider Electric owns comprehensive solutions to help F&B businesses build production chains and related components to operate efficiently, smart and safe.

To ensure plant operation with a stable and uninterrupted power source, Schneider Electric offers a series of Galaxy V-Series 3-phase UPSs for production systems with energy needs ranging from 10 KW for up to 4MW.

This product line is integrated with the latest technologies such as E-conversion or 4-level inverters patented by Schneider, helping to maintain stability and near perfect power quality (up to 99%). compared with a standard dual converter converter. With this efficiency, businesses can save energy consumption, reduce your environmental impact and significantly reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).

In parallel, to meet the smart factory’s core IT-OT convergence needs, Schneider Electric deployed the EcoStruxure IT platform with a focus on fully integrated Micro Data Centers. Edge computing environments include rack, UPS, power distribution bar, cooling system, sensors, management software. The second focus is EcoStruxure IT Expert, or next-generation data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution running on the cloud platform. This solution simplifies distributed IT infrastructure management to enable remote infrastructure monitoring, optimize operations, and increase operational efficiency based on real-time analytics and decision-making. smart proposal.

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