Food and Beverage

Driving Performance Excellence for Food and Beverage Companies

A major challenge for food and beverage manufacturers is keeping up with changing consumer preferences while staying cost competitive. Balancing efficient high-volume production with innovation and new product development while maintaining strict quality tolerances requires very different capabilities within the organization. Implementation Engineers works with Food & Beverage companies to identify operational cost optimization opportunities and reduce waste to compress new product development cycles. We partner with clients that aspire to be more cost competitive, to be more responsive to market trends, and to utilize existing assets (e.g., SMED), including human capital, more productively.

Implementation Engineers partners with Food & Beverage companies across the organization to implement critical solutions, such as:

• Asset Performance Excellence is a systems approach to improving asset reliability, resulting in improved plant uptime and unit cost reduction. Implementation Engineers works with Food & Beverage companies to improve asset management strategies and execution by deploying a holistic methodology that includes elements such as operator practices, maintenance planning and execution, and organizational leadership effectiveness.
• Food & Beverage companies must perform to rigorous quality management standards. Failure to sustain this performance can result in customer crises, damaged relationships and lost revenue. Implementation Engineers implements holistic Quality Management Systems (QMS) and partners with clients to obtain and keep the necessary quality certifications.

Dynamic Solutions Address Industry Challenges

Implementation Engineers partners with companies to address complex business challenges and transform your Performance Excellence capability into a competitive advantage. Some of the industry challenges we solve include:

• Asset Performance Excellence (Core Maintenance and Reliability Systems)
• High Performance Management Systems
• Lean facility layout
• Cost per unit reduction
• Process Yield – Scrap/Raw Material Loss
• Lean Six Sigma Training