New flexibility through consistent digitalization

Digitalization in the food and beverage industry

Innovative products and solutions make you more competitive

Food and beverage manufacturers must consider many factors: a consistently high level of product quality, maximum plant availability, optimum resource efficiency – and, increasingly, the greatest possible flexibility in order to meet more and more individual customer requirements. Mastering all these challenges today and in the future is possible only with digitalization. With the Digital Enterprise solution portfolio, we offer the products and solutions you need to fully or gradually integrate and digitalize your entire value chain.

Breweries

Breweries need to expand their portfolios, and digitalization plays a key role in this process.

Sugar Industry

Digitalization enables sugar production under the most advanced quality and efficiency conditions.

Edible Oils Industry

Success and efficiency in the edible oil industry

Dairy Industry

Greater flexibility on the path to more individual products

Soft Drinks

Greater flexibility and productivity for the soft drink industry

Bakery products and confectionery

Digitalization can help to create consistent automation in the bakery industry.

Consumer packed goods

Thanks to digitalization and the comprehensive Digital Twin from Siemens, new approaches can be adopted in product recipe formulation as well as packaging design

Aquaculture goes digital

Comprehensive solution portfolio for the aquaculture industry that improves productivity and sustainability.

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Expertise for the food and beverage industry:

In our Exclusive Area, you have access to white papers, studies, and videos in which our experts share their specialized knowledge regarding digitalization and other trends in your industry.

 

 

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With a push of a button from strawberry juice to elderberry syrup:

Spitz digitizes plant in Attnang-Puchheim

 

• Siemens makes the production of the food manufacturer fit for the future and
   secures competitiveness of the traditional company
• Spitz is going to receive very accurate data and analyzes of the production
• Fruit juices and other foods can be more flexible, efficient and qualitative
   produced to a higher quality

Digitalization increases flexibility

Through various examples we show that both process and discrete workflows in the food and beverage industry can benefit from digitalization.

BrauBeviale 2019 highlights

Kai Schneiderwind shows you the latest trends and highlights - from Anomaly Detection and Integrated Manufacturing Options to the new version of BRAUMAT process controll system.

Trusted Traceability with MindSphere and the blockchain 

How can companies ensure complete traceability and quality assurance, from the origin of resources to their customers? The answer is called blockchain – a revolutionary technology that provides the security you need to build trust. Gain transparency and traceability with Siemens Blockchain running on MindSphere. Learn more at www.siemens.com/blockchain-fab

Siemens at BrauBeviale 2018

Siemens‘ Kai Schneiderwind presents news about digitalization and how to reach the next level of productivity.

Siemens at Hannover Fair 2018

How can Digital Twins help brewing beer of the highest grade?

Siemens at Anuga FoodTec 2018

The Digital Enterprise at the example of the bakery & confectionary industry.

Siemens at Drinktec 2017

Kai Schneiderwind demonstrates digital and integrated value chain for the beverage industry

Discover the value of Digital Enterprise

At Hannover Messe 2017, Siemens’ Kai Schneiderwind explains how digitalization helps the food and beverage industry to increase its flexibility.

Additional products and services

Support for your business

Along with the products and solutions tailored specifically to the requirements of the food and beverage industry, Siemens also offers additional products and services that help you get the most out of your company.
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Successful practical applications of our solutions

With the Digital Enterprise portfolio, we support companies of any size in the food and beverage industry. Here you’ll find some examples from practice.
Auf dem Oktoberfest überwacht die Paulaner Brauerei Temperatur, Füllstände und Kohlensäure-Gehalt des Biers mit Hilfe von MindSphere
Paulaner Brauerei
Germany

The first keg is tapped – and high-tech keeps it fresh

  • The loop line that supplies the Paulaner marquee at Oktoberfest Munich with beer relies on SIMATIC controllers and SCALANCE network components

  • Uploading all operational to the Cloud via MindSphere facilitates determining the correct refill amount

  • Information about volume, temperature, and pressure in the lines can be read on tablets, smartphones, and laptops via the “Performance Insight” app.

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Braumat at the research brewery of the Technical University of Munich
Research brewery of the TU Munich
Germany

Digital research brewery: Something is brewing here

  • Fully automated brewing process enables research of new types of beer in very small batches

  • Restructuring of the entire control system with BRAUMAT

  • Innovative visualization facilitates operation and increases understanding of the brewing process

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Infrabaker International
Germany

Automated infrared oven for sensitive food

  • Compact, mobile oven for gentle and automated defrosting of fish 

  • Tailor-made implementation with automation components from Siemens

  • Time-saving engineering in TIA Portal

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Brogan’s Way
Australia

Quality, consistency, and scalability for craft gin distillery

  • Comprehensive, modular automation solution for production process regulation, automation, and control

  • Automation of a Deacam Fermecraft system based on SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC and SINAMICS G120 drives

  • Solution helps ensure quality and consistency and provides small manufacturers with a degree of scalability previously only available for much larger businesses

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Landwirtschaftsbetrieb Thiermann
Germany

Industrial controllers enable irrigation of blueberries

  • Frost protection through irrigation of a 250 hectare blueberry plantation

  • Automated control of 34 pump stations with SIMATIC and LOGO! components

  • Wireless monitoring and control via smartphone

Chocolat Frey
Switzerland

Individualized chocolate via Twitter

  • Smart order picking system with the cloud-based, open IoT operating system MindSphere

  • Programming of robot controls with TIA Portal libraries

  • Cooperation between Siemens, Chocolat Frey and the technical college northern Switzerland

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Advancing digitalization needs comprehensive security

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