Power matters: Maximum flexibility and productivity for the food and beverage industry

Totally Integrated Power enables increasing competitiveness

Like most markets, the food and beverage industry experiences an ongoing transformation that leads to increasing competition, fragmentation, and complexity. Digitalization plays an important part in order to gain a competitive edge, and so does electrification. Based on a reliable, safe, and efficient power supply and energy monitoring, companies in the food and beverage industry achieve new levels of speed, flexibility, and productivity.

TIP for the food and beverage industry

Totally Integrated Power for a reliable and flexible operation

Today, the food and beverage industry is facing many challenges – such as high cost sensitivity, the demand for a consistently high level of product quality and, increasingly, the need for the greatest possible flexibility in order to meet more and more individual customer requirements. Additionally, eco transparency and CO2 targets move into focus.

Solutions that meet the challenges of today and tomorrow

Siemens’ Totally Integrated Power (TIP) is tailored to the needs of food and beverage manufacturers and helps them to stay ahead of the competition over the long term by minimizing downtime and maximizing energy efficiency, while simultaneously ensuring power quality and flexibility. We take all areas of production into account, and systems can be adapted and expanded.

Our answer: Totally Integrated Power

Specific solutions for the food and beverage industry

Ready for the future

In a highly competitive market such as food and beverage, the main focus of the companies is on recipes, workflow optimization, productivity increases and similar tasks. Power supply is not their main priority, however it is essential for their business. Because power matters, TIP offers a manifold of benefits that support the food and beverage industry specifically.

Adapt to required capacities

The food and beverage industry is a highly competitive business characterized by a short time-to-market, short-lived trends,  and a high degree of customization.

Reducing time-to-market

Time is an important factor in the food and beverage industry. To be able to stay ahead of the competitors, changes in the production process as well as in the portfolio range need to be implemented quickly while ensuring a constantly high product quality.

Reduce environmental impact

The need for environmental protection, the reduction of CO2 emissions as well as water and waste output reduction are some of the sustainability goals that food and beverage manufacturers have to meet to be a green pioneer or to fulfill the governmental regulations.

Achieving a reliable power supply

In emerging countries there often is high uncertainty about grid reliability. Additionally the power quality is fluctuating, thus making production processes in the food and beverage industry difficult.

Increasing competitiveness through digitalization

Individual customer demands are becoming an increasing priority in the food and beverage industry. To meet these requirements, collecting data from operations is gaining more and more importance. Smart solutions for IT/OT convergence are key technology enablers for enhancing business operations as they offer transparency about the costs, the processes and the plant availability. 

Our TIP offerings in depth

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Successful use of TIP in the food and beverage industry

The integrated power supply solution TIP is being used in many sectors of the food and beverage industry, as the following example shows.

Siemens boosts energy efficiency of Turkish sugar factory

Amasya Sugar A.Ş, | Suluova, Turkey   The Turkish sugar producer Amasya Sugar (Amasya Şeker Fabrikası A.Ş.) is replacing its old power supply solution from Siemens with new Siemens systems and components. Based on the SIMARIS planning tool the power distribution system comprises 100 SIVACON S8 low-voltage switchgear panels, 100 communication-enabled 3VA molded case circuit breakers as well as 22 7KM PAC4200 and 7KM PAC3100 measuring devices. The energy monitoring software powermanager collects and analyzes the data from the measuring devices. This results in a more energy-efficient operation and improved availability of the plant.