Industries · Co-Packing
OEE for Co-Packing Prove Your Rates Without Touching Your Customer’s IT
Co-packers live and die on billable rates and short-run changeovers. ACI helps you prove performance job by job with a self-contained system that never touches your customer’s IT, using Vorne XL and OEE IntelliSuite.
Why this industry is different
The Losses That Cost Co-Packing Lines the Most
Co-packing lines don’t fail like continuous lines. The costliest losses are frequent changeovers between customer variants, labour efficiency you can’t defend at billing, and short-run setup costs that erode margin.
Frequent Changeovers Across Variants
Short-run job mixes force constant format and label changes. XL captures every changeover automatically, splits planned from unplanned, and gives you an SMED baseline per customer job.
The Rate You Bill vs the Rate You Ran
Contract billing depends on defensible run rates. Real-time PPM vs rated makes the actual performance auditable for both you and the brand owner.
Earned Labour vs Total Labour
Team-size decisions drive P&L. XL shows how team size affects downtime and OEE per job so line staffing gets set on evidence, not intuition.
Counts You Can Defend on Inventory You Don’t Own
Job- and part-level automatic counts tied to XL data end the count-argument at billing. No spreadsheet reconciliation, no disputed cases.
Short-Run Setup & First-Off Losses
Short runs concentrate the loss into setup. XL isolates first-off and start-up losses so they can be attacked separately from run-rate issues.
Prove Rates Without Touching Customer IT
XL is a fully self-contained system embedded in the device no servers, no domain integration, no impact on your customer’s IT. You get the data, they get the finished goods.
For every kind of co-packing operation
Food, Beverage, Personal Care & Consumer Goods
The specifics differ, but the discipline is the same. XL sees what your line is really doing; OEE IntelliSuite turns it into decisions your team can act on today.
Food & Beverage Co-Packing
- Multi-brand short runs
- Allergen changeovers
- Seasonal / promo packs
- See our F&B page →
Personal Care & Cosmetics
- Multi-SKU fill and pack
- Format and closure changes
- Kit-pack and multipack
- See our cosmetics page →
Promo, Display & Kitting
- Custom retail displays
- Short-lifetime SKUs
- Manual + semi-auto lines
- Labour-heavy configurations
Private Label & Contract
- Long relationships, multi-year
- Rate defence at billing
- Continuous improvement per line
- Brand-owner reporting
Trusted across the sector
Co-Packers Running the ACI Stack
A representative selection from short-run promotional packaging to long-term private-label contracts. Drop your customer logos into these slots.
Want to be on this wall? Start with a Performance Audit or a 45-day free trial on one line.
What ACI delivers
A Stack Built for Contract-Packaging Reality
Not just a scoreboard. A measurement layer, an operator workflow, an analytics layer, and hands-on coaching that respects the customer boundary.
- Vorne XL device on the line automatic run/stop, PPM vs rated, downtime reasons, changeover detection. Self-contained no customer IT touched.
- OEE IntelliSuite analytics jobs and SKUs, labour efficiency per job, alerts by email/SMS/Teams, and 40+ analytics views for rate defence and improvement.
- Optional integration with your systems ERP, MES, SQL, MQTT/OPC and Power BI on your infrastructure, not your customer’s.
- Hands-on ACI coaching on-site setup and training in Dutch, French or English, plus follow-up so daily habits hold across brand-owner audits.
What a good six months looks like
Measured Improvements Co-Packers Typically See
OEE gain in ten weeks on packaging
Labour cost with 31-day payback
OEE gain within six months
Brand-owner reports in minutes
Documented XL customer results in food service and contract packaging. Actual results depend on your starting point, lines and follow-through.
Questions
Co-Packing OEE Common Questions
How do we monitor lines without touching our customer’s IT?
XL embeds the whole monitoring system in the device. There is no software to install and no servers to run the data lives on the appliance and integrates only into your infrastructure. Your customer’s IT is completely unaffected.
Can we track performance per job and per brand-owner?
Yes. Jobs, SKUs and parts are first-class objects in OEE IntelliSuite. OEE, run rate, cases produced and labour efficiency are analysed per job and per SKU which is exactly the granularity brand-owner audits ask for.
Does it help us defend our billable rates?
Yes. Real-time PPM vs rated, plus time-stamped downtime reasons, mean the rate you billed is defensible. Rate disputes get resolved from data, not memory.
Can we prove the value before we commit?
Yes. We offer a 45-day free trial on one line and a Performance Audit that measures your hidden capacity first if you’d rather understand your losses before choosing any tool.
Can we integrate later with an ERP if we want to?
Yes. OEE IntelliSuite integrates with ERP (SAP, Oracle and others), MES, SQL, MQTT/OPC and Power BI on your side, not the customer’s. See the Integration Tools page for details.
Let’s Look at Your Co-Packing Line
Book a live demo or start with a 45-day free trial on one line and prove your rates before committing to anything else.