Industries · Food & Beverage
OEE for Food & Beverage Protect Throughput, Yield & Compliance
Fast changeovers, strict food-safety rules and thin margins make F&B one of the toughest environments to hold OEE. ACI helps European food and beverage plants see every minute of lost time, cut waste on primary and packaging lines, and prove the results using Vorne XL and OEE IntelliSuite.
Why this industry is different
The Losses That Cost Food & Beverage Lines the Most
F&B lines don’t fail like discrete lines. The costliest losses go unlogged: short stops, slow filler headers, and sanitation windows that quietly widen. This is where XL and OEE IntelliSuite pay back fastest.
Format & Recipe Switches
Frequent SKU, format and recipe changes eat into throughput. XL captures every changeover automatically, splits planned from unplanned, and flags where the target changeover time is being missed.
Washdown Windows That Widen
Sanitation and allergen-wash events erode production time when nobody is measuring them. Treating washdown as a tracked state surfaces the hours you are losing every week.
Fillers & Packers Running Below Rate
Micro-stops and speed losses on fillers, cappers and case packers are invisible in daily averages but add up fast over a shift. Real-time speed vs rated means operators react immediately.
Giveaway, Rejects & Rework
Overfill, underweight and reject patterns tied to shift, reason code and SKU not buried in end-of-month totals. Root cause becomes obvious and giveaway drops.
Line Startup & Shutdown Losses
Warm-up, CIP and cool-down cycles hide serious lost capacity. XL captures them as their own states so you can attack them without a manual accounting exercise.
Audits That Should Take Minutes
Every batch, every downtime reason, every operator interaction time-stamped and queryable so recalls, HACCP reviews and audits stop being fire drills.
For every kind of F&B line
Dairy, Bakery, Beverage, Meat and Everything In Between
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.
Dairy & Chilled
- Fillers, cappers, palletisers
- Weight and fill-level rejects
- CIP and changeover time
- Cold-chain traceability
Beverage & Bottling
- High-speed filling lines
- Format and closure changes
- Line-balance across fillers/packers
- Case-pack integrity
Meat & Protein
- Cutting, portioning, packing
- Yield and giveaway control
- Allergen and recipe changeovers
- HACCP-driven traceability
Bakery & Snacks
- Continuous ovens and proofers
- Recipe and allergen switches
- Weight and bake-quality rejects
- Wrapping line speed
Trusted across the sector
F&B Plants Running the ACI Stack
A representative selection from primary processing to high-speed packaging. 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 F&B Reality
Not just a scoreboard. A measurement layer, an operator workflow, an analytics layer, and the hands-on coaching to make sure your team uses it every shift.
- Vorne XL device on the line automatic run/stop, speed vs rated, downtime reasons, changeover and washdown detection — all live on a floor-facing scoreboard.
- OEE IntelliSuite analytics jobs and schedules, operator context, alerts by email/SMS/Teams, and 40+ analytics visualisations tuned for high-speed food and beverage lines.
- Integration with your systems ERP (SAP, Oracle), MES, SQL, MQTT/OPC and Power BI. Master data flows in; production truth flows out.
- Hands-on ACI coaching on-site setup and training in Dutch, French or English, plus follow-up so the daily habits hold through your busiest season.
What a good six months looks like
Measured Improvements F&B Plants Typically See
OEE lift when one focus metric is set per month
OEE gain in ten weeks on filling and packaging
Annual production recovered in three weeks
Traceability queries answered in minutes, not days
Documented XL customer results in food and beverage environments. Actual results depend on your starting point, lines and follow-through.
Questions
Food & Beverage OEE Common Questions
Does XL cope with washdown and sanitation environments?
Yes. XL devices are designed for industrial environments, and installation is planned around your washdown routine. Cabling and mounting keep the device out of the wet zone while the sensors sit where the events happen.
Can we track allergen and format changeovers as measured events?
Yes. Changeovers whether recipe, format or allergen are auto-detected by XL and split into planned vs unplanned in OEE IntelliSuite, with reason codes tied to your quality categories.
How does this help with traceability audits?
Every batch, every downtime reason and every operator interaction is time-stamped and queryable. Audits and HACCP reviews stop being fire drills because the data is already there, filterable by line, product, lot or shift.
Do you integrate with our ERP and MES?
Yes. OEE IntelliSuite integrates with ERP (SAP, Oracle and others), MES, SQL, MQTT/OPC and Power BI. See the Integration Tools page for details.
Can we prove the value before we commit?
Yes. We offer a 45-day free trial on one line — often the highest-throughput packaging line — and a Performance Audit that measures your hidden capacity in about a week.
Let’s Look at Your Food & Beverage Line
Book a live demo with an XL scoreboard mocked on your product mix or start with a 45-day free trial and prove the value before you buy anything.