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Food and Beverage Automation

Leverage the power of advanced automation and information to elevate your business
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Food & Beverage
    • Dairy
    • Dairy
    • Bakery
    • Bakery
    • Beverage
    • Beverage
    • Brewery
    • Brewery
    • Prepared Foods
    • Prepared Foods
    • Protein Processing
    • Protein Processing
    • Energy Management
    • Energy Management
    • Food Packaging
    • Food Packaging
    • Food Safety
    • Food Safety
    • Operational Excellence
    • Operational Excellence
    • Agility and Analytics
    • Agility and Analytics
    • Batch Performance Analytics
    • Batch Performance Analytics
    • Perfect Fill
    • Perfect Fill
  • Sustainability
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Smart Food and Beverage Manufacturing Solutions for Your Operations

Consumers continually seek the new and different — prioritizing taste, nutritional value, variety, and sustainability. For manufacturers, this dynamic creates the pressure to meet evolving consumer demand while navigating high material costs, workforce challenges, and increased operational risks. We help manufacturers develop a connected, agile response to consumer and market variability. From upgrading legacy systems to enabling autonomous operations, we support your transformation journey to become more flexible, data-driven, and growth oriented.  

A key pillar of our approach is strategic partnerships that enable us to expand value by leveraging best-in-class complementary technologies. By understanding your production needs and unique positioning, we help you reach key business goals:

  • Reduce operational complexity
  • Improve yield and throughput
  • Mitigate security risks
  • Drive production efficiency

Accelerate your digital transformation journey by taking the steps to become a more agile, integrated enterprise today. To see our full suite of smart manufacturing solutions, explore our Food and Beverage Interactive.

Food and Beverage Interactive
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Food and Beverage Interactive

Explore our full suite of food and beverage automation solutions. 

The Food and Beverage Industry is Continuously Transforming

86%
of food and beverage manufacturers are using or evaluating smart manufacturing technology
40%
of collected manufacturing data is being used effectively, according to CPG leaders

Drive Agility in a Changing Market

In the food and beverage industry, digital transformation is central to operational agility. Aging equipment can severely limit your productivity and competitiveness, and using disparate systems can amplify risk. From rising maintenance costs to component obsolescence and increased cyber threats, the cost of delaying modernization is high.

Realize the benefits of modernization:

  • Enable optimization and digitalization solutions
  • Access advanced analytics through integrated systems
  • Decrease the risk of downtime and project delays 
  • Strengthen employee safety and cybersecurity 
  • Reduce workforce challenges of maintaining aging infrastructure 
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Optimize Production to Improve Yield

Disparate systems hinder visibility across networks and production lines, making it difficult to form pathways to optimization. When companies connect their systems, they gain the visibility and real-time information necessary to make data-informed decisions. This capability enables true optimization at every step of the production lifecycle.

Explore data-enabled pathways toward optimization:

  • Connect siloed data across operations
  • Enhance product quality and reduce waste
  • Leverage the value of flexible, DataReady™ Machines
  • Harness the capabilities of AI-driven solutions
CPG Yield Optimization eBook
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CPG Yield Optimization eBook

Discover a new approach to yield that contextualizes data and unlocks pathways to yield improvement across your entire organization.

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Rockwell Automation works with 100% of global Fortune 500 CPG companies

Rockwell Automation is a trusted partner in digital transformation. We solve next-generation challenges and drive accelerated time-to-value through the breadth of our portfolio and ecosystem, industry-specific domain expertise, and premier integration. See how we’ve helped businesses like yours.

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Industry Challenges

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Maintain Food Safety

Proactively manage product safety and quality in your operations and supply chain

Food Safety Solutions
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Gain Efficiencies

Gain operational efficiencies, improve productivity, and yield

Operational Excellence
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Improve Packaging

Automate packaging, case packing, and palletizing

Food Packaging Automation
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Reduce Energy Costs

Improve industrial energy efficiency for increased productivity and profitability

Energy Management
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Achieve the Perfect Fill

Discover digital solutions for consistent and accurate product filling

Perfect Fill

Deliver Value With Industry-Specific Expertise

Bakery
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Bakery automation provides close monitoring and control of operations, processes and costs, improves effectiveness, and reduces product variability.

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Beverage
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Investment in advanced beverage manufacturing automation and control systems can help you to do more with less, move your business forward, and help you meet demand.

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Brewery
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Automated brewery software and solutions are designed to reduce the time you spend managing equipment and processes so you can focus on the art of crafting beer.

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Dairy
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Our automated dairy systems can help you better deliver a diverse mix of consistently high-quality, safely produced products.

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Prepared Foods
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We offer automation and control solutions for prepared foods manufacturers.

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Protein Processing
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Protein is the cornerstone in all diets and demand is growing. Automation helps workforce productivity delivering consistent, high-quality, fresh protein.

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How Automation Works in the Food and Beverage Industry

What is Food and Beverage Automation?
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Food and beverage automation refers to the automating of various processes throughout the food and beverage manufacturing industry. Food and beverage manufacturing is a complex industry. Producers must stay on top of inventory, packaging updates, price changes, and supply chain management while also ensuring compliance with industry regulations for safety, environmental standards, and statutory requirements.

Automation in the food industry enables F&B manufacturers to optimize product throughput, meet fluctuating demands, and reduce inventory waste, all while remaining compliant with regulatory requirements.

Benefits of Food and Beverage Automation
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Given the complexity of the food manufacturing industry, food and beverage automation comes with a wide range of benefits, empowering producers to stay on top of their ever-changing processes. Some of the biggest benefits of food and beverage automation include:

Quality Management – food manufacturing automation solutions help producers ensure the quality of their products with full traceability of ingredients across the entire manufacturing process.

Production Control – F&B automation solutions empower producers to stay on top of any date-controlled inventory, adjusting ingredient ordering to reflect product demand. This ensures fewer ingredients are wasted when demand drops.

Compliance and Safety – automation enables producers to perform quality checks more often and with greater efficiency, ensuring all compliance and safety regulations are being met.

Types of Food and Beverage Automation
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Automation in the food industry covers a wide range of processes, from automating tasks within internal systems like supply chain management and enterprise resource planning to automated production and packaging. Some common food and beverage automation solutions include:

  • Food packaging
  • Sorting systems
  • Quality control inspection systems
  • Picking and placing systems
  • Food assembly
  • Cooking and preparation

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