FELTEN supports manufacturing companies in the cosmetics industry in complying with legal regulations and constantly increasing market requirements, while at the same time increasing their efficiency, flexibility and quality in production.
Challenges in the cosmetics industry
- Market changes: The cosmetics industry must adapt to ever-changing changes in technology, regulations and consumer trends. Companies must therefore act flexibly and quickly to remain competitive.
- Cost pressure: Another major challenge is the rising cost of raw materials and packaging in production processes. Manufacturers are required to optimize their processes and make the value chain more efficient to reduce waste.
- Legal requirements: Cosmetic products are subject to extensive regulations to ensure that they can be brought to market safely and without risk to consumers.
- Quality requirements: The production of cosmetics is subject to the highest hygiene and quality standards, such as the guidelines of Good Manufacturing Practice (Cosmetics GMP).
- Traceability: Complete traceability also presents cosmetics manufacturers with major challenges in times of complex formulations, supply chain problems and rapidly changing customer requirements.
- Time-to-Market: Like in many other industries, there is significant competitive and cost pressure in the cosmetics industry. Short product launch times are crucial for responding to changes quickly and tapping into new markets.
- Transparency: Shortages and inefficient processes can be identified too late due to a lack of transparency, leading to disruptions in production processes. Digital transparency maps production steps from A to Z in real-time, enabling optimization of processes, materials, and personnel deployment.
These and other conditions necessitate ensuring efficient, flexible, and customer-oriented production.
How our MES solution supports you
As a competence leader, FELTEN with HYDRA X:Cosmetics offers an innovative MES solution for production management. With its forward-looking technological approach, it sets new standards in terms of performance quality and cost-effectiveness.
The HYDRA X:Cosmetics industry solution considers all requirements of the cosmetics industry necessary for economically efficient production. This includes compliance with cosmetic GMP requirements, structured management of manufacturing instructions, seamless tracking & tracing, and complete electronic documentation (EBR) of all process steps with batch documentation.
Your benefits with HYDRA X:Cosmetics
- Sustainable reduction of production costs while simultaneously increasing productivity and quality.
- With an MES, you can achieve perfect interaction between cosmetics production and the packaging process - individually adapted to your requirements.
- Batch traceability
- Compliance requirements are met according to GMP and cosmetic regulations.
- Flexible process models allow for rapid adaptation to changing market conditions.
- Our extensive experience from numerous successful industry projects ensures quick implementation.
- Data transparency and continuous optimization (continuous improvement process)
- Overview of key metrics within production - for increased transparency
- Higher delivery reliability through systematically controlled processes and feedback
- Easy integration into existing ERP systems - for example SAP.
HYDRA X:Cosmetics – Overview of the most important features
- Detailed monitoring of systems and intermediate containers, downtimes, cleaning intervals, primary and secondary products
- Checking employee qualifications for the execution of manufacturing processes
- Support for critical control points in the process
- Management of storage locations to ensure compliance with storage guidelines for kosher / halal products
- Documentation of the process steps from goods receipt, storage, production, packaging to goods issue
- Recipe-side mapping of process parameters (target and actual values)
- Recording of process and environmental data for individual products and batches
- Material, system and order-related process parameters and controls
- Early intervention in the quality process through real-time data of quality values