FELTEN supports manufacturing companies in the food industry, which have to face ever-increasing market requirements and numerous legal regulations. The FELTEN solution can help enhance product quality and boost innovative power and productivity.
Challenges in the food industry
- Competitive pressure: Existing suppliers are expanding their product range, new competitors are entering the market.
- Innovation pressure: The food industry is constantly challenged to develop new products. The market is driven by changing nutritional trends such as vegan or vegetarian diets, gluten- and lactose-free products, the demand for high-protein food, or organic quality.
- Legal regulations: These regulations influence recipes by limiting salt or sugar content, prohibiting additives, or asking for nutrition labels. These are just a few examples of the numerous requirements that entail recipe adjustments.
- Traceability: Complete traceability is a real challenge for food producers in times of complex recipes, supply chain problems, and rapidly changing customer requirements.
- Scarcity in raw materials: Raw materials are not consistently available, in some cases due to seasonal availability, or the flavor intensity is changing depending on the origin of raw materials — hence continuous recipe adjustments are necessary.
- Market requirements: Recipes need to be frequently changed and must fulfill numerous requirements depending on the customers' demands. This causes higher costs for setup and cleaning. A detailed planning of processes and the optimization of order sequences with the help of digital tools might be useful.
- Packaging: Customer and legal requirements or the availability of packaging material place high demands on packaging.
- Pressure on the price: The food market is subject to an immense pressure on the price. End customers and retailers are very price-sensitive.
These are the reasons why it is necessary to ensure an efficient and flexible production and to cater to the customers' needs.
How our MES solution supports you
HYDRA X:Food from FELTEN is a future-oriented, industry-specific MES solution. FELTEN is familiar with the manufacturing processes specific to the food and beverage industry and its regulatory requirements.
HYDRA X:Food supports companies in collecting and evaluating production data in real time and correlates this data intelligently. At the same time, the solution helps to eliminate paper waste in food production. This opens up completely new opportunities for food manufacturers who can produce cost-efficiently and even control their increasingly complex manufacturing processes in a flexible and individual way.
Your benefits with HYDRA X:Food
- Reduce production costs in the long term and increase productivity and quality at the same time
- Perfect interlocking of processes from food production to packaging according to the manufacturer's needs
- Support for batch tracing in compliance with EU regulation 178/2002 and IFS
- Support of the HACCP concept
- Rapidly react to changed market conditions thanks to flexible process models
- Fast implementation as a result of long-standing experience and numerous successful industry projects
- Data transparency and continuous improvement (CIP)
- Overview of the most important production KPIs — for more transparency
- Increase on-time delivery through systematically controlled processes and feedback
- Simple integration with existing ERP systems such as SAP