Food Safety Case Studies

1. Clean-In-Place (CIP) Recovery With Efficient Filtration 9/26/2023

   With the goal of lowering CIP process costs, a dairy producer and processor collaborated with Pall to implement a microfiltration solution, ultimately reducing operating costs and environmental footprint.

2. Hillshire Brands Uses Manufacturing Intelligence 5/1/2023

   Explore solutions utilized by the Jimmy Dean brand, part of the Hillshire Brands portfolio, to address weight variance in one-pound sausage rolls that was driving up product giveaway and lost revenue.

3. Increase Production Capacity With Virtualized Process Automation 3/16/2023

   Learn how Sleeman Breweries grew their production, improved process control, and avoided the high expense of building a new greenfield facility.

4. Full Sail Brewing Taps Manufacturing Intelligence To Enhance Process 3/16/2023

   Learn how a new filtration process helped Full Sail Brewing Company use water more efficiently while creating less waste and helping preserve a unique employee culture.

5. Solution Helps Chocolate Manufacturer Build A Streamlined Factory 1/10/2021

   Chocolates Valor S.A. produces high-quality chocolate bars, chocolates and snacks. The company invested in digitalization solutions for the production environment, in particular through Preactor APS, which is a family of products for production planning and programming that improves the synchronization of manufacturing processes and offers greater visibility and control. It showed an immediate return on investment.

6. Brand Spirits Leader Digitizes Business Operations With The SIMATIC IT Suite 1/7/2021

   Gruppo Campari closed 26 acquisitions in the spirits industry in the past two decades to become the world’s sixth player, with over 50 premium and super-premium brands. With each acquisition, Gruppo Campari needs to integrate new products, plants and assets into its operations management systems. By 2012 they realized there was no standard workflow for document authoring and validation, and information was shared via email or phone. Using Siemens technology, Gruppo Campari has created a unified repository for all product specifications and increased the efficiency of product development and manufacturing processes.

7. Drew’s LLC Installs Eriez Liquid Metal Detectors To Detect Any Metal Contaminants During Processing 11/12/2020

   To remain competitive in the demanding and highly-scrutinized food industry, Drew’s achieved certification from the Safe Quality Food Institute in meeting the SQF 2000 Code of Food Safety. With the two Eriez Metal Detectors in place, Drew’s has double protection against any sort of metal particulate reaching customers.

8. Tortilla Manufacturer Installs Mettler-Toledo Safeline Metal Detector For Brand Protection And Ensuring Product Safety 4/20/2020

   Arevalo Foods produces more than 3.5 million tortillas per day at their state-of-the-art facility. To support their double digit growth over the past few years, they installed three metal detectors to help protect their final product quality.

9. Dates Manufacturer Installs Mettler-Toledo Safeline Pipeline Metal Detection System For Challenging Applications 4/20/2020

   The Jewel Date Company is in a sweet spot, with health-conscious consumers driving the popularity of dates as an alternative to refined sugar. To protect their product quality while meeting rising demand, they selected an advanced metal detector for one pipeline system and two conveyorized systems.

10. Nutrien: Breaking Down Data Silos 9/18/2019

    Nutrien is the world’s largest producer of potash and the second-largest producer of nitrogen fertilizer. Many of the company’s individual sites have been using PI System software for some time, but until recently, Nutrien had no enterprise-level system for handling data. By centralizing the flow of data through the company, Nutrien now has better coordination, anticipation, and insight into operations across the business.