The Perfect Ingredients for Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Industrial Equipment Manufacturing > Food and Beverage Manufacturing

“ Food Safety, Margin and Consumer ”

Keywords for Food and Beverage Manufacturing

While the competition hots up, food and beverage manufactures seek to maximize the scale of automation to reduce manual workforce overheads, yet still offer innovative and diverse product lines that fulfill rising consumer expectations. Meanwhile, manufacturers still need to pay attention to strict food and trade legislation changes.

How can the food and beverage industry survive on mass produced products with such meager profit margins? Technology is the key! Advantech leverages new automation and AI technology to give manufacturers higher flexibility in production and management efficiency.

Challenges and Opportunities for the F&B Industry

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The pre-process phase mainly covers data collection, control and monitoring of the cleaning, cutting, classification processes by the digital system.

System Requirements:

Time/Speed/Temperature/Pressure/PH value control and monitoring.
Waterproof , splash-proof , anti-corrosion
Variable frequency system to manage machine speeds, cycle times, and schedule rest times
Output management
Emergency stop function

Solution Highlights

Advantech provides solutions for centralized or dispersed deployments in F&B factories. Our solutions support mainstream protocols and multiple I/O. Our IPC and gateway have IP-69K rated protection. IP69K rating provides protection against ingress of dust and high temperature, high pressure water – making products with this certification ideal for use in conditions where equipment must be carefully sanitized like in F&B factories.

SPC-515

15" XGA Stainless Steel Multi-Touch Panel PC

All-around IP69K protection
Food-grade 304L stainless steel chassis
Intel® Skylake Core™ i3-6100U 2.3 GHz processor (Dual-Core)

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UNO-430-E1A

All-Around IP69K/IP68 Waterproof Edge Intelligence Gateway

Intel® Atom E3950 Quad-core processor with 8G DDR3L memory
Robust design for -40~70°C operating temperature, IP69K and IP68-rated protection.
Enclosure with front door and cable gland design ensures easy installation and maintenance to serve as a standalone data acquisition gateway

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AMAX-658

Modular Controller

CODESYS Control SL ready for IEC-61131 language, suitable for material handling, conveyor systems and sorting process market
SoftMotion & CNC Robotic easy connect with Servo Driver/Step Drive for complete EtherCAT solutions.
Supports various IO and is flexible connect to Cloud or IT system by OPC UA, MQTT, ODBC(Database) for OT & IT Integration

ADAM-6300

OPC UA Ethernet I/O Modules

OPC UA empowers Modbus I/O users to access the industrial IoT world
OPC UA I/O links SCADA and the cloud without the need for gateways, accelerating OT and IT convergence
Cost-effective: high I/O density and daisy-chaining solution saves cost

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A key function in food processing and packing is motion control, which highly relies on axis execution, mobility, and control to achieve precise movement and positioning to accurately accomplish a variety of consecutive movements such as spin, roll, and tilt.

System Requirements:

3-axis motion control
Speed control
Variable frequency function
Safety ON/OFF
Procedure management

Solution Highlights

Advantech provides F&B solutions for high quality food-grade manufacturing. Solutions include different Intel processor options to suit different scales of manufacturing. It also supports common motion control systems and protocols, is compact and modular in design, and offers easy maintenance.

SPC-821

21.5" Full HD Standalone Multi-Touch Panel Computer

All-around IP65 protection with integrated push buttons
Intel® Skylake Core™ i3-6100U 2.3 GHz processor (Dual-Core)
Silicone-free design avoids silicone contamination

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UNO-137

Modular DIN-rail Control PC

Intel® Atom® E3940 processor for economic design
Supports wide temp. operation (-40 ~ 70°C) and modular design for optional 1 x iDoor expansion to support various industrial fieldbus applications
2 x LAN, 2 x COM, 4 x USB, 2 x DP for convenient local device connection and HMI usage

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UNO-430-E1A

All-Around IP69K/IP68 Waterproof Edge Intelligence Gateway

Intel® Atom E3950 Quad-core processor with 8G DDR3L memory
Robust design for -40~70°C operating temperature, IP69K and IP68-rated protection.
Enclosure with front door and cable gland design ensures easy installation and maintenance to serve as a standalone data acquisition gateway

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AMAX-637

Cabinet Controller

CODESYS Control SL ready for IEC-61131 language, suitable for material handling, conveyor systems and sorting process market
SoftMotion & CNC Robotic easy connect with Servo Driver/Step Drive for complete EtherCAT solutions
Flexible connect to Cloud or IT system by OPC UA, MQTT, ODBC (Database) for OT & IT Integration

AMAX-658

Modular Controller

CODESYS Control SL ready for IEC-61131 language, suitable for material handling, conveyor systems and sorting process market
SoftMotion & CNC Robotic easy connect with Servo Driver/Step Drive for complete EtherCAT solutions
Supports various IO and is flexible connect to Cloud or IT system by OPC UA, MQTT, ODBC (Database) for OT & IT Integration

Quality Control

When food quality inspection relies on manual (or human visual recognition) manufactures suffer inefficiencies. Legacy automation systems might have reached the limit of inspection efficiency. But now AI inspection is being introduced into the production line, so inspection accuracy, speed and efficiency all increase.

System Requirements:

Visual inspection
Data visualization
High-res graphic capture, processing, and recognition
AI computing & deep learning

Solution Highlights

Advantech provides a comprehensive AI inspection solution, which includes intelligent vision inspection, monitoring, deep learning and training, which not only improves accuracy and speed, but with AI training, the system can optimize , remodel, and upgrade inspection models in production.

MIC-710AIX

Fanless Compact AI Inference System based on NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX

Compact fanless design
NVIDIA® Jetson™ Xavier NX embedded
2 x embedded LAN port
Linux OS with board support package (BSP)
Supports deep learning trained models
Wide operating temperature range
Support 24/7 secure remote monitoring, control, and OTA deployment empowered by Allxon

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TPC-B610

Fanless Desktop Performance Touch Panel PC with Intel® 10th Gen. Core™ i CPU Socket

6 x Panel Modules (IP66) ranging from 15" to 23.8" in selection
Dual Channel Memory slots (DDR4) support up to 64GB in total
Comprehensive I/Os, including 6 x USB, 2 x COM, 2 x RJ45...etc
Supports multiple storage and expansion via 1 x PCIe x16, 1 x mPCIe, 2 x M.2 (NVMe, SATA, 5G)

PCIE-1674

4-Port PCI Express GigE Vision Frame Grabber

Intel® server-grade GbE Mac Controller
PCI Express® x4 compliant
PoE power from PCIe slot(Total Max. 18W)
Powered Device (PD) auto detection and classification
Supports IEEE 802.3u Auto-Negotiation
Supports Jumbo frame (9,500 byte) and link aggregation
Supports IEEE-1588 and IEEE-802.1 AS
Per port power on/off control (PCIE-1674V)

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QUARTZ

0.3-20.0 Mega Pixel PoE Industrial Camera

Best price/performance ratio CCD and CMOS sensor options
Resolution up to 20 MP
100 m cable length
Ultra small form factor
Built in 56 MB frame buffer
Power over Ethernet

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EKI-7428G-4X

Industrial 10G Ethernet Switch

24 x Gigabit Ethernet ports and 4 x10G SFP ports
Management: SNMP v1/v2c/v3, WEB, Telnet, Standard MIB
Redundancy: Gigabit X-Ring Pro, RSTP/STP (802.1w/1D), MSTP

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Food Traceability

Food production requires total food history management that can record data and track workflows, which improves food quality and safety, and allows predictive maintenance.

System Requirements:

Data visualization
High hardware and software compatibility and scalability
Remote management

Solution Highlights

Advantech Food Traceability solution includes high-end IPCs, which are equipped with advanced Intel processers and high-speed networking equipment. They meet the requirements for food data recording and storage on production lines and in control centers. They offer the advantages of visualization, high reliability, high security, high scalability, and easy management.

HPC-8208 + ASMB-816T2

2U Rackmount Server

Ensures production continuity and data integrity with fault-tolerance software
Enjoy 99.999% industrial application uptime
Supports built-in visualization and 24/7 operation with constant uptime for industrial applications

ACP-4340 + AIMB-787

Intelligent 4U Rackmount IPC

Intel® 10th generation Core™ i9/i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processor with Q470E chipset
Supports up to 128GB of duel-channel (non-ECC) DDR 2400/2666/2933 MHz memory
Accommodates 4 hot-swap drive trays

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TPC-317-R873A

17" SXGA Panel PC

5G Supported
Equipped with TPM 2.0 Hardware Security
Built-in NVMe storage interface, and dual channel RAM support up to 64G DDR4 , suitable for high speed application

EKI-2528I-M12

IP-67 M12 Unmanaged Ethernet Switch

M12 Connectors and IP67 housing
Provides 8 fast Ethernet ports with Auto MDI/MDI-X
Supports wide operating temperature range from -40 to 75 °C

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EKI-9728G-4X8CI

Combo L3 Managed Ethernet Switch

16 x Gigabit RJ-45 ports + 4 x 10GbE SFP ports + 8 x Gigabit combo ports
L3 function : Static route , RIP v1/v2 , OSPF v2 , VRRP
SFP socket for easy and flexible fiber expansion

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Smart Management of Devices with Advantech Edge Software

DeviceOn/BI

Device Management and Business Integration Platform

Hierarchical organization twin object management
Dashboard wizard
Open API plugin for data exchange
Easy interface with low learning curve
Instant and dynamic domain logic scenario co
Available in cloud or on-premise versions

WebAccess/SCADA

Industrial IoT Application Software Platform

Enables 100% web-based remote engineering, monitoring, and control.
Supports standard protocols including Modbus, OPC UA, OPC DA, Ethernet/IP, DNP3, SNMP and BACnet.
Driver support for major PLCs, PACs, I/O modules, CNCs, network switches, and computer platforms.

WISE-EdgeLink

Powerful Edge-to-Could Middleware for Intelligent Gateway Solutions

Lightweight gateway software for uploading data from the edge to the cloud.
Supports communication with 200+ PLCs and IO modules equipment data integrated into middleware with secure data conversion
Data publishing capabilities via OPC-UA, Modbus, DNP3, BECnet, MQTT, and LwM2M.
Data backups to database and FTP server.