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Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Today’s food and beverage producers are under pressure to:

1. Continually increase margins and profitability through process improvement, and
2. Maintain the quality their customers have come to expect.

It is difficult to deliver improvement projects while maintaining quality and brand standards. Therefore, it is critical to implement production monitoring solutions that do not disrupt your manufacturing processes or affect the finished product. Vorne XL is exactly such a solution: No software to install, no servers to maintain, no recurring fees, and no contracts. Instead, you get unlimited users, free technical support, a 3-year warranty, and free software updates.

Driving Improvement for Food and Beverage

Our food and beverage users make something tastier, healthier, or more innovative than other options on the market, so it is critical to be able to optimize the process while maintaining the product that customers love.

The Vorne XL Productivity Appliance empowers food and beverage manufacturers to monitor their processes, improve throughput, and maximize efficiency, all while preserving the integrity of their products. XL drops onto your existing process, making it a quick and easy solution that requires little to no changes on the line.

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Key Benefits for Food and Beverage

Vorne XL products are completely non-specialized with regard to the type of equipment in your manufacturing process. This is a huge advantage as you can easily apply XL to any line and get the same wealth of information. XL includes I/O to integrate with your process, a scoreboard for your operators, and built-in reporting for your managers. It scales from machine to enterprise. Monitor filling machines, cappers, labelers, checkweighers, case packers, and other equipment with the one solution, quickly seeing benefits such as:

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Optimized Changeover Efficiency Understand the true impact bottle changes or label changes have on production time and set targets for completing CIP, sanitization, or allergen wash events.
2
Comprehensive Job and SKU Tracking Analyze the performance of every job and SKU on your line. For example, precisely know OEE, run rate, cases produced, labor efficiency, etc.
3
Speed Monitoring and Alerts Isolate periods of time the filler or labeler was running at reduced speed with performance loss metrics, and receive alerts when the line is running slow or down.
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Real-Time Performance Visualize the current line speed in PPM or PPH and compare average cycle times against your ICT. Motivate operators to “win the shift” with real-time target counts.
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Enhanced Quality Control Gather critical quality loss data by designating multiple reject stations at, for example, a kick-off valve, checkweigher, metal detector, or AOI camera.

You're in excellent company

Vorne XL users span across 45+ countries and are in virtually every industry - including many in food and beverage. Take a look at a sampling of food and beverage manufacturers that have unlocked the benefits of XL to obtain accurate and actionable data, critical insights, and a foundation for their continuous improvement programs.

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Learn more about Vorne XL

We would be happy to show you XL, deep dive into your challenges and your processes, and answer any questions you may have. We also offer free 90-day trials. In fact, we have completed thousands of successful XL trials. Did you know that 91.9% of companies that try XL buy XL?

Metrics, Dimensions, and Dashboards

Vorne XL delivers an incredible data foundation and the tools you need to effectively drive your continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, and digital transformation initiatives. With XL you get immediate access to over 100 highly accurate and actionable metrics and 20 data dimensions - in real time and for deep retrospective analysis through historical reporting. There are dozens of built-in reports and you can easily create your own reporting dashboards.

Vorne XL User Success Stories

XL helps manufacturers in almost every industry improve their process productivity. You will love our free support, free software updates, 3-year warranty, transparent pricing, fast implementation, and of course, the wealth of product features. That is why we have so many customers who share their success stories.

M.H. Plant Manager Personal Care and Household ProductsAt Cosmetic Essence we have been aggressively working to improve our OEE and manufacturing efficiencies. So far this year, we have been able to achieve a 22% improvement in OEE, and Vorne XL has been an integral part of our improvement process. By knowing the status of all our lines in real-time, we can address problems in real-time. With XL, our entire team sees downtime, and eliminates downtime. We count on Vorne XL to show us what areas we need to address, and we take immediate action from there.

W.M. Operations Manager Food Manufacturing PlantI've used Vorne XL in my last three roles and it has really made a difference. When I joined my last plant our OEE was 30%. Each month we picked a focus metric from the XL and trained the team on that metric. I showed everyone how it affected the line and then we worked together to drive up the number. We steadily improved, and when I left the plant our OEE was 74%!

J.M. | Maintenance Manager | Wholesale Premium Food ProductsBefore XL we struggled with closing gaps and identifying known issue occurrences, being a paper-driven, labor dependent facility. After installing Vorne XL HD we are able to document and execute plans with deliberate intent and with a high probability of success. For example, after 3 weeks of running Vorne XL HD, we were able to address 7 hours of a known time loss occurrence (Obstruction Eye) in a way we could plan and get behind. We contacted the OEM, made correction to the machine, and now we have GAINED 4 weeks of production availability per year!

J.D. Maintenance Manager Food Products ManufacturerI have purchased and installed Vorne products for almost 10 years now, so I trust their ability to survive in a food manufacturing environment. The XL Series allowed me to introduce a new concept – real-time visualization – for very little cost and complexity. The alternative would have been to use PLCs, interface them with a PC, find and run software on the PC to drive the displays, and interface them with the displays. There is simply no comparison! I really like the product and will recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone.

S.T. Plant Engineer International Glass Products ManufacturerThe Vorne displays definitely generate a competitive interest on the plant floor. Until we put the displays up it was not uncommon to see 160 minutes of shift downtime. Now that operators can see the downtime in real time it is down to just 10 or 12 minutes per shift. Also, one of our production shifts just broke the all-time run rate for the line.

R.N. Continuous Improvement Manager Food Ingredients ManufacturerWe bought an XL system in September, and within a month we were seeing improvements of up to 8% in our OEE. Our OEE is now trending towards a 10% improvement. After our first month we visited Vorne for a 2 day training session and have left with a really solid plan to maximize how we use the system. We have now started introducing XL to our sister plants to align it with our group OEE methodology.

G.K. Continuous Improvement Manager Global Food Service ProviderWe purchased a Vorne XL display to help us monitor production rates and apply lean manufacturing tools to one of our many value streams. By efficiently working to takt time, we have been able to eliminate waste and improve productivity, while maintaining our commitment to quality. We have calculated a 30 percent labor savings on our pilot project which yielded a 31 day payback. Since the pilot we have installed another two XL displays. As you can imagine, we will be continuing to add more Vorne displays!

A.C. Manufacturing Consultant Manufacturing Consulting FirmWhen we installed Vorne displays showing target and actual production rates, the target rate for one of the lines was inadvertently set higher than was planned. One of the engineers set the target rate to 180 pcs/min for a part that was scheduled for 140 pcs/min. A few hours later when the plant manager glanced at the display, he was amazed to see the actual performance at 178 pcs/min. The line was running at 127% of plan simply because the goal was there! The Vorne displays showed us that our team members can outperform our own expectations. After we started visual management using the Vorne displays, the lines are showing record productivity numbers.

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Food and Beverage Specialties

Our XL Productivity Appliance, with its fully integrated OEE reporting system, works well across an extremely broad range of food and beverage industry specialties. Here are some of the more common specialty areas where XL is used:

Bakery Products Manufacturing
Beverage Manufacturing
Cereal and Grain Processing
Confectionary Manufacturing
Dairy Processing
Food Ingredients Manufacturing
Food Processing

Frozen Food Manufacturing
Meat Processing
Prepared Foods Manufacturing
Sauce and Condiment Manufacturing
Seafood Product Manufacturing
Snack Food Production
Specialty Foods Products Manufacturing

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