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Efficiency is at the heart of all challenges facing food manufacturers. Cutting costs and delivery times boost profits. Take these steps toward improving your plant and enhancing your efficiency.

Ready your plant for risks

You could lose your entire inventory to a broken refrigerator or chiller unit. Regular maintenance can prevent breakdowns, but you must be ready for inventory losses if a temperature control system stops working. Install backup generators to keep refrigeration units running in blackouts. Like the refrigerators themselves, the generators will also need regular maintenance to ensure they will work when needed.

Aside from keeping up your equipment to prevent failure, you can also invest in business loss insurance. Coverage under business loss policies includes product losses from weather events and power outages. If an unexpected event occurs, you'll be able to get back on your feet faster. Your facility's productivity will improve with the loss recovery from insurance, since the event will not set you back as far as it would if you lacked insurance.

Become more energy-efficient

Energy-efficiency reduces your operating costs effortlessly. Incorporate natural light into your facility to reduce the number of light fixtures you need. For the ones you do have, select long-lasting LED lightbulbs. LED lights use less power and last years longer than fluorescent or incandescent bulbs. 

Conserve water

Food production uses more water than many other manufacturing plants. By cutting back on water use, you will save money. You can then reinvest the money you save into making your facility more productive. 

Embrace predictive maintenance

Technology can help make your facility more efficient, even if you don't want to automate everything. Predictive maintenance saves both time and money by telling you when equipment is about to break down. You can plan repairs and upkeep more efficiently and reduce downtime at your facility. 

Increase use of automation and integration

Automation enhances productivity by reducing errors and increasing uptime. If you have an older facility, you may still rely on human workers for processes that could be automated. Invest in automation equipment to improve efficiency. Train the human workers in other positions around your facility, such as running the machinery, so they can keep their jobs.

Reduce contamination risk

Recalls waste time and harm productivity. Instead of reacting to recalls, become proactive and prevent contamination in the first place. Food recalls are expensive. Manufacturers in half the food recalls have had to spend $10mn or more. To avoid contamination, only use equipment intended for food and drink manufacturing, which includes everything from cleaning supplies to air compressors.

A more efficient plant

Food manufacturer have many more factors to consider than other businesses. Though the industry of food and drink manufacturing is complicated, you don't need sophisticated algorithms to improve your efficiency. Take the steps mentioned above to make your plant more productive and improve operations.

Assemco - outsourcing solutions We almost always approach the production process as a homogeneous task. However, reality indicates the opposite: so many activities are part of it, that for that reason alone there are hundreds of valid execution models in certain contexts, situations or junctures.

For example, production is not necessarily linear or continuous, as we believed until recently. Nor does it have to have the same execution focus or a traditional physical space where it takes place.

To this should be added the emergence of new technologies and the changes that they have entailed in traditional production processes, which have become more agile, dynamic, efficient and have even adapted other formats and execution routes.

Do you know the main phases of the production process?

In essence, a business production process is the conjunction of elements such as capital, labor and resources, as well as others not necessarily tangible such as ideas, innovation and the logistical capacity of an organization.

Its main objective is none other than to increase consumer satisfaction, for which it is necessary to put into practice all the decisions and solutions that are necessary during the phases of the process as such.

This concept can be better understood if we look in detail at the different phases that comprise it, which range from the collection and supply of raw materials, to the conditioning stage. Let's see what they are and what each one consists of:

1. Collection (analytical stage):

In this first stage of the production process, companies strive to obtain as many raw materials as possible to manufacture their articles, products or services. In this search, of course, it is ideal to contact those suppliers or intermediaries that offer a price in accordance with the budgetary expectations of the process.

2. Production (synthesis or assembly stage):

After the raw materials are collected, they enter a process in which they are transformed or adapted to serve as the basis for the materialization of the intended products or services. This stage is also characterized by the assembly of stocks as such and therefore it is essential to carry out monitoring, control and accompaniment work so that the results are those that we have planned at the beginning of the production process.

3. Processing (conditioning stage):

The third and last stage of the production process refers to the work of adapting the product to the needs of the customers. That is, all the elements are geared towards marketing, transportation, distribution at the various points of sale, stock storage and other tangible elements associated with demand.