Elevate Your F&B Competitive Edge with Swedish Digitalization and Automation Solutions

When Cost Pressures Are More Critical Than Ever

Food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers are facing a challenging dilemma: reducing costs while maintaining consistent quality amidst rising raw material and energy prices, stricter regulations, and rapidly changing consumer demands.

To adapt, many businesses have embraced digital transformation and automation to streamline processes, minimize manual tasks, ensure data transparency, and enable timely decision-making. However, simply adopting advanced technology is not enough. The real value lies in integrating technology into the right processes, aligned with specific goals, to create comprehensive solutions that enhance production efficiency.

Tetra Pak, a global leader in food processing and packaging, has officially launched its new-generation Automation and Digitalization (A&D) ecosystem, Tetra Pak® Factory OS™, at the Gulfood Manufacturing exhibition in Dubai. This solution, tailored for the F&B industry and backed by over 70 years of global expertise, helps businesses not only optimize costs but also build a smart, sustainable production foundation.

5 Ways the A&D System Enhances Competitive Advantage

This ecosystem is designed with an open, flexible, and scalable architecture, providing a foundation for factories to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in F&B production. Combined with advanced Swedish processing and packaging technology, the solution ensures comprehensive quality across all production stages, from raw materials to finished products.

Here are 5 ways the A&D system helps F&B businesses gain a competitive edge:

Smartly Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Cost reduction is not just about cutting expenses but requires a holistic evaluation: identifying value-adding areas and inefficiencies. When data is interconnected across devices, production lines, and systems, businesses gain clearer performance insights, make precise decisions, and maintain stable cost control.

By implementing Tetra Pak’s A&D system, Ningxia Dairy, a subsidiary of Mengniu in China, connected all data to monitor operations in real-time and automate equipment coordination. This resulted in a 32% cost reduction, a 55% decrease in production time, and a 60% drop in product quality-related errors.

Reducing Energy, Water Consumption, and Product Loss

These “hidden” costs significantly impact profitability. Real-time resource monitoring and detailed analysis of Clean-in-Place (CIP) processes enable factories to identify excessive usage, adjust operations, and minimize waste.

In Brazil, a dairy company reduced operational costs by 30% within a year by analyzing CIP processes, simply because they could accurately observe daily resource usage for the first time.

Maintaining and Improving Product Quality Consistency

Centralized data, automated sampling/testing, and real-time operational guidance help businesses make quick decisions and prevent errors at the source. Flexible sampling modes, customizable by product and integrated across all equipment, ensure high accuracy, meeting internal standards and customer expectations.

Built-in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) facilitate performance tracking, swift issue resolution, and continuous improvement, even as product portfolios expand.

Staying Ahead of Regulatory Changes

When operational data is seamlessly connected and integrated with business systems like ERP and MES, information remains uninterrupted. This ensures clear traceability, reduces reliance on manual tasks, and minimizes risks in monitoring.

Enhancing Workforce Quality

With a user-friendly interface and real-time guided processes, engineers at all levels can easily master operations, ensuring quality, regulatory compliance, and cost optimization without additional hiring.

The A&D system, combined with Tetra Pak’s aseptic packaging, ensures comprehensive quality in the final product.

According to Mr. Ngô Thành, Processing Solutions Director at Tetra Pak Vietnam:
“In Vietnam, digitalization and automation are not just trends but essential solutions for optimizing costs, reducing waste, and ensuring stable product quality. With a highly integrated data and automation platform, combined with advanced Swedish processing and packaging technology, Vietnamese F&B businesses will not only grow rapidly but also build smart, sustainable production systems, ensuring food safety and comprehensive quality.”

Learn more about Tetra Pak’s automation and digitalization solutions here.