Digital information management solution

Today’s food and bev­er­age pro­duc­tion demands a dig­i­tal fill­ing line solu­tion that can deliv­er a high­ly accu­rate mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem for infor­ma­tion man­age­ment that may be remote but is always using real time data in order to opti­mise oper­a­tions and improve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. SIG’s answer to this is com­biLink – a sin­gle and flex­i­ble infor­ma­tion man­age­ment solu­tion for fill­ing line operation.
Food and bev­er­age pro­duc­tion is becom­ing more chal­leng­ing, with fill­ing plants fac­ing high­er demands, greater com­pe­ti­tion and ever short­er pro­duc­tion cycles. All too often, man­u­fac­tur­ers are faced with mul­ti­ple report­ing sys­tems, out­dat­ed data, man­u­al data col­lec­tion and a lack of fill­ing line insights.
By con­nect­ing every machine in a fill­ing line, SIG’s com­biLink col­lects unlim­it­ed data and shows it in pre­con­fig­ured or per­son­al­ly designed reports. Cus­tomers can view charts show­ing oper­a­tional and tech­ni­cal effi­cien­cy and view down­time inci­dents from their desk­tops, tablets or smart­phones. Smart noti­fi­ca­tions can alert the team to inci­dents so avoid­ing bot­tle­necks and cost­ly downtime.
With the same con­nec­tiv­i­ty used in IoT appli­ca­tions, com­biLink seam­less­ly con­nects every machine in a fill­ing line. This means pro­duc­ers get a sin­gle end-to-end win­dow to view cur­rent and his­tor­i­cal lev­els of effi­cien­cy and per­for­mance, while also see­ing where improve­ments can be made in the future. combiLink’s con­nec­tiv­i­ty is based on the lat­est indus­tri­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dard OMAC, enabling it to col­lect unlim­it­ed data over OPC UA tech­nol­o­gy from every machine and store it securely.
com­biLink can also send out data to MES, ERP and oth­er busi­ness intel­li­gence sys­tems. Its open archi­tec­ture and stan­dards-based inter­face con­nect eas­i­ly to third par­ty appli­ca­tions such as cloud based sys­tems and pre­dic­tive analy­sis tools. This two way com­mu­ni­ca­tion enables unlim­it­ed oper­a­tion appli­ca­tions with the option of cus­tomer plug-ins.
Turn­ing the chal­lenges of high speed pro­duc­tion into real­i­ty, SIG’s smart fac­to­ry solu­tions under­line its com­mit­ment to con­stant sys­tem inno­va­tion always bear­ing the lat­est cus­tomer needs in mind.