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Consumer packaged good manufacturing software

With rapidly changing consumer preferences, tighter regulatory requirements and rising commodity prices, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers are under constant pressure to sustainably maintain quality and reduce costs. Velotic manufacturing software provides digital transformation solutions designed to improve operational efficiency, product quality, and operationalize sustainability goals.

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What could you do with:

$5M annual quality improvement savings

Plant downtime is going down

25% downtime reduction

Need faster NPIs:

30% faster new production introductions
Benefits

What challenges will you overcome today with Velotic?

From supply chain disruptions and labor shortages to rising production costs and increasing retail demands, CPG manufacturers face significant challenges that impact productivity and profitability. Velotic helps manufacturers connect systems, optimize operations, improve production visibility, and leverage real-time data to increase throughput, reduce waste, strengthen quality, and support continuous improvement across the enterprise.

Manufacturing & supply chain disruptions / complexity

CPG manufacturers face growing supply chain complexity driven by changing consumer demand, retailer expectations, inventory volatility, and global sourcing challenges. Velotic solutions provide real-time visibility into production, materials, inventory, and operations, helping manufacturers improve agility, reduce disruptions, and maintain predictable production performance while lowering operational costs. This enables more resilient manufacturing operations and faster responses to changing market conditions.

Talent & labor shortages

Labor shortages and workforce turnover continue to challenge CPG manufacturers. Velotic solutions help capture institutional knowledge through digital workflows, connected worker applications, operational guidance, and intuitive user experiences that standardize processes and reduce reliance on tribal knowledge. This accelerates onboarding, improves workforce productivity, and helps ensure consistent execution across shifts and facilities.

Production agility & operational performance

CPG manufacturers must rapidly respond to changing consumer preferences, production requirements, and product mixes. Velotic solutions provide real-time production visibility, digital work instructions, performance monitoring, and manufacturing execution capabilities that reduce changeover times, improve throughput, and increase operational flexibility. The result is greater production agility, improved margins, and more consistent product quality.

Pressure to innovate

Consumer expectations and retailer demands require manufacturers to continuously introduce new products while reducing time-to-market. Velotic solutions help streamline New Product Introduction (NPI) processes by connecting engineering, quality, production, and operational data, enabling faster product launches and more efficient scale-up from pilot to commercial production. This helps manufacturers capitalize on market opportunities and stay ahead of competitors.

Interest rates & inflation

Rising material costs, labor expenses, energy prices, and economic uncertainty place significant pressure on profitability. Velotic solutions provide real-time operational intelligence, production analytics, and cost visibility that help manufacturers identify inefficiencies, optimize resource utilization, and make data-driven decisions. This enables organizations to protect margins, control costs, and improve financial performance despite market volatility.

Limited insights from siloed data

Disconnected systems and fragmented data make it difficult for manufacturers to gain a complete view of operations. Velotic solutions connect OT and IT systems across plants and business functions, creating a single source of truth for production, quality, inventory, and performance data. This improves collaboration, accelerates decision-making, and enables continuous improvement initiatives through trusted, real-time information.

Constant pressures from the C-suite and big retail

CPG manufacturers are under constant pressure to improve profitability, meet retailer requirements, maintain product quality, and achieve sustainability goals. Velotic solutions provide actionable insights into production performance, COGS, quality, waste, energy consumption, and operational efficiency, helping organizations reduce costs, improve margins, strengthen retailer relationships, and build a competitive advantage through data-driven operations.
Applicable Solutions

Solutions for operational excellence

CPG manufacturers need connected, scalable solutions that improve production visibility, increase agility, reduce waste, and optimize performance across manufacturing and packaging operations. Velotic's integrated portfolio connects operational data, production systems, and advanced analytics to help manufacturers improve quality, increase throughput, streamline scheduling, and make faster, data-driven decisions. From real-time production management and industrial connectivity to AI-powered analytics and scheduling optimization, these solutions help CPG manufacturers build smarter, more resilient operations capable of meeting changing consumer demand while improving profitability and operational excellence.

Proficy Smart Factory MES

Improve product quality, traceability, and manufacturing efficiency through real-time production management and digital process execution.

Kepware

Connect production lines, packaging equipment, and enterprise systems to enable seamless data flow and real-time operational insights.

ThingWorx

Create a connected CPG enterprise with centralized visibility into production performance, asset health, and operational KPIs across facilities.

Proficy Scheduler

Optimize production schedules to balance demand, minimize changeovers, and maximize utilization across manufacturing and packaging operations.

iFIX

Empower operators with real-time monitoring and control of manufacturing processes to improve productivity, quality, and operational responsiveness.

Proficy CSense

Use advanced analytics and AI-driven insights to reduce variability, optimize production processes, and improve product consistency.
Success Stories

CPG manufacturing success stories: real results in productivity, quality, and efficiency

Leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers are using Velotic solutions to improve production efficiency, increase OEE, reduce waste, accelerate product innovation, and create connected operations across global manufacturing networks. By combining operational visibility, manufacturing execution, industrial connectivity, and advanced analytics, CPG manufacturers can respond faster to changing consumer demand while improving quality, profitability, and supply chain performance.
Resources

Explore CPG digital transformation resources

Explore expert perspectives, customer success stories, and best practices covering industrial connectivity, operational intelligence, predictive maintenance, MES implementation, industrial AI, and digital transformation for CPG Manufacturing.

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  • Everything you need to know about manufacturing execution systems

    White paper

  • Close the Productivity Gap with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

    Discover how food & beverage and CPG manufacturers are using OEE to reduce downtime, improve quality, and increase throughput. Download the white paper to learn how.

    White paper Close the Productivity Gap with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

  • Improving Process Transparency in Food and Beverage Manufacturing | Velotic

    In today’s manufacturing environment, traceability is imperative for avoiding and minimizing quality issues that can result in product recalls and harm to the brand equity. Even with detailed HACCP (hazard analysis critical control point) procedures and SOPs (standard operating procedures) in place, it can be difficult to monitor compliance. This white paper discusses and provides a customer case study of how digitalization leveraging electronic work process management can greatly improve traceability by digitizing and documenting both manual and automated processes—and ensuring compliance with HACCP procedures and SOPs.

    White paper

  • Top 5 Software Capabilities for Ensuring Food Safety

    There’s a real opportunity for manufacturers to improve food safety during production with critical software capabilities that leverage real-time actionable knowledge and provide insight and analytics for enhanced control and consistency.

    White paper
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for CPG?

A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps CPG manufacturers manage production operations, quality processes, material tracking, downtime monitoring, OEE measurement, and operational workflows. Proficy Smart Factory MES helps improve production performance while standardizing manufacturing execution across sites and facilities.

How can CPG manufacturers improve production efficiency?

Improving efficiency starts with real-time visibility into equipment performance, production processes, labor utilization, and operational bottlenecks. Connected manufacturing systems help manufacturers identify losses, reduce downtime, optimize changeovers, and improve throughput across production and packaging operations.

What challenges are CPG manufacturers facing today?

CPG manufacturers face increasing pressure from changing consumer demand, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, product innovation requirements, retailer expectations, rising operating costs, and limited visibility from siloed data. Modern manufacturing software helps organizations address these challenges through connected operations and data-driven decision-making.

How does digital transformation help CPG manufacturers?

Digital transformation enables CPG manufacturers to connect operational systems, automate manual processes, improve visibility, and establish a single source of truth across facilities. This improves agility, supports continuous improvement initiatives, accelerates innovation, and helps companies respond faster to market changes.

How does Kepware support CPG manufacturing?

Kepware provides industrial connectivity that enables manufacturers to securely connect packaging lines, production equipment, PLCs, SCADA systems, sensors, and enterprise applications. This creates a reliable foundation for operational intelligence, analytics, manufacturing optimization, and AI initiatives.

How does Proficy Smart Factory MES help consumer packaged goods companies?

Proficy Smart Factory MES provides production tracking, digital manufacturing workflows, quality management, OEE monitoring, scheduling integration, and operational visibility. This helps manufacturers improve throughput, reduce waste, increase quality consistency, and support enterprise-wide manufacturing standardization.

How can CPG manufacturers improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?

Improving OEE requires visibility into equipment availability, performance, and quality losses. By capturing real-time manufacturing data and analyzing downtime events, manufacturers can identify opportunities to improve performance and utilization. Companies such as Church & Dwight achieved a 6% OEE improvement using Proficy Smart Factory solutions.

How does Proficy Historian help CPG manufacturers?

Proficy Historian captures and stores high-frequency manufacturing data from production systems and equipment. Manufacturers use this data for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance improvement, compliance reporting, and operational optimization initiatives.

How can CPG manufacturers reduce downtime?

Reducing downtime begins with understanding equipment performance, maintenance needs, and production conditions in real time. Connected operational intelligence enables manufacturers to identify potential issues earlier, improve maintenance planning, and respond more quickly to operational disruptions.

How does Proficy Scheduler improve production planning?

Proficy Scheduler helps manufacturers balance demand requirements, production capacity, labor availability, materials, and equipment constraints. Optimized scheduling improves throughput, minimizes changeovers, increases resource utilization, and helps manufacturers respond more effectively to changing business conditions.

How can CPG companies manage product innovation and new product introductions (NPI)?

Modern manufacturing systems help standardize production processes, improve collaboration, and shorten time to market for new product introductions. Digital workflows and production visibility help manufacturers scale innovation while maintaining quality and operational consistency.

How does ThingWorx support connected CPG operations?

ThingWorx connects machines, production systems, assets, workers, and business data into a single contextualized operational environment. This enables real-time production monitoring, operational intelligence, asset performance management, connected worker initiatives, and scalable AI-driven decision-making.

How can industrial AI improve CPG manufacturing performance?

Industrial AI helps manufacturers identify patterns, uncover root causes, predict operational issues, and recommend actions before performance is impacted. AI-driven insights support improved throughput, reduced waste, enhanced quality, faster decision-making, and increased operational resilience.

How can CPG manufacturers improve supply chain agility?

Supply chain agility improves when manufacturers have visibility into production, inventory, equipment performance, and operational constraints. Connected operational intelligence helps organizations adapt faster to consumer demand shifts, supply disruptions, and changing market conditions.

How can CPG manufacturers reduce costs?

Manufacturers reduce costs by improving throughput, reducing downtime, minimizing material waste, optimizing labor utilization, improving asset efficiency, and increasing production visibility. Connected manufacturing platforms help identify cost reduction opportunities across the entire operation.

Can Velotic software integrate with existing manufacturing systems?

Yes. Velotic solutions are designed with an open, interoperable architecture that connects existing equipment, ERP systems, MES platforms, SCADA systems, historians, and business applications. This allows manufacturers to modernize operations while protecting existing technology investments.

Why choose Velotic for CPG manufacturing?

Velotic brings together Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx into one industrial software system that helps CPG manufacturers connect data, optimize production, improve asset performance, scale AI-driven intelligence, and accelerate digital transformation. The portfolio supports process, batch, hybrid, and packaging operations and is used by more than 80% of the world's top 20 consumer goods companies and over 3,500 CPG customers globally.