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Food & beverage manufacturing software

With decades of experience and innovation across more than 2,000 F&B customers, Velotic is the proven partner of choice to help you achieve overcome manufacturing challenges and help you achieve your business goals.

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39% decrease in downtime events

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$500K annual waste savings

Fast time to value:

3-month payback on MES
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Benefits

What challenges will you overcome today with Velotic?

Velotic can help you reinvent your everyday operations with innovative solutions that prepare your company for the demands of tomorrow. Every day our solutions help our customers monitor production lines, evaluate equipment performance, quantify scrap rates, optimize energy usage, and solve quality control problems.

Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA 204)

Implementing software solutions helps ensure comprehensive traceability and genealogy, enabling manufacturers to comply with FSMA 204 regulations requiring detailed production records from raw materials to finished products.

FDA's Food Traceability List

Manufacturing & supply chain disruptions/complexity

Advanced software solutions help improve supply chain visibility and agility, allowing manufacturers to respond swiftly to disruptions and minimize downtime. This can result in a more resilient and predictable manufacturing process, maintaining consistent production levels with reduced operational costs.

Manufacturing & supply chain disruptions/complexity

Talent / labor shortages

Software solutions with intuitive UX capture and utilize institutional knowledge, helps ensure standard operating procedures are followed. By incorporating institutional knowledge and enabling self-service, manufacturers can maintain high productivity levels despite labor shortages.

Talent/Labor shortages

Production agility & operational performance

Rapid changeover process with electronic work instructions – reducing downtime and increasing production agility. This leads to faster production cycles, improved margins, and consistent product quality, meeting market demands more effectively.

Production agility & operational performance

Pressure to innovate

Shortening the time to market for New Product Introductions (NPIs) allows manufacturers to capitalize on market opportunities faster, staying competitive, and meeting consumer demands. Proficy Software solutions help facilitate efficient NPI processes, which can reduce the time to bring new products to market.

Pressure to innovate

Interest rates and inflation

Advanced software provides real-time financial insights and predictive analytics, so that manufacturers can adapt to economic fluctuations. This helps maintain profitability despite rising interest rates and inflation, safeguarding the business's financial health.

Interest rates and inflation

Limited insights from siloed data

Integrating data across functions, sites, and enterprises into a single source of truth enhances visibility and collaboration. This democratization of data empowers decision-makers with accurate, real-time information, driving informed strategic decisions and operational efficiency.

Constant pressures from the C-suite and big retail

Software solutions support continuous improvement initiatives by providing insights into cost of goods sold (COGS), and sustainability which helps manufacturers reduce costs, improve margins, and achieve long-term financial health. This helps manufacturers meet C-suite and retail demands and strengthen competitive advantage.

Applicable Solutions

Solutions for operational excellence

Food and beverage manufacturers need connected, production-focused solutions that help ensure food safety, improve traceability, optimize quality, and increase operational efficiency across processing, packaging, and distribution operations. Velotic's integrated portfolio connects equipment, people, and data to deliver real-time visibility, intelligent decision-making, and greater agility throughout the manufacturing lifecycle. From industrial connectivity and manufacturing execution to advanced analytics, scheduling optimization, and plant-floor visualization, these solutions help food and beverage manufacturers reduce waste, improve compliance, increase throughput, and build a scalable foundation for continuous improvement and AI-driven operations.

Kepware

Connect production equipment, packaging lines, and plant systems to enable seamless data collection and real-time operational visibility.

ThingWorx

Accelerate digital transformation with enterprise-wide monitoring, asset performance insights, and connected operations across food and beverage facilities.

Proficy Smart Factory MES

Improve traceability, quality, and production efficiency with digital work instructions, electronic batch records, and real-time manufacturing execution.

Proficy Scheduler

Optimize production schedules to maximize throughput, reduce changeover time, and meet customer demand while minimizing downtime.

iFIX

Gain real-time visibility into plant operations with intuitive HMI/SCADA capabilities that help operators monitor, control, and improve production performance.

Proficy CSense

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

Real results across food & beverage manufacturing

Leading food and beverage manufacturers are using Velotic solutions to improve food safety, increase throughput, reduce waste, strengthen traceability, and optimize production performance across global operations. By connecting people, processes, machines, and data, manufacturers gain the visibility and intelligence needed to improve quality, accelerate decision-making, and achieve measurable business results.
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Explore expert perspectives, customer success stories, and best practices covering industrial connectivity, operational intelligence, predictive maintenance, MES implementation, industrial AI, and digital transformation for F&B Manufacturing.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is food and beverage manufacturing software?

Food and beverage manufacturing software helps producers manage production, quality, food safety, traceability, scheduling, and operational performance across manufacturing operations. By connecting equipment, production systems, and operational data, manufacturers can improve efficiency, maintain quality standards, and respond more quickly to changing consumer demand. Velotic combines Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx to create a connected manufacturing environment that supports real-time operational intelligence.

How can food manufacturers improve food safety and traceability?

Food manufacturers can improve food safety and traceability by digitally tracking ingredients, work-in-process materials, finished goods, and packaging throughout production. Digital genealogy and production records make it easier to support food safety initiatives, accelerate recalls when necessary, and comply with regulations such as FSMA 204.

What is FSMA 204 compliance and how can software help?

FSMA 204 is a Food Safety Modernization Act requirement focused on food traceability. Manufacturing software helps capture and maintain digital records, ingredient genealogy, batch histories, and production events that enable faster traceability and improved compliance with regulatory requirements.

What are the key features to look for in food and beverage manufacturing software?

Key features to look for in food and beverage manufacturing software include a robust Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for production management, food safety and traceability capabilities for compliance with regulations such as FSMA 204, quality management tools for ensuring product consistency, and production scheduling software for maximizing throughput and minimizing downtime. Manufacturers should also look for recipe and batch management, real-time production visibility, industrial analytics and AI, and industrial connectivity that integrates production equipment, business systems, and supply chain data. Additional capabilities such as genealogy tracking, sustainability monitoring, and scalable cloud deployment help food and beverage manufacturers improve quality, agility, and operational performance.

✔ Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Manage production operations, track performance, monitor OEE, standardize execution, and improve visibility across manufacturing processes.

✔ Food Safety & Traceability Enable end-to-end ingredient, batch, lot, and pallet traceability to support food safety initiatives, rapid recalls, and FSMA 204 compliance.

✔ Quality Management Monitor quality metrics, enforce specifications, reduce variability, and ensure consistent product quality throughout production.

✔ Production Scheduling Optimize production schedules, minimize changeovers, improve resource utilization, and increase manufacturing agility.

✔ Recipe & Batch Management Control formulations, recipes, batch execution, ingredient consumption, and process consistency while supporting rapid product innovation.

✔ Real-Time Production Visibility Gain instant insight into production performance, downtime, throughput, quality, and equipment health through connected operational data.

✔ Industrial Connectivity Connect production equipment, PLCs, SCADA systems, sensors, ERP systems, and business applications to create a unified operational view.

✔ Analytics & AI Leverage predictive analytics, machine learning, and AI-driven insights to improve quality, reduce waste, predict downtime, and optimize production performance.

✔ Sustainability & Resource Management Monitor energy consumption, ingredient utilization, waste generation, and sustainability KPIs to support environmental goals and cost reduction initiatives.

✔ Scalability & Cloud Deployment Support enterprise-wide growth with flexible SaaS, cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment options that scale across facilities and operations.

✔ Integration Capabilities Integrate seamlessly with ERP, supply chain, warehouse, maintenance, quality, and operational technology systems to establish a single source of truth across the enterprise.

What is a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for food and beverage manufacturing?

A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) helps food and beverage companies manage production activities, quality processes, traceability, genealogy, performance monitoring, and manufacturing workflows. Proficy Smart Factory MES helps manufacturers improve quality, production visibility, and operational consistency while supporting food safety initiatives.

How does Proficy Smart Factory MES improve food and beverage manufacturing operations?

Proficy Smart Factory MES digitizes manufacturing processes, tracks production performance, improves traceability, standardizes operational execution, and provides real-time visibility across production lines. This helps food manufacturers improve quality, increase throughput, and respond more effectively to changing production requirements.

How can food and beverage manufacturers reduce waste?

Reducing waste starts with visibility into production processes, ingredient usage, equipment performance, and quality metrics. Connected operational data and advanced analytics help manufacturers identify inefficiencies, reduce scrap, optimize raw material consumption, and improve yields across production lines.

How does Kepware help food and beverage manufacturers?

Kepware connects production equipment, packaging lines, PLCs, SCADA systems, sensors, and enterprise applications into a unified operational data environment. This enables food manufacturers to access trusted real-time production data from both legacy and modern systems without disrupting operations.

How can food and beverage manufacturers improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?

Improving OEE requires visibility into equipment availability, performance, and quality. Connected manufacturing systems provide real-time monitoring, downtime analysis, production reporting, and root-cause insights that help manufacturers optimize equipment utilization and improve operational performance. Food manufacturers using digital manufacturing solutions have achieved measurable OEE improvements through enhanced visibility and analytics.

How does Proficy Historian support food and beverage manufacturing?

Proficy Historian captures and stores high-frequency operational and process data from production equipment and systems. Manufacturers use this historical data to perform root-cause analysis, improve process control, support food safety investigations, optimize production performance, and improve reporting.

How can food and beverage manufacturers improve production agility?

Production agility improves when manufacturers can quickly adapt schedules, recipes, product formulations, packaging configurations, and staffing levels in response to consumer demand or supply chain disruptions. Connected manufacturing systems provide real-time insights that support faster and more informed operational decisions.

How does Proficy Scheduler help food and beverage manufacturers?

Proficy Scheduler helps manufacturers optimize production sequencing, resource allocation, inventory usage, and capacity planning. This reduces changeover time, improves schedule adherence, increases throughput, and enables more responsive manufacturing operations

How can food and beverage manufacturers address labor shortages?

Digital manufacturing solutions help capture institutional knowledge, provide guided workflows, standardize operating procedures, and improve workforce productivity. These capabilities reduce reliance on tribal knowledge and help accelerate onboarding for new operators and plant personnel.

How does ThingWorx support food and beverage manufacturing digital transformation?

ThingWorx connects machines, systems, people, and processes to create a contextualized operational data foundation. Food manufacturers use ThingWorx to gain real-time visibility, improve production monitoring, support connected worker initiatives, optimize assets, and scale industrial AI across operations.

How can industrial AI improve food and beverage manufacturing operations?

Industrial AI helps manufacturers identify production issues sooner, understand root causes faster, and recommend corrective actions before problems impact quality or throughput. By combining operational context, historical data, and analytics, AI enables more predictive and proactive manufacturing operations.

How can food and beverage manufacturers improve sustainability performance?

Food manufacturers can improve sustainability by reducing ingredient waste, optimizing energy consumption, increasing equipment efficiency, minimizing rework, and improving production yields. Connected operational data provides the visibility needed to measure and continuously improve sustainability initiatives.

Can Velotic software integrate with existing food and beverage manufacturing systems?

Yes. Velotic solutions are built on open and interoperable architectures that connect existing equipment, PLCs, SCADA systems, historians, MES platforms, ERP systems, and business applications. This allows manufacturers to modernize operations without replacing critical infrastructure.

Why choose Velotic for food and beverage manufacturing?

Velotic combines Proficy, Kepware, and ThingWorx into a unified industrial software portfolio designed to help food and beverage manufacturers improve quality, optimize production, strengthen traceability, enhance food safety, reduce costs, and scale AI-driven operational intelligence. With more than 8,000 customers globally and deep expertise across process, batch, and packaging operations, Velotic helps manufacturers meet today's operational challenges while building a foundation for future growth.