Industries
Core focusOperational intelligence for food and beverage plants.
Food and beverage is PlantIQ’s core beachhead. These plants already generate rich process, utility, and production data, but the decision layer between systems and people is often missing.
PlantIQ helps F&B teams see live operations, reconstruct thermal and sanitation cycles, quantify yield and waste, manage utility intensity, and prioritize equipment attention with evidence.
Built for real F&B operating reality
Brownfield dairy, beverage, bakery/snacks, and general food processing environments rarely need another rip-and-replace platform. They need a reusable operational model that connects existing PLCs, SCADA, historians, meters, and production context to the decisions plant teams actually make.
PlantIQ focuses on process areas where visibility, loss, utilities, and reliability compound: pasteurization and thermal processes, preparation and blending, CIP, filling and packaging, refrigeration, and plant utilities.
What teams typically need to decide
F&B leaders are rarely short on data points. They are short on a shared, trusted view of what changed, what it cost, and what to do next.
- Did this pasteurization or CIP cycle run as expected?
- Where did yield, waste, giveaway, or downtime concentrate this week?
- Which refrigeration, steam, or compressed-air patterns are inflating intensity or peaks?
- Which pumps, motors, or utility assets deserve maintenance attention first?
Solution overlays on the F&B process flow
Plant Visibility & Traceability supports live and historical views for lines, tanks, thermal processes, and CIP.
Production Loss & Margin Intelligence connects input, good output, waste, and approved cost assumptions.
Utilities & Energy Intelligence normalizes electricity, gas, water, steam, refrigeration, and compressed air against production.
Reliability & Asset Intelligence, optionally with Managed Intelligence, helps prioritize rotating equipment and utility assets with evidence.
Honest fit and data expectations
Credible F&B analytics depend on the signals and production context that actually exist. Yield views need output and, ideally, input and reject measures. Intensity views need meters plus production normalization. Traceability quality depends on phase markers and trusted tags.
PlantIQ starts with one high-value plant decision, validates the calculation logic with operations and finance, and expands on the same operational model.
Focus areas
Where this industry applies
Practical starting points and process areas with clear operational decisions.
Dairy
Pasteurization, tanks, CIP, filling, refrigeration, and utility-intensive cold-chain support processes.
Beverage and juice
Blend/prep, thermal treatment, filling, packaging waste, and utilities tied to production output.
Bakery / snacks
Where line visibility, waste, downtime, and utilities create a practical first deployment.
General food processing
Preparation, thermal processes, packaging, pumps/motors, and plant utility systems.
Pasteurization and thermal processes
Live state, phase duration, deviation markers, and historical run traceability.
CIP and sanitation cycles
Cycle chronology, duration, utility consumption context, and investigation support.
Filling and packaging
Throughput, giveaway/overfill where measured, packaging waste, and run comparison.
Refrigeration, boilers, steam, air, and water
Utility intensity, peaks, idle load, and system-level opportunity review.
Related solutions
Solution families that commonly apply
Next step
Start with one F&B decision worth improving.
Bring a pasteurization line, CIP system, yield problem, refrigeration load, audit-record need, or critical pump set. We will assess available data and define a focused first deployment.