Industry 4.0: How Tetra Pak Is Adapting To Digital Manufacturing

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E xpected to deliver $500bn in value by 2022, smart factories are now an integral part of
the manufacturing industry’s fourth industrial revolution: Industry 4.0.
However, in the food and beverage industry, adoption of Industry 4.0 has been on the slow side, with only
48% of manufacturers considering themselves ready for Industry 4.0, according to a survey by McKinsey.
One company pushing to keep up with the pace of change is Tetra Pak.
Launched in 1951, the company is best known for the manufacture of
food and drinks packaging as well as food processing.
However, despite its established position in the industry, the company

is embracing change. Verdict visited Tetra Pak HQ in Lund, Sweden, to
find out how the packaging giant is preparing for the digitisation of
manufacturing.
What is Industry 4.0?
Put simply, Industry 4.0 refers to the current trend of incorporating a greater level of automation and data
exchange in manufacturing technologies.
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Nitin Chaudhary director of strategy and planning at Tetra Pak

explains that for Tetra Pak, Industry 4.0 can be broken down into nine
innovative technologies:
“Industry 4.0 is based on nine foundation technologies. Big data

analytics and artificial intelligence; advanced robotics and augmented
reality – tools such as hololens; system integration and industrial IoTs;
simulation, additive manufacturing [3D printing] and cybersecurity.”
Adoption in the food industry has been slow
Although the concept of Industry 4.0 is by no means a new one, the food and beverage industry is yet to
fully realise its benefits, with other sectors noticeably more advanced in this area. Chaudhary explains that
although adoption has begun, it has been comparatively slow in the industry:
“Retail is far more advanced in using consumer data for targeting customers and driving sales.
Automotive and oil and gas are further ahead when it comes to using automation to improve
productivity. Agriculture is also a little bit ahead of food and beverage when it comes to adoption of
such technologies.
“We believe that food and beverage is yet to fully pick up and benefit from Industry 4.0. But that will
have to change, and it will have to change now because a lot of food and beverage producers are
facing a new reality.”
Meeting consumer demands
With the food and beverage industry increasingly affected by the move towards e-commerce,
manufacturers are looking to optimise production, and in turn cut costs, more than ever. Tetra Pak has
been somewhat ahead of this curve, introducing laser guided vehicles to customer Vinamilk’s factories in
Vietnam. These are designed to reduce human error and keep up with the rapid demands of e-commerce.
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Chaudhary explains that adoption of smart technologies is key for keeping up with the needs of the
modern consumer, helping to achieve the greater levels of personalisation and convenience expected from
today’s manufacturers:

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channels. We want to know where our food is coming from, is it organically produced, or is there any
fairtrade involved? These demands are getting transferred to retailers, and from retailers to food and
beverage producers. The regulation around food safety and quality is becoming more and more strict
and that will only continue.”
Earlier this year, Tetra Pak issued its own whitepaper on the impact of Industry 4.0, and how it intends to
make its operating systems smarter. With the aim of increasing productivity and reducing costs, a number
of new technologies are being rolled out: sensors have been installed on pieces of equipment through its
packaging line monitoring system PLMS Centre, autonomous vehicles are increasingly present in factories,
and cloud-based predictive maintenance have made it possible to act before things go wrong.
Greater connectivity
Earlier this month, the company launched Tetra Pak Plant Secure, a plant management system that offers
profitability improvements for customers by identifying opportunities across the customer’s entire
operation through the analysis of data gathered through audits. Moving forward, the company intends this
to be a key component of its Industry 4.0 strategy.
Pilot projects have been carried out in the Americas and in Europe, and are already delivering results. One
Americas-based dairy producer reduced operational costs by more than 10% in the first year of
implementation.
Mattias Johansson, director of automation services at Tetra Pak believes that the data generated by smart
technologies has made this possible:
“Plant Secure is about optimising and reducing material waste and time. To do that you need data,
which is collected automatically, so with technologies from Industry 4.0 you have more data, but you
also have solutions later on to address the bottlenecks or the areas that you identify as problems.”
Another initiative launched by the company is called Collaboration Space, connecting not just equipment,
but people too:
“How to optimise collaboration between people is a new opportunity with Industry 4.0. This one that
we have called Collaboration Space is actually designed based on a problem a customer had about
communication between people in different areas of the factory. The people in one part [of the factory]
didn’t know when something occurred elsewhere, which meant they didn’t take the right action at that
time, causing long delays or problems later on. So here we designed an application where you can
basically get the information you need when you need it.”
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in its factories to enable maintenance work to be carried out remotely. Through this, Johansson believes
that unplanned downtime can be reduced:
“Imagine there is a breakdown somewhere, let’s say in the outskirts of Indonesia, now you could
either wait for the expert to show up, which could take anywhere between 24 to 48 hours, or you could
enable the system engineers there to interact with experts in real-time using devices [like hololens].”
As well as responding to errors when they occur, predictive maintenance means that it is possible to
respond to problems before they escalate. Chaudhary explains:
“By using predictive measurements like putting sensors on equipment measuring temperature,
vibration and millions of other data points, we are able to predict failures before they happen, thereby
avoiding these downtimes.”
However, rather than innovating for innovation’s sake, Chaudhary believes that the company is firmly
focused on utilising the technology to addressing real problems and deliver real results:
“We firmly believe that any such technology is a wasted investment if they do not lead to a tangible
outcome. So it’s very important to understand what is a starting point, and what kind of outcome can
we derive from the use of these technologies.”
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Industry 4.0: How Tetra Pak is adapting to digital manufacturing

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By Ellen Daniel (https://www.verdict.co.uk/author/ellendaniel/)

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However, despite its established position in the industry, the company

What is Industry 4.0?

Nitin Chaudhary director of strategy and planning at Tetra Pak

“Industry 4.0 is based on nine foundation technologies. Big data

Adoption in the food industry has been slow

Meeting consumer demands

3 Things That Will Change the World Today

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