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§ Industry · 12

Food manufacturing: uptime, under sanitary discipline.

Food manufacturers run mixed continuous and batch lines under sanitary design and GMP discipline. Droz applies vibration analysis, thermography, and ultrasound to the rotating equipment that drives these lines — without compromising the sanitary boundary. Reference client: PepsiCo.

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Asset focus
Continuous & batch lines
Key disciplines
Vibration · Thermography · Ultrasound · Alignment
Standards
GMP · ISO 9001 · ISO 10816
Reference client
PepsiCo
§ Operating context

Why downtime is brutal here.

Food plants run to retail-supply commitments where a shift of downtime equals lost shelves.

  • Shelf commitments. Lost throughput drops fill rate; retailers chargeback aggressively.
  • Sanitary boundary. Reliability work must respect wash-down, FAT, and allergen-control protocols.
  • Cold-chain integrity. Refrigeration trips threaten product quality and food-safety records.
  • High SKU mix. Frequent changeovers compound the cost of every condition-related slowdown.
§ Disciplines

Disciplines we apply.

DSC · 01

Vibration analysis

Process pumps, refrigeration compressors, mixers, conveyors.
DSC · 02

Thermography

Switchgear, MCCs, refrigeration system surveys.
DSC · 03

Ultrasound

Leak detection on compressed-air and sanitary systems.
DSC · 04

Laser alignment

Drive-train alignment on critical packaging and process loops.
§ Assets addressed

Assets we monitor.

DZ-A · Rotating equipment

Line rotating fleet

Pumps · refrigeration · mixers

  • PumpsTrended
  • Refrigeration compressorsTrended
  • Mixers · blendersTrended
  • Conveyors · fansTrended
DZ-B · Static equipment

Process boundaries

HX · tanks · pasteurizers

  • Heat exchangersInsp.
  • Mixing tanksInsp.
  • SterilizersInsp.
  • PasteurizersInsp.
DZ-C · Electrical & controls

Switchyard & controls

Switchgear · drives · MCCs

  • SwitchgearIR scan
  • MCCsIR scan
  • Refrigeration drivesTrended
  • PLCs · SCADAIntegrated
DZ-D · Production lines

Mixed food lines

Continuous · batch · packaging

  • Continuous food linesTrained
  • Batch food linesTrained
  • Primary packagingTrained
  • Secondary packagingTrained
§ Standards

Standards we operate under.

GMP
Good Manufacturing Practice
ISO 9001
Quality system
ISO 10816
Vibration severity
Vibration Institute
Cat. I–IV
§ Software layer

Software services for this industry.

SW · 01

AI & Machine Learning Systems

Packaging-line downtime root-cause models tuned to high-mix SKUs.
SW · 02

Business Process Automation

Shift-change reporting and OEE rollups.
SW · 03

Reliability Data Platform

Cross-plant condition history with sanitary-context annotation.
§ Engagements

Case studies.

CS · 01

Engagement case studies forthcoming

PepsiCo engagement summary will be published once cleared by marketing. Anonymized program outcomes appear in the case-studies index.

CS · 02

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