Food & Beverage
Diagnosis and design for food production plants with traceability and efficiency requirements: processes, plant data and improvement prioritisation with traceability as the guiding thread of the analysis.
Consulting for food and beverage plants
Food and beverage plants live under two demands that do not always pull together: traceability, which requires recording every batch from raw material to dispatch, and efficiency, which pushes for fewer stoppages and less waste. In many plants traceability rests on paper records and spreadsheets, and efficiency is measured with partial data. Captia Consulting works on this from the analysis and design layer: an operational diagnosis with field work on the lines, process improvement when the problem is the workflow itself, and continuous improvement cycles once reliable data exists.
When the design concludes that lines, scales or management systems must be connected, deployment belongs to the Connect unit, described in connectivity for manufacturing. Captia works from Xàtiva with companies across La Costera, València and the Comunitat Valenciana.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the diagnosis address traceability in a food plant?
- By reconstructing how batch, raw-material and process information is recorded today: what is written by hand, what lives in the ERP and what gets lost along the way. The result is an honest map of where the traceability chain breaks and what it would take to close it, ordered by effort and impact.
- Does the diagnosis interfere with daily production?
- Field work is planned with the plant team so production is not interrupted: observing running lines, interviews outside activity peaks and reviewing existing records. Nothing is installed and no process is modified during the diagnosis phase; the operation is analysed as it is.
- Which efficiency improvements tend to surface in food and beverage plants?
- It depends on each plant, but the diagnosis usually examines format changeovers, losses, records duplicated between paper and system, and dead time between process stages. Prioritisation is done with the plant's own data, not sector averages, and separates process improvements from technology investments.
- What if the conclusion is that plant data capture must be digitalised?
- The diagnosis says so and defines the order. Implementing that connectivity is not Consulting's job: it belongs to Captia's Connect unit, which integrates sensors, lines and management systems into a data layer. The client decides whether to execute with Captia or with third parties.