Food manufacturers rely on operational flexibility to meet changing consumer trends, improved quality standards, increased safety demands and ever-present cost and efficiency challenges. Hosokawa Gen4 smart systems by Hosokawa Micron Ltd deliver tangible business benefits for food and beverage manufacturing customers.
Batch production methods typically involve multi-process production cycles – including energy intensive drying, mixing and milling, heating and cooling operations.
Hosokawa Gen4 helps customers to better understand and manage the many complex technology and process interactions, so they can get the best from their production, particularly when it is integrated into high-performance Hosokawa Micron processing equipment.
A Complete Solution for Intelligent Food and Beverage Processing
Food processing batch production methods lend themselves to lean manufacturing and other continuous improvement methodologies, such as KAIZEN™, and can benefit from the associated Big Data Analysis.
Hosokawa Gen4’s technical and practical outputs enable a more agile response to food and beverage production demands, ensure quality standards are met through less product variation and effectively manage energy costs, making plant operations increasingly competitive in today’s market.
The unique technology can be integrated into our portfolio of high-performance containment and processing equipment for food and beverage manufacturing, while Hosokawa Micron’s in-process, dry powder particle size analysis and characterisation equipment can also be an integral part of Hosokawa Gen4’s intelligent monitoring and advanced control systems and is ideally suited to closed system manufacturing practices.
Hosokawa Gen4 offers a number of benefits that can help the food and beverage industry, such as:
- Increasing product yield and consistency
- Reducing the risk of downtime
- Improving plant availability
- Enabling reliable and accurate scale-up
- Integrating dynamic smart alerts for process and safety purposes
- Supporting process validation, audit trails and batch information
- Reducing waste and increasing energy efficiency
- Offering the latest performance equipment and analysis software
- Supporting and enhancing lean manufacturing and continuous improvement strategies
