Gebo Cermex Agility 4.0 Advanced Production Systems for beverage manufacturing

Gebo Cermex has released the Agility 4.0 Advanced Production Systems program for beverage manufacturing plants.

The program increases performance via four steps in its asset management model: design, build, maintain and improve.

In design, the company brings the virtual factory, enabling it to accurately simulate daily operations in a production plant, and develop and test new production models.

In the build step, the energy consumption simulation tool can be used to audit existing installations or to assist in the design of new ones, enabling beverage producers to test a wide range of possible configurations, validate design variants and optimise energy-saving proposals.

Focusing on water management, particularly in relation to tunnel equipment such as pasteurisers, is also an important part of the sustainability equation.

To maintain systems, and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership, effective and connected maintenance and troubleshooting help to reduce downtime. The conveyor monitoring software gives real-time views of the whole line’s status, providing preventive maintenance instructions and automatically generating email alerts.

Remote Video Assistance uses video, audio and augmented reality technology to allow a better understanding of the issue through real-time viewing from a remote location.

To improve efficiency, the packaging line Efficiency Improvement Tool is a real-time supervision system, monitoring key machine performance indicators, product flows and accumulations, as well as consumptions. The tool handles production issues to meet ongoing challenges and also anticipates them through trends and forecasts based on historical and multiplant analysis.