Brewing Excellence Demands Packaging Precision
From fermentation to final pack, brewery packaging lines face unique pressures — frequent changeovers between brands, CIP cycles that eat into uptime, micro-stops every 12 minutes on average, and tight margins on every case. Navigator gives brewing operations the real-time intelligence to maximise OEE and eliminate hidden losses.
Built for Brewery Packaging
The unique challenges of high-speed beverage lines require purpose-built intelligence.
Ultra-High-Speed Line Monitoring
Filler Performance & Micro-Stop Detection The average brewer can't run their packaging line for more than 12 minutes without a stop. Navigator captures every micro-stop down to 1-second resolution at the filler — the pacemaker of your line — giving you the data to stabilise speed, reduce stoppages, and reclaim hours of lost production each week.
Changeover Time Benchmarking
Fillers take an average of 49+ minutes to changeover between brands. Navigator tracks every changeover by product-to-product transition, identifies best-practice durations, and highlights where SMED techniques can shave minutes off each switch — across shifts, lines, and sites.
CIP Cycle Optimisation
Cleaning-in-place cycles are essential but expensive — consuming water, chemicals, energy, and above all, production time. Navigator tracks actual CIP duration against target, identifies overruns and unnecessary cycles, and helps you reclaim productive hours without compromising hygiene standards.
Line Balancing & Buffer Management
Depalletisers, fillers, labellers, and packers must run in harmony. When one machine starves or blocks the next, OEE drops silently. Navigator monitors inter-machine buffer levels and throughput ratios in real time, pinpointing bottlenecks and imbalances before they cascade into visible downtime.
Multi-Site Brewery Benchmarking
Global brewers need to compare performance across dozens of sites running different equipment. Navigator standardises OEE definitions and reporting across every brewery, enabling like-for-like benchmarking that reveals which sites, lines, and shifts are truly best-in-class — and why.
Results from Brewery Customers
Proven outcomes from leading global brewing operations.
The Modules That Matter Most
Every Navigator module is available, but here's where soft drinks manufacturers see the fastest impact.
Monitor
Real-time OEE, line status, and micro-stop detection across every filler, labeller, and packer.
Review
Shift-by-shift performance analysis, CIP duration tracking, and structured daily reviews.
AMI
AI-driven root cause analysis that pinpoints why your line dropped 4% OEE last Tuesday at 2am.
SmartWorker
Guided operator workflows for changeovers, CIP, and fault resolution on the line.
