Premium Products Deserve Precision Packaging
Wine and spirits bottling lines handle high-value liquid, complex multi-SKU operations, and strict traceability and labelling compliance across global markets. Navigator delivers the visibility to protect quality, reduce giveaway, and maximise throughput — without compromising the standards your brand demands.
Built for Wine & Spirits
The unique demands of premium beverage packaging require purpose-built intelligence.
Multi-SKU & Label Compliance Tracking
With hundreds of SKUs across vintages, markets, and label variants, packaging errors are costly and brand-damaging. Navigator tracks every product changeover, monitors labelling accuracy rates, and provides full traceability from bottling run to finished case — meeting compliance requirements across EU, US, and global markets.
Fill Accuracy & Giveaway Control
When the product in every bottle is worth significantly more per litre than soft drinks or beer, overfill giveaway hits margins hard. Navigator monitors fill-level trends across heads, shifts, and runs — helping you tighten tolerances, reduce giveaway, and protect margins on premium liquid without risking underfill compliance.
Changeover Excellence for Short Runs
Spirits bottling often involves frequent changeovers between bottle shapes, closures, and labels — sometimes dozens per day. Navigator benchmarks every changeover by transition type, identifies best-practice durations, and guides operators through standardised procedures to minimise downtime between runs.
ABV & Quality Assurance Visibility
Alcohol by volume (ABV) accuracy, closure integrity, and fill consistency are non-negotiable quality parameters. Navigator connects in-line quality data to packaging performance metrics, enabling you to correlate reject spikes with specific machine settings, product changes, or environmental conditions in real time.
Warehouse & End-of-Line Throughput
From bottling to palletising and warehouse dispatch, end-of-line operations often become the hidden bottleneck. Navigator provides visibility across the entire pack-to-ship workflow, identifying where cases queue, where palletisers stall, and where dispatch scheduling can be optimised to meet retailer delivery windows.
Results from Wine & Spirits Customers
Proven outcomes from leading distillers and wine producers.
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.
Analyse
Deep-dive into changeover trends, speed loss patterns, and shift-by-shift benchmarking.
AMI
AI-driven root cause analysis that pinpoints why your line dropped 4% OEE last Tuesday at 2am.
