Food & Beverage | KCF Technologies

Protect critical assets across your food & beverage operations

01

Ammonia Compressor + -

Ammonia compressor maintenance is strictly regulated by agencies like OSHA. This asset needs to be monitored regularly, but route-based vibration monitoring is expensive and doesn’t tell the whole story.

$10,000/hour downtime cost
4-24 hours downtime, on average
Risk of major health hazard

Ammonia compressors on a production floor.

02

Bottle Filling Lines + -

03

Homogenizers + -

04

Cooling Towers + -

"In our pilot, there were two distinct saves, avoiding about $200,000 worth of downtime—not to mention the impact on production and recovery time."

Rex Hook, Senior Reliability Manager
Anchor Glass

Customer Success Story

"We started working with KCF with a pilot in early 2021 we have since expanded to all of our manufacturing facilities."

Clifton McDonald, Sr. Director of Reliability
RYAM

Customer Success Story

"For me, moving towards data-driven reliability versus rounding or frequency-driven reliability is key. It’s labor savings, it’s uptime, and it lets the equipment tell us when it needs to be serviced."

Rex Hook, Senior Reliability Manager
Anchor Glass

Customer Success Story

"By deploying sensors and optimizing the strategy, they reduced this cost to about $1.8 million, saving roughly $900,000 over three years."

Thom Brotski, CEO
Harrison Group LLC

Customer Success Story

Conveyor belt moves prepared foods through a production operation.

How predictive maintenance works for food and beverage operations

SMARTdiagnostics, the software that powers our comprehensive machine health platform, allows thousands of individual monitoring points on your assets to wirelessly and continuously transmit machine health data to a central cloud database.

SMARTdiagnostics ingests signals from a range of sensor types — including third-party sensors — to detect early fault warning signals that vibration sensors alone won’t catch. Automated analytics capabilities put advanced machine health knowledge in your team’s hands from day one.

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