Food & Beverage | KCF Technologies

Protect critical assets across your food & beverage operations

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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 + -

Any delays at the filling step can impact production all the way down the line. Bottle filling lines contain a number of different assets and components, making it difficult to assess the overall health of the line.

Up to $40,000/hour downtime cost
4-12 hours to repair or replace parts

03

Homogenizers + -

These critical assets can be difficult to maintain, as homogenizers are often inaccessible due to guarding and have to process ever-changing mixes that impact their operating conditions.

$3,000/hour downtime cost
4-8 hours to repair or replace parts

04

Cooling Towers + -

Multiple production processes can be shut down when a cooling tower can no longer efficiently dissipate excess heat. Rising temperatures threaten product integrity, adding the price of spoilage to the total cost of a failure event.

$1,000/hour downtime cost
$50,000 in equipment costs per failure
Upwards of $100,000 in cost savings for one failure avoidance

"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

How Anchor Glass is Leading the Way

The future of reliability

At Anchor Glass, staying up and running 24/7 is critical. That’s why Senior Reliability Manager Rex Hook is shifting from traditional maintenance to a data-driven approach—reducing unplanned downtime, improving safety, and making reliability more proactive.

Watch to learn how predictive maintenance is transforming the glass manufacturing industry.

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Case Study Spotlight

Glass packaging leader uncovers hidden faults

How Anchor Glass reduced critical failures with KCF’s predictive maintenance trial.

Glass packaging leader builds momentum in just 30 days.

When Anchor Glass’s Warner Robins, Georgia plant engaged in KCF Technologies’ pilot program, they weren’t just looking for another maintenance tool—they wanted proof of a smarter, more proactive way to protect critical assets. And that’s exactly what they got.

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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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$ 4 Billion+

in customer savings

85,000

hours of downtime prevented

1.2 Billion

data points per month

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