REAPING THE BENEFITS OF THE ‘DIGITAL SAUSAGE FACTORY’

Investment in cutting edge technology, including industry-specific software from food and drink IT specialist CSB-System, has enabled leading Austrian sausage producer Wiesbauer to be at the forefront of the development of the smart food factory.

When the company’s facility in Vienna was conceived more than 20 years ago, all the major factors for a smart factory were taken into account during the planning stage. They included paperless information processing, automatic production and
logistics processes, intelligent material flow control, and networking with other company locations

A strategically important part of this was the integration of all processes into one software system.

The design of the factory ensures a highly automated and therefore fast process flow from cutting to production. Movement of hanging meat to the cutting lines is carried out automatically using CSB software. The meat cuts are placed in E3 crates and transported to the high-bay meat warehouse in accordance with information from Recipe Management. On their way, scanners at strategic information points read the crate barcodes including the crate number, weight excluding tare, item number and batch number as well as the destination defined in the CSB-System.

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