With the new focus on food safety and traceability as well as how organizations handle these issues, food and beverage processors have much to learn from their counterparts in industries like high-tech, automotive and the life sciences, says the study. In these four major KPIs, the food and beverage industry lags noticeably behind middle performers.
For example, best-in-class performers (the top 20 percent) of all industries achieve 99 percent production compliance, 89 percent OEE scores, 98 percent on-time and complete shipments and four hours response time to non-conforming shipments. Industry average performers (all industries) achieve 97 percent production compliance, 77 percent OEE, 94 percent on-time and complete shipments and 16 hours response time to non-conforming shipments. However, food and beverage processors achieve 92 percent production compliance, 73 percent OEE, 88 percent on-time and complete shipments and 18 hours response time to non-conforming shipments, according to the study. See the graph (right).