Augos Factory / Industries / Food, beverage and milling
Filling, bottling, baking and milling lines
The allocated time is 170 minutes. Your line's record says 134.
Cleaning, flavour and pack changes, waits for syrup, preforms or flour, and hundreds of interruptions (short stops) a day. Augos Factory times each one against its allocated time and your own best.
From R4,950 per line per month, ex VAT
Allocatedthe time the plant allows for one CIP cycle
Typicalthe median cycle on this line
Recommendedthe line's own best, median less MAD
Each ring runs to three hours. Recommended is the median less the median absolute deviation, from 82 cycles.
Augos platform, Planned Stoppage Analysis · one anonymised beverage line · four months in 2026 · site, products and people removed.
Where food and beverage lines lose time
Four losses this industry knows well.
Cleaning and CIP
Each cycle timed against its allocated time and the line's recommended time.
Flavour and pack changes
Every changeover split into its allocated time and its overrun, per changeover reason.
Waits for material
Syrup, preforms, labels, flour: recorded as their own loss, with their root in the reason tree.
Interruptions
Jams and blocked infeeds under the threshold, counted by the sensor without an operator code.
One month on one beverage line
Three losses, three different fixes.
Breakdowns sit with the technicians who took the calls, from the call to the restart. Waits for material sit with the operators logged in, and the reason tree shows whether the material was on site or had not arrived. Interruptions are an account of their own, traced to the operator and product.
One line · one month
Measured251.6 h to win backfrom 720 paid hours, by who can win them back, biggest first
The other 468.4 paid hours are not itemised here.
Breakdowns
99.2 h
13.78% of paid time · 417 events
→ The technicians who took the callsRaw-material waits
97.8 h
13.58% of paid time
→ The operators logged in; the reason tree shows supplyInterruptions
54.6 h
7.58% of paid time · 13,260 events
→ Their own account, traced to operator and productAugos platform, Production Timesheet · one anonymised beverage line · one month in 2026 · site, products and people removed.
What the CIP overruns could be worth
Estimate what the time past the line's own best is worth.
The hours are measured. The rand figure is your own estimate: pick a value close to what an hour of net production earns your line.
An hour of net production, as examples. How to estimate it ›
CIP time above the recommended time, your own estimate
Hours measured · example valueR30,420
16.9 hours above the recommended 134 minutes over 24 cycles in one month, your own estimate at an example R1,800 an hour of net production
Augos platform, Planned Stoppage Analysis · one anonymised beverage line · one month in 2026. The platform shows the hours; the rand figure is your own estimate at an example value. Time already spent is a measure of the gap, not money in the bank.
Where to start
Three losses, three different jobs.
1 · Cleaning
Repeat the line's own best
The line's recommended CIP time is 134 minutes, against a 170-minute allocated time. Setting the allocated time is planning's call. Keeping to it is the line's.
Who acts: planning, then the line team
2 · Material waits
Find where the material was
97.8 hours in one month. On site but not at the line is production's to recover. Not yet delivered is supply's.
Who acts: production or supply
3 · Interruptions
Count what no one logs
13,260 stops under the threshold in one month, 54.6 hours. The sensor times them without an operator code.
Who acts: the line team, with maintenance
Built for the floor
Made for a wash-down floor.
The Augos Operator Terminal sits in a sealed stainless-steel enclosure beside the operator. The count sensor mounts outside the product zone.
Recreated screen of the Augos Operator Terminal on demo data.
Resource intensity, an optional extra
What an idle line still draws.
Augos platform, energy per unit · one anonymised metered line · one period in 2026 · site, products and people removed. Resource intensity ›
Case studies
Two plants like yours.
Questions
Food and beverage, answered.
Does the kit meet food-safety and hygiene requirements?
The terminal sits in a sealed, food-grade 304 stainless-steel enclosure designed to IP65, for −20 °C to +50 °C and 5 to 95% humidity, non-condensing. The count sensor is chosen for the area, up to IP69K for wash-down, and mounts outside the product zone.
Do we have to connect to our PLCs?
No. One sensor on the bottleneck sees every stop. Nothing is read from your PLC or SCADA.
Can we track CIP separately from changeovers?
Yes. Each is its own planned stop with its own allocated time, so overruns show separately.
Our packhouse runs in seasons. Do we pay all year?
No. Fruit packhouses, wineries and other seasonal plants can pause a line between seasons for R350 per month, ex VAT. The sensor and terminal stay mounted and the record carries over. Each line runs at least three months a year at the full R4,950. Pricing ›
Do you work with milling and baking as well as beverages?
Yes. Augos measures flour mills and bakery lines as well as beverage lines. Any line with a bottleneck a sensor can see fits.
See every CIP and changeover against your own best.
Thirty minutes with a manufacturing specialist who knows filling, baking and milling lines.
- Cleaning, changeovers, waits and interruptions, side by side
- A rand value on each
- Prices in rand, ex VAT
A manufacturing specialist replies within two business hours to set a 30-minute call.