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Tetra Pak® PlantMaster: Leading-edge automation for the food and beverage industry

In today's fast-paced food and beverage industry, smart operations are essential for maintaining high standards of quality, efficiency, and sustainability while achieving a lower total cost of ownership. Tetra Pak® PlantMaster combines our industry expertise with the latest in automation from our technology partners to address your unique challenges.

Tetra Pak® PlantMaster is a flexible, scalable, and modular solution based on a continuously evolving ecosystem of hardware and software specifically designed for the food and beverage industry. It empowers you to enhance your everyday decision-making by giving you full control of your data, with in-context insights available 24/7.

You can start small or digitalise your entire operation across all your sites, regardless of your current automation level or the equipment you use. And security and reliability are ensured thanks to data collection, storage, and secure management in accordance with industry cybersecurity standards (IEC-62443) and best practices.

Tetra Pak® PlantMaster worldwide

+1,250

installed solutions
in more than 100 countries.

Up to 20%

higher Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)*
through optimised production processes and advanced automation solutions.

700

skilled engineers and digital specialists &

Remote Support

at your service worldwide.

Everything you need in one system

Listen to Sean Sims, our Vice President of Food Industry Automation and Digital Solutions, as he shares how you can get the most out of your production with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster.  

Everything you need in one system

Listen to Sean Sims, our Vice President of Food Industry Automation and Digital Solutions, as he shares how you can get the most out of your production with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster.  

Our automation portfolio

Implement solutions at your own pace and your chosen scale, from the basic level of reliable and robust production to operational excellence, through our three tiers of automation and digitalisation.

Get validated and proven performance, alongside a secure platform for further improvements, through automation solutions for your processing and packaging equipment.

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Embedded automation

Improve your decision making and empower your operators with embedded software that delivers real-time, actionable insights through a clear, intuitive interface – and gives you access to our extensive food and beverage expertise.
Learn more about embedded automation⁠
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Tetra Pak® Digital Core

Make better, data-based decisions by seamlessly and securely collecting data from all your plant – including Tetra Pak and third-party equipment, with a cost-effective, device-agnostic gateway product.
Learn more about Tetra Pak Digital Core⁠
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Production control

Accelerate your time to market and get the end-to-end perspective you need to improve food safety and product quality thanks to smart integration that continuously monitors critical parameters with digitalised, real-time, accurate data.
Learn more about production control⁠

Make your factory as efficient as possible, and operate with minimal resourcing and world-class food safety, by orchestrating data from your equipment.

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Packaging Line Monitoring System (PLMS)

Packaging Line Monitoring System (PLMS)

Make better, more informed decisions with a database system that stores and displays all performance data and process parameters, integrates with your plant automation systems, and connects to your business systems.
Learn more about Packaging Line Monitoring System⁠
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Quality Data Management System (QDMS)

Quality Data Management System (QDMS)

Minimise the risk of human error with automated, guided quality sampling and digitalised data collection tailored to each of your packaging lines, from production and incubation to warehousing and customer and retailer complaints.
Learn more about Quality Data Management System⁠
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Production Integrator – MES System

Production Integrator – MES System

Get the right information at the right time with contextualised data delivered in an easy-to-understand format and actionable insights from customisable plant reports visualising your day-to-day operations.
Learn more about Production Integrator – MES System ⁠
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Aveva MES solution

Aveva MES solution

Ensure continuity and quality with a software pack of ready-made solutions for food and beverage production. The reusable solution library delivers the efficiency and simplicity of a single standard across your whole operation.
Learn more about Aveva MES solution⁠
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Aveva work tasks

Aveva work tasks

Reduce your training needs, and ensure fewer costly delays and mistakes, with a system integrator kit that acts like a virtual assistant, automatically guiding operators through their daily tasks and triggering routines in line with your Standard Operating Procedures.
Learn more about Aveva work tasks⁠
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Material control

Material control

Save operator time, reduce errors, and minimise waste and rework from using the wrong materials with a unique tool that offers operators a guided list of materials to prepare based on production schedules and alerts them if incorrect materials are scanned.
Learn more about Material control⁠

Make confident, informed decisions about everything from raw materials to product shipment thanks to data analysis and clearly presented, actionable insights in decision support tools.

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Performance portal

Turn your data into actionable insights with this configurable reporting and dashboard tool. Customisable to reflect your business needs, it delivers clear, intuitive charts and graphs that enable data-driven decision making.
Learn more about Performance Portal ⁠
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Automation upgrades

Automation upgrades

Improve the performance of your existing equipment with Tetra Pak® Upgrades. These can include predefined products, retrofitted kits, or customised solutions that help you improve food safety, optimise performance, reduce your resource consumption, and boost capacity.
Learn more about automation upgrades⁠
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Asset Health Monitoring

Asset Health Monitoring

Monitoring your assets provides you more data, which gives you greater knowledge – and therefore benefits your operations. How? By giving you the insights to take the right decisions and actions based on your specific operating conditions.
Learn more about Asset Health Monitoring⁠
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Connected Workforce

Connected Workforce

Reduce your labour costs and close the skills gap by empowering your operators with the knowledge, skills, and understanding they need. Tailored to your business, this intuitive system for training and information sharing lets you upload your materials to facilitate communication within your plant and achieve a smarter workforce.
Learn more about Connected workforce⁠
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Remote Support

Remote Support

Minimise your production downtime, disruption, and costs, with Remote Support. This modern, flexible solution delivers consistency, world-class 24/7 support, and innovate, industry-leading innovations, giving you peace of mind wherever you’re based.
Learn more about Remote Support⁠

CUSTOMER STORIES

Improving food safety and quality

Operators at DenEast

Smart automation drives quality, efficiency and control

Smart automation drives quality, efficiency and control

DenEast, a fast-growing contract manufacturer in Southeast Asia, set out to establish a production setup that could ensure reliability, flexibility, and high quality to meet the expectations of global and local brands. As a co-packer, transparency in the operations is paramount. With Tetra Pak® PlantMaster at the core of their operations, they can provide all their customers with detailed production reports for each batch produced.
Read about the automation solution⁠
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Capturing greater market share with automation

Capturing greater market share with automation

It’s not easy establishing a new brand in a highly competitive market, but automation helped Hayatna, a new dairy and beverage brand, stand out from the crowd. A new, fully automated plant delivered the reliability, consistency, and traceability required to accelerate the development of their product portfolio.
Read more about turn key solutions ⁠
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Gain control over your operations with automated mixing

Gain control over your operations with automated mixing

By creating a fully automated mixing setup, a Spanish mayonnaise and sauce producer improved overall food safety and quality while reducing product losses. Together, we created a solution that delivered real-time information about their production processes, reducing their dependence on operators and increasing their line’s productivity.
Read more about automated mixing⁠
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Visualising CIP operations for resource efficiency

Visualising CIP operations for resource efficiency

Reducing CIP costs was the aim of a Brazilian fermented milk product producer. By visualising their CIP operations with a unique, customised digital dashboard that delivered full visibility, we helped them reduce operational costs by 30%. But that was just the start – the solution also ensured improved food safety and quality, a reduced environmental impact, and reduced equipment downtime.
Read more about digital visualisation solutions ⁠
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Full automation and advanced mixing solutions deliver quality

Full automation and advanced mixing solutions deliver quality

Improved quality was the goal of Salsa Rica, Spain’s leading mayonnaise manufacturer for the food service market. But thanks to a fully automated and advanced mixing solution, the company also achieved safer, more hygienic production, faster production, improved accuracy, reduced staff costs, and the flexibility required to expand their brand and unlock new market potential.
Read more about fully automated solutions⁠
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Increase capacity – with built-in flexibility and traceability

Increase capacity – with built-in flexibility and traceability

When a milk and whey-based powder producer required increased capacity, replacements for old equipment, and the flexibility required for variations in incoming raw material, we built them the largest processing plant we’ve ever created. The result? Streamlined daily production with full traceability throughout the new plant, and the ability to easily adapt to meet varying market and customer demands.
Read more about fully automated plants⁠

CUSTOMER STORIES

Lowering total cost of ownership

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Take efficiency to a new level with automation

Take efficiency to a new level with automation

Megval, one of Greece’s biggest dairies, unlocked new levels of efficiency by updating their automation with a comprehensive solution based on Tetra Pak® PlantMaster. By providing visibility into plant operations and reliable production data, the solution delivered valuable insights that ultimately boosted their profitability – and will ensure long-term benefits as well.
Read more about efficiency and automation ⁠
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Empower your workforce with digitalisation

Empower your workforce with digitalisation

A customised digital platform that automatically captures and visualises production performance data achieved higher operator engagement and better performance for one large US dairy producer. This helped them understand the cause of performance issues on their filling lines – our performance dashboard meant they gained better visibility of the entire line’s operation and spent 85% less time collecting information.
Read more about line performance analysis ⁠
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The benefits of integrated plant management

The benefits of integrated plant management

By automating all operations in their plant in Brasov, Romania, Hellenic Dairies virtually eliminated errors, enhanced productivity, and delivered significant cost savings. Our solution involved automating virtually all end-of-line and warehouse operations, software that gave instant access to feedback and information, and the total integration and synchronisation of all operations from the finished goods department to logistics.
Read more about integrating your plant ⁠
Customised automated distribution solutions at Tine

Customisation delivers success

Customisation delivers success

With a customised version of Tetra Pak® PlantMaster alongside customised equipment powering TINE’s new state-of-the-art plant in Bergen, Norway, they achieved efficiency levels over the target of 96%, together with very low levels of product loss and waste. Full automation means the risk of production stops due to human error has been reduced to almost nil, and the system is future-proofed, with the capacity to scale up or down as needed.
Read more about customisation and automation ⁠

CUSTOMER STORIES

Improved sustainability

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The benefits of a lighthouse factory

The benefits of a lighthouse factory

By building the world’s first fully intelligent dairy factory with a complete end-to-end solution, Chinese producer Mengniu has set new production efficiency standards in dairy production. Packaging efficiency is up 67%, energy consumption is down 23%, space utilisation is down 37%, and Mengniu has seen a striking 32% reduction in conversion cost and a 20-fold increase in workforce efficiency.
Read more about the lighthouse factory ⁠
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How advanced automation helped Oatly grow

How advanced automation helped Oatly grow

By implementing Tetra Pak® PlantMaster at all their production sites, Oatly was able to ramp up their oat milk production capacity and create an efficient, global factory setup while ensuring the highest food quality, the lowest cost per unit produced, and the minimum possible consumption of water and energy. They also achieved a shorter time to market.
Read more about advanced automation and efficiency ⁠
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Efficiency and sustainability with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster

Efficiency and sustainability with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster

When a dairy in northern Europe needed a fully automated new plant with full traceability that integrated equipment from several different suppliers, they turned to us. The result – a customised Tetra Pak® PlantMaster solution that is fully automated, flexible and future-proofed – is much improved production capacity at what is now the most efficient and sustainable dairy in northern Europe.
Read more about efficient production with Tetra Pak PlantMaster⁠
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Increased profitability with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster

Increased profitability with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster

A complete Tetra Pak® PlantMaster integration solution for processing, packaging, and ERP gave one juice, nectar and still drinks producer increased capacity, efficiency and profitability. A completely automated factory ensured a simplified, streamlined, and optimised operation that delivered numerous benefits throughout the entire production process in addition to lower costs.
Read more about increased profitability with Tetra Pak PlantMaster⁠

Discover how automation helps your business

Expert advice

#1 See improvement from day one

Discover solutions that will drive your success. Whatever you’re producing and wherever you are on your digitalisation journey, we have the knowledge and expertise to ensure you get the best out of your production.

Expert advice

#2 Ensure food safety and quality

Achieve the food safety and quality that will help you respond to ever-changing market demands and legislation by staying in control of your process stability and repeatability.

Expert advice

#3 Reduce your operational costs

Lower your costs by combining automation and data collection with world-class manufacturing methodologies – automated plants have a better OEE than those with no or low automation.

Expert advice

#4 Make better decisions

Make reliable, fact-based decisions and continuous improvements thanks to real-time input and insights that give you the right information at the right time.

Expert advice

#5 Empower your workforce

Attract and retain operators, and ensure their safety, thanks to a modern, automated plant and connectivity – giving you both reliability and peace of mind.

Expert advice

#6 Improve your sustainability results

Use fewer resources – and reduce your waste – by allowing automation to plan the most efficient production schedule, ensuring you have less downtime and less environmental impact.

Expert advice

#7 Upgrade your legacy systems

Ensure you upgrade at the right time – and with the right solution – by understanding what signs to look out for, and problems that obsolete and out-of-date automation can cause.

Expert advice

#8 Drive improvements with benchmarking

Get a better overview of your whole operation – and enable benchmarking between all your production sites – with a future-proofed solution that standardises and structures data in the same way.

Stories and insights

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Enhance your food safety & quality with connectivity

Enhance your food safety & quality with connectivity

Learn how to meet increasing demands for greater food safety and quality from consumers, retailers, regulators, and shareholders, mitigate your risk, and transform your operations, through the value of connectivity and food data.
Find out more and download the white paper⁠
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Get started on your connectivity journey

Get started on your connectivity journey

Implementing automation and digital solutions needn’t involve sweeping changes. Discover how starting small and connecting key areas first can pave the way for later opportunities, and ensure your digitalisation journey delivers success.
Find out more and download the white paper⁠
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Make the most of your data

Make the most of your data

Lots of data can be good, but is it high-quality, and do you know what to do with it? Empower all levels of your workforce to make better decisions with solutions that collect, visualise, and centralise data – giving them the knowledge to consistently drive results.
Learn more about data⁠
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Maximise your plant’s efficiency with Smart Material Handling

Maximise your plant’s efficiency with Smart Material Handling

Get full plant efficiency by automating and integrating your production and logistics. Our end-to-end solution combines the equipment and software required to automate and integrate the flow of goods and data in your plant, from raw material intake to final product dispatch. Start unlocking the full potential of your operations with Smart Material Handling solutions.
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Comparative study shows benefits of automation

Comparative study shows benefits of automation

Read report How automation improves efficiency, quality and waste” and learn how automation solutions can cut waste and lower defect rates while boosting overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Find out more and download report⁠
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Digital solutions for ice cream

Digital solutions for ice cream

Numerous factors make ice cream production a difficult process. Our tailored digital solutions will help you succeed at lower cost and with higher profits.
Learn more about digital solutions for ice cream⁠⁠

Explore our other solutions

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Food industry automation and digital solutions

Food industry automation and digital solutions

Make better everyday decisions, every day, with leading-edge automation and digital solutions designed for the food and beverage industry.
Learn more about food industry automation and digital solutions⁠
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Connected packaging

Connected packaging

Give your products a digital life with Tetra Pak® Connected Package. It will help you boost sales, enhance engagement and get to know your consumers better.
Learn more about connected packaging solutions⁠
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Solutions

Solutions

The integrated edge enables us to support you with all your end-to-end needs – all the way from food sources to final delivery to consumers.
Read more about our full value chain offer⁠
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Rethinking resources

Rethinking resources

Discover our solutions that reduce energy, water, and waste in your food & beverage production, lowering your costs and maximising your efficiency.
Learn more about rethinking resources⁠

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* Comparative study "How automation improves efficiency, quality and waste"