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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

CUSTOMER STORIES

Improving food safety and quality

CUSTOMER STORIES

Lowering total cost of ownership

CUSTOMER STORIES

Improved sustainability

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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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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.

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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.

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End to end solutions for food and beverages

End to end solutions for food and beverages

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.

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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.

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