Faster Product Changeovers

The Hidden Costs of Every Changeover

Through every changeover cycle, good product, residual in your pipes and equipment, gets dumped while your filler waits for “safe to fill” conditions. Those losses quickly accumulate across lines and shifts, impacting yields and margins, particularly with rising raw material costs.

The problem with changeovers is that there is an inherent loss of productivity while your automation switches from one SKU to the next. The luxury of running just a single SKU on a line is changing fast with more recent market demands.

Agility is a key to managing schedules, especially when SKU counts increase and your customers demand shorter batches with greater variety. Meeting your production goals and keeping up with demand is a fine balancing act.

Precise, Productive, Agile Changeovers

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More Fillable Product, Less Loss

Our Changeover & Product Loss Prevention models pinpoint safe cutover at the head and tail of the process, advising the PLC to bottle good product (with rising input costs) and not flush it down the drain.

Faster Changeovers, More Productivity

Not only are you lowering your product loss and saving on input costs, but our Changeover AI Agent is precise in switching your SKUs efficiently, allowing the process to run 15% to 20% faster. Every minute saved is a minute of extra filling time, resulting in more product shipped per shift.

Run an Agile Factory

Take on the challenge of running smaller batches to meet your customers' demands. With our Changeover AI Agent, you can be assured that you are running the fastest possible changeovers with minimal product loss. Gain over 20% speed and get more operational agility.

Run the best version of your CIP every cycle

Laminar’s spectral sensors build unique spectral signatures within sub-seconds. Our ML models instantly advise the PLC to take the right action.

Easy to install and integrate into your PLC/SCADA and network, the solution is designed to be up and running within days, reporting efficiency and cost savings in real-time on our Insights platform.

Faster Cycles, Lower Costs

Our patented Spectral Sensors build unique spectral signatures for every fuild passing through your pipes.

They continuously monitor your fluids and recommend action to your PLC at the precise moment needed.

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Water

Reclaim Production Time

A global beverage company reclaimed an average of 25% time from each process cycle. Learn how in our case study.

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Ready to Autonomously Optimize Product Changeovers?

Talk to our team to see how we can help you reduce waste, recover product, and increase uptime across your factory with out added resources or overhead.

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