Nisthora for food and beverage packaging and bottling.
Bottling and packing lines are the most common place OEE is used anywhere. Nisthora measures each machine on the line and the line as a whole, so you can see which machine is holding the others back.
What gets in the way.
One slow machine slows the line
A labeller that keeps jamming starves the packer and blocks the filler.
Frequent changeovers
Flavours, sizes and labels change many times a day.
Lot traceability by law
Food and drink rules require lot codes you can trace.
What Nisthora connects to and measures.
Machines
- Fillers
- Cappers and seamers
- Labellers
- Case packers
- Palletisers
- Checkweighers and inspection
Readings
- Bottles or packs per minute
- Run / stop / starved / blocked
- Rejected units
- Fill level and weight
- Line speed
- Energy and compressed air
Typical stop reasons
- Size or flavour changeover
- Label jam
- No bottles / no caps
- Blocked downstream
- Cleaning
- Quality check
These are common examples. Each plant names its own machines and lines, and sets up its own stop reasons, in the words its team uses.
Batch, legally required
Food traceability rules, such as FSMA 204 in the US and Regulation 178/2002 in the EU, require lot codes. Nisthora's batch records link each lot to its line, shift, readings and stops.
A day with Nisthora
A bottling line shows each machine's OEE side by side. The filler looks slow, but its stops are tapped as Blocked downstream. The real problem is the labeller, which the line view makes plain.
Example for illustration.
Built for plants like yours.
Live OEE per line
Availability, performance and quality for every line, live.
Tap-only machine panel
Operators press Start and Stop, and tap a picture for the stop reason.
Downtime Pareto
The few stop reasons that cost the most, sorted for you.
Maintenance forecast
Which line needs maintenance in the next 30 days, and why.
Anomaly detection
Flags readings that look unusual for that line.
Alerts
Limits on any reading, sent in-app, by email, SMS, push or webhook.
Root cause and fishbone
Find why a problem keeps coming back, and prove the fix.
Works with your PLCs
OPC UA, Modbus, Siemens S7, EtherNet/IP, MQTT and HTTP.
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