AVEVA Honoured with Frost & Sullivan 2020 Product Leadership Award

AVEVA has been presented with the Frost and Sullivan Product Leadership Award for its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Food and Beverage (F&B). According to the company, this best practice award is awarded to companies that consolidate or grow their leadership position by continuously innovating and creating new products and solutions that serve the evolving needs of their customers.

The industrial software provider was recognised for its success in enabling F&B manufacturers to digitally transform their operations to achieve higher productivity and enhanced manufacturing flexibility and quality while shrinking regulatory compliance costs in a complex environment.

“AVEVA supports manufacturing execution capabilities with its agnostic system platform, bringing state-of-the-art technologies, such as edge, cloud, machine learning, OPC-UA and the InTouch operations management interface to drive operational agility, responsiveness, and collaboration,” said Ram Ramasamy, Global Client Leader at Frost & Sullivan.

Refering to AVEVA’s approach as ‘customer centric’, the report states that AVEVA offers a model driven MES solution that combines the traditional advantages of an MES with a new digital workflow management approach to integrate people, processes, and businesses. The company was also given recognition for delivering enhanced efficiency, capturing work procedures in digital workflows and relevant user experience models in contrast to competitors in this space that provide only standalone MES software.

The unique selling point of the solution is its out-of-the-box connectors for both plant and enterprise applications, which provide greater flexibility to customers in terms of integrating the MES into their entire business, according to the company. While competitors’ platforms are designed to integrate only with their proprietary systems, the AVEVA System Platform is vendor-agnostic, working with any competitor’s programmable logic controller (PLC), remote terminal unit (RTU), programmable automation controllers, IIoT devices and general IT applications.

Also mentioned in the report, AVEVA Connect allows clients to connect and optimise existing operations with advanced capabilities in the cloud – removing organisational silos. Furthermore, the ability to connect with automated manufacturing processes and integrate with asset performance management software or third-party applications, allows customers to achieve end-to-end process management and to standardise processes across the enterprise.

For several years, the company has been delivering a multi-site MES value proposition to the F&B market to digitalise manufacturing activities and integrate them with both ERP and automation systems. The Best Practices Award further highlights that AVEVA enables users to achieve the maximum level of automation, consistency of operational tasks, and collaboration across diverse teams.  Its model driven MES approach is based on the digitalisation of operational processes, KPIs and reporting with sustainable reusability as a template and for governance of change across a multi-site enterprise. This standardisation approach allows for rapid multi-plant optimisation and lays the foundation for the optimisation of the manufacturing value chain and for more agile, resilient businesses.

Ramasamy added, “The cloud is inevitable in today’s context, but it needs to co-exist with the edge. As customers start pivoting from site-level monitoring to fleet-level monitoring, the thirst for centralized applications has become unquenchable. Driven by forces such as an ageing workforce, resource efficiency requirements, and value-chain collaboration, AVEVA Connect brings together cross-functional teams, assets, and an end-to-end (E2E) view of the operations landscape.”

“This award highlights AVEVA’s leading edge in the global industrial F&B software market,” said Harpreet Gulati, SVP, Planning & Operations Business Unit at AVEVA. “Frost & Sullivan’s recognition of the value of our MES offering is a great testament to AVEVA’s work in the sector. Amid a volatile and dynamic macro environment, AVEVA is committed to helping organisations optimise their value chain and streamline their businesses through digital transformation.”