The future starts now

It appears to be THE revolution of the 21st century: digitalisation. In actuality, however, the quest for more effective production has been preoccupying the food and beverage industries for decades.

Digitalisation at Krones

Only when all business processes along the entire value added chain are digitalised can flexibility, efficiency and results be significantly upgraded.

Connected HMI – the machine operator’s platform

Simple, flexible, dependable: with the new Connected HMI platform, Krones has set a new benchmark in terms of technology, usability and harmonisation.

The Bottling on Demand concept study is tasked with re-exploring the limits of flexibility. Because Bottling on Demand denotes an ultra-flexible line that at the touch of a button fills PET containers differently, dresses them individually, provides them with a personalised RFID code and assembles them into mixed pallets directly at the line.

Automated product change-over with LineXpress

LineXpress is a programme that enables non-returnable-PET lines for water or carbonated soft drinks to be changed over in record time: a brief interruption – and your line is ready for action again.

Share2Act collaboration platform

Share2Act is a collaboration platform for the food and beverage industries. It networks all the people, machines and IT systems involved in the production operations with each other.

Digital Krones Academy

If machine malfunctions occur while the line is running, you have to know immediately what to do. And with the Digital Krones Academy this is child’s play. Because it’s the central location at which food and beverage producers can manage the entire training documentation for their lines.

Steinecker MicroCube

Brewing system for small batches

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Dynamic fermentation with Poseidon

In order to meet the breweries’ present-day requirements, fermentation processes can and must be optimised. Krones has accordingly first formulated a system concept for a continuous fermentation process, and on this basis then developed a process for dynamic fermentation.

Phoebus membrane filtration system

In order to create an alternative to classical precoating filtration, Krones has developed its Phoebus membrane filtration system.

Evoguard’s ESL valve series

In the new ESL valve series, Evoguard has replaced the stem seal by a newly developed sealing system for the ESL-seat and -double-seat valves.

The brewing power station

Brewnomic

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Experts on everything to do with the white gold

Dairy competence at Krones

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Filling

Increasing the speed, downsizing the footprint, and improving the filling quality – these and numerous other advantages have been incorporated in the new and designenhanced products for Krones’ filling and block-synchronised systems.

Innovative filling system Dynafill

The Dynafill performs filling and crowning in a single functional unit – and needs only five seconds for it. It can safely be claimed that the Dynafill concept is revolutionising beer bottling.

PFR valves

Increasing filler outputs, saving energy and media, and quite incidentally also upgrading the filling quality and product safety – what sounds like a beverage producer’s dream is now reality, thanks to the advent of the PFR valves (PFR = Proportional Flow Regulator).

Modulfill VFS-M filling system with synchronised mixer with PFR valves

Time is money – that is the motto for the new Modulfill VFS-M with PFR valves. Not only the duration of the filling process, but also the air consumption and space requirement have been reduced – which is also easy on your budget.

Modulfill Bloc FS-C filler-seamer block

This is definitely something new: for the first time, beverage producers can buy from Krones an all-in-one solution for filling and seaming cans. This block is, of course, packed full of Krones’ know-how coupled with state-of-the-art technology.

ErgoBloc LM wet-end block

Block-synchronised systems belong in the realms of high-speed production? That may once have been true. But meanwhile block technology has progressed so far that it is commercially viable even for medium output quantities. A claim cogently validated by the ErgoBloc LM, a block specifically conceived for bottling still water.

Aseptic filling systems

Renamed for more transparency: As of now, all our aseptic filling systems are divided into two major categories. The determinant factor here is the phase of the filling process in which sterilisation takes place.

Kosme: integrated process unit

When several machines share a control cabinet, a control panel and a valve rack, then this primarily means one thing: substantial savings in terms of energy, wastewater, time – and ultimately, of course, costs as well.

Labelling

Not every new era announces itself with a fanfare of trumpets. Sometimes, it’s the major changes, in particular, that arrive almost unnoticed. As has been the case with Krones’ labelling technology. Unobtrusively, it has re-invented itself completely over recent years.

DecoType Select direct printing machine

A pioneering technology now enters series production: at the last drinktec Krones exhibited a prototype of the DecoType family, and meanwhile the digital direct printing machine has attained product maturity. At this year’s fair, DecoType Select will now be demonstrating what it can do – and that’s quite a lot.

EM Series

The new generation of labellers supplements our field-proven technology and sets new standards in terms of operator-convenience and maintenance-friendliness. So logically enough it bears the abbreviation “EM” for “Ergonomic Model”.

Linatronic 735 empty-bottle inspector

When it comes to inspecting empty containers, the Linatronic 735 has quite a bit of experience to draw on. This inspector has been a fixed constituent of Krones’ product family for many years now, and has proven its dependability at beverage plants all over the world.

Packaging

For the brewing and beverage industries, flexibility for end-of-the-line packaging is gaining steadily in perceived importance. The kit concerned is frequently tasked with placing individual containers (the primary packages) first of all in easy-to-handle secondary multipacks, after which these are then provided with an appropriate tertiary outer package. In order to meet highly disparate requirements for the design and the sturdiness of the package concerned, clients want maximised flexibility for change-over procedures.

Robobox T grouping system

In order to meet the requirement for progressively faster lines coupled with a continually reduced footprint, the familiar Robobox grouping system has been radically design-enhanced, with the field-proven gantry being replaced by parallel kinematics.

Modulpal Pro 2ADP single column palletiser

The motorised centring function for the layer on the loading plate ensures that the Modulpal Pro 2ADP operates with high precision and produces accurate layers even at very high speeds. Thanks to its low-level infeed, the palletiser is easy to access; platforms or other climbing aids are not needed.

Varioline packaging system

The Krones Varioline is the combination artist among the packaging lines. This flexible system processes more than 20 packaging combinations in one machine.

Stretch-wrapper Dynastretch

Simple, cost-reducing, up-to-the-future: the Dynastretch results from Krones’ long years of experience in packaging technology – and is way out in front in terms of energy-economy and flexibility.

Intralogistics

Modular Order Picking System

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Lifecycle Service

Profitability, customised solutions and an efficient, cost-saving, dependable production operation – these are naturally enough at the top of the wish list for all food and beverage producers.

Krones.shop

Meanwhile, around 9,000 clients all over the world are using the options provided for purchasing Krones parts, and/or to access expanded information, purchase products from subsidiaries, or register for courses at the Krones Academy, all of it directly from their laptops or mobile terminals.

Pricing strategy

Krones has taken a long hard look at its prices for spare parts, and revised its fundamental strategy.

Material Management Coach

As his title implies, the Material Management Coach is a professional specialist in everything to do with material handling: together with the client, he analyses inventories, defines new strategies, optimises ordering procedures, and shares some tips and tricks on how to make daily work routines even simpler.

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