With the world market for consumer packaged goods industry, including Personal Care products and Food & Beverage (F&B) growing at a rapid pace, companies have to focus on better thermal and process engineering systems, and maximize asset utilization and optimize manufacturing processes to stay ahead of the competition.

Afxisi’ cost-effective and quality-driven engineering solutions can help you enhance performance and meet your business objectives.

Client Challenges

Personal / Home Care Manufacturing

• Forecast demand accurately and timely with respect to dynamic consumer needs
• Improve supply chain efficiencies
• Reduce inventory & shorten cycle times
• Minimize time to market for new product innovations
• Cater to shorter product life cycles
• Cost pressures due to plastic raw material

Food & Beverage Manufacturing

• Food safety/hazards regulation
• Packaging, storing, and logistic challenges for perishable goods
• Environmental concerns
• Globalization (product regionalization and regulatory compliance)

What Afxisi Provides

Plant Design Engineering

• Process engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Instrumentation & control engineering
• Civil / Structural engineering

Plant Automation Services / Process Control and Information Integration

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions based on standards like S88, ISA 95, OAGi etc.
• Requirement analysis and defining functional and system requirements
• System development and package customization
• Integration with ERP, SCM, PLM, LIMS and control systems
• MES system re-engineering and enhancements
• Development of data acquisition, process control application, embedded engineering
• Development of monitoring and control HMI/user interface .Net, J2EE or other web technologies
• Integrating & interfacing control system components
• Developing controllers for the process/ plant equipment
• Integrating process control applications, process applications with MES/ERP
• Remote monitoring and diagnostics of the process

Product development services - Rigid plastic packaging

• Concept design including styling
• Detailed product design
• Design validation
• Mold design
• Molding process optimization

Vendor Management

• Process/ equipment validation, vendor evaluations, inspection and ongoing assessments

Procurement Management Service

• Preparation of Bid Documents (e.g. Layout for food processing plant)
• Tech-commercial evaluation of bids

Business Value

• Reduced engineering support cost up to 30% through design standardization and design automation
• Reduction in “time to build” up to 20% by leveraging global design environment under PLM
• Operational efficiency by low cost sourcing and reverse engineering (plant expansion - plant machinery and equipment)