Smart Packaging & Processing · Digital Thread for Consumer Manufacturing

Every second counts.
Every pack matters.

High-speed lines lose uptime, traceability, and throughput when machines can't talk to each other.

IndX helps packaging, bottling, food, beverage, and tobacco manufacturers turn disconnected production lines into smarter, more adaptive environments. Better interoperability. Real traceability. Measurable OEE gains on the lines that run your business.

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6.6%

Uptime increase from adaptive line control at PMI

4 min

Improvement in MTBF across production lines

45+

Production plants connected for Arca Continental

78%

OEE achieved on packaging lines with SMC enabled

What Is Holding Your Lines Back

The gap between shop floor
and top floor costs you every shift.

Consumer manufacturers running high-speed lines face the same three structural problems. Legacy equipment, reactive operations, and fragmented data compound one another. Each one alone is manageable. Together, they cap your performance ceiling.

Machines That Do Not Talk to Each Other

A heterogeneous machine park with proprietary protocols means your operators are making speed and process decisions on incomplete information. Buffers fill, lines starve, and downtime cascades across machines that have no coordinated response.

Machine Interoperability

Operators Reacting Instead of Controlling

When decisions about machine speed, material flow, and quality depend on visual inspection and manual judgment, you are always one step behind. Lean initiatives reduce buffer sizes. Without smarter controls, smaller buffers mean more frequent stops and lower uptime.

Reactive Operations

Material Traceability That Stops at the Shift Report

Monthly ERP reports tell you what happened. They do not tell you why, and they do not tell you in time to act. Without continuous material data flowing from the shop floor, traceability is compliance theater. Recalls, quality deviations, and root cause investigations become expensive guesswork.

Traceability Gap

The IndX Solution Portfolio

Six capabilities that close the gap between
the machine and the business.

IndX brings together digital manufacturing software, industrial edge computing, and AI-driven line control to address the real operational problems on high-speed consumer production lines. Each capability stands alone. Together, they build a digital thread across your entire operation.

OPC UA Machine Interoperability

Standardize data exchange across your machine park using OPC UA and companion specifications like TMC. Connect legacy equipment and new assets to a single industrial communication backbone without rebuilding your machines.

OPC UATMCGreenfield + Brownfield

OEE and MES Monitoring

Replace disconnected shift reports with real-time OEE dashboards that surface availability, performance, and quality data at the machine, line, and plant level. Continuous improvement starts with seeing what is actually happening.

EngOEEMESSiemens Opcenter

Material Traceability

Track material identity, attributes, and processing history across your production line in real time. Verify material quality against process orders automatically. Eliminate the four-minute manual visual check cycle and the blind spots that cause downstream quality deviations.

Upstream TraceabilityMES Integration

Speed Management Controller

AI-driven adaptive line control that continuously learns from machine uptime patterns, buffer levels, and downtime history to optimize machine speed in real time. Reduce starvation and blocking. Extend mean time between failures. Recover throughput without touching a machine.

AI on EdgeAdaptive ControlPMI Validated

Industrial Edge Computing

Deploy AI models and manufacturing applications directly on the edge, beside the machine. Low-latency compute at the point of action means decisions happen in seconds, not minutes. Secure, containerized workloads with over-the-air updates for continuous improvement at scale.

Siemens EdgeDockerOTA Updates

Digital Twin and Line Simulation

Use Siemens Plant Simulation to model your production line before a single machine is installed or modified. Answer what-if questions about capacity, buffer sizing, and layout changes without physical risk. Design for maximum OEE from day one.

Plant SimulationLine OptimizationDe-risk Design

Real Results · Philip Morris International & Arca Continental

What adaptive control and machine
connectivity deliver in production.

6.6%

Uptime increase on legacy packaging lines

+4 min

MTBF improvement per machine

0.5%

Scrap reduction on controlled lines

1000s

Data points per machine vs. 5 before OPC UA

"With smaller buffers, we had to improve equipment speed-control during failures to keep high uptime. Simply acting based on buffer levels and relying on immediate reaction from our operators would not be enough. We needed smarter controls."

J. Vallee

Manager, Machine Integration & Supervision, Digital Engineering

Philip Morris International

How IndX Works With You

Four steps from disconnected
lines to a working digital thread.

IndX does not hand you a strategy deck and leave. We assess, design, implement, and support. Every engagement ends with running software, connected machines, and measurable performance improvement on your shop floor.

Line and Connectivity Assessment

Map your current machine park, communication protocols, and data architecture. Identify the interoperability gaps and prioritize the use cases with the highest operational impact.

2-4 Weeks

Architecture Design and Simulation

Model your production line in Siemens Plant Simulation. Define the OPC UA communication layer, edge topology, and MES integration points. Validate the design before any physical work begins.

Design Sprint

Implementation and Integration

Deploy OPC UA servers, edge devices, and manufacturing applications. Integrate with your existing ERP and MES systems. Connect both native and legacy equipment using retrofit IoT gateways where needed.

Core Build

AI Training, Go-Live, and Scale

Train the Speed Management Controller on your line's specific downtime patterns. Go live with OEE monitoring, adaptive control, and traceability. Roll out to additional lines and plants with cost-efficient global deployment.

Production + Scale

Who This Is Built For

The right conversation for
the right leader.

VP Manufacturing & Plant Director

Running high-speed lines with legacy equipment and pressure on uptime, throughput, and cost per unit. You need operational results, not another IT initiative. IndX delivers measurable OEE improvement on the lines that matter most.

OEE and Continuous Improvement Leader

You know where the losses are. You see them in the shift reports. The problem is that by the time the data reaches you, the shift is over. Real-time OEE monitoring and AI-driven line control close the loop between insight and action.

CIO and OT-IT Integration Leader

Managing the bridge between operational technology and information technology without a clean interoperability standard is expensive and fragile. OPC UA provides the foundation. IndX builds the architecture on top of it so your teams stop maintaining custom integrations.

Packaging Engineering Leader

Designing and commissioning lines for new products and formats. Digital twin simulation lets you validate buffer sizing, capacity targets, and machine selection before committing to physical hardware. Design for the highest possible OEE from day one.

Operations Director

Accountable for plant performance across multiple lines and sites. Consistent, reliable data from the shop floor is the foundation for every decision you make. IndX builds the data infrastructure that makes plant-wide and enterprise-wide visibility possible.

Digital Manufacturing Leader

Driving the Industry 4.0 agenda inside a manufacturing organization that is skeptical of projects that deliver dashboards but not results. IndX builds on validated architectures from real implementations at global manufacturers, not pilot projects that never scale.

Why IndX

We do not just connect your machines.
We improve your production.

IndX is a global system integrator with proven implementations at some of the world's largest consumer manufacturers. We bring Siemens and SAP expertise, industrial domain knowledge, and a track record of delivery, not consulting theater.

Siemens Certified Partner

Deep expertise across Siemens Opcenter, Industrial Edge, Insights Hub, Plant Simulation, and OPC UA implementations. Not a generalist integrator learning on your timeline and budget.

Consumer Manufacturing Domain Knowledge

We have implemented across packaging, bottling, food and beverage, and tobacco. We understand make-and-pack production, lean buffer environments, and the OEE challenges specific to high-speed consumer lines.

Pre-built Accelerators

The Speed Management Controller is a validated edge application with real production results. OEE dashboards, OPC UA TMC implementations, and ERP integration frameworks are proven components, not starting-from-scratch builds.

Execution-first Delivery Model

IndX assesses, designs, implements, and supports. We embed with your teams. We measure our success by what runs in production, not what gets presented in a strategy workshop. If it does not work on the shop floor, it does not count.

Every second counts. Every pack matters.

The gap between shop floorand top floor costs you every shift.