Food and Beverage

Make confident Food & Beverage decisions, before committing time, capital, or resources

Predictive simulation builds dynamic virtual models that represent the behaviour of real-life processes.

The fast‑paced food and beverage sector is under constant pressure from increasing demand, stricter safety and nutritional requirements, and evolving consumer trends. To remain competitive, organisations must manage change effectively, and make decisions with speed and confidence.

By creating virtual models of facilities, processes, and operations, Haskoning's Witness predictive simulation software enables teams to safely test multiple “what‑if” scenarios. This delivers detailed operational insight, helping decision‑makers understand risks, evaluate trade‑offs, and make confident decisions faster.

Implement change effectively

With evidence-based plans that highlight the value of change

Make decisions with confidence

Experiment with multiple ‘what-if’ scenarios to find the best solution fast

Optimise production

Streamlining processes, resources and investments

Plan and schedule maintenance

Take a proactive approach to minimise disruption

Will your new line deliver on target – and how will it impact logistics? What’s the best way to coordinate operations across multiple sites to meet peaks in demand? And how can you minimise disruption from maintenance and breakdowns?

User-friendly, flexible and powerful, Witness predictive simulation software provides data and insight to validate decisions in a risk-free environment.

Manage change effectively

To introduce new product mixes or manufacturing lines, develop agility to shifting seasonal demands and gain confidence that new capacity investments will deliver the right results, food and beverage manufacturers require accurate data.

From facilities layout to logistics requirements, scheduling and demand variations, predictive simulation software and digital twins enable experimentation with multiple influences on capacity, performance and processes – giving you an evidence-based plan for growth.

Apples move along a conveyor line in a plant

An operator checks operations at a commercial brewery

Maximise productivity, minimise costs

Searching for ways to optimise production, maximise quality and reduce operating costs? Thinking of digitalising?

Predictive simulation replicates the range and complexity of real-life business problems – providing in-depth insight on everything from large-scale supply chain overhauls to how best to unpack bags of ingredients delivered to your plant.

Connecting with live data systems and enabling robust experimentation, Twinn by Haskoning Witness helps you decide the processes, resources and investments required to eliminate bottlenecks, streamline production and meet targets.

Take a proactive approach to maintenance

In the high-octane food and beverage industry, even tiny delays can have a knock-on effect on the broader production process and supply chain.

With models that incorporate continuous process elements and discrete variable events, predictive simulation helps you streamline changeovers, optimise maintenance programmes, schedule machine cleaning and plan for unexpected breakdowns – minimising disruption to supply chains and logistics.

Conveyors inside a food and beverage plant.

Achieve a competitive advantage

Leverage predictive simulation to respond with agility to changes in consumer demand, shifts in market dynamics and evolving safety guidelines.

Encompassing strategic consultancy, training and support with building models, we partner with leading businesses across the food and beverage sector – helping you keep pace with change, maximise value from investments and stay ahead in changing markets.

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Witness models complex scenarios and delivers exceptional levels of clarity. If your model is well designed, it can effectively be future-proofed to be used again and again over time as a key strategic asset, extending the ROI substantially.

Director of Supply Chain Strategy & Industrial Engineering Mars Chocolate, North America

Witness Simulation Software

User-friendly, flexible and powerful, Witness gives you detailed insights into CapEx, continuous improvement and operational improvements before you invest.

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