In today's fast-paced food production environment, staying competitive means doing more than just keeping up — it means getting ahead. Handtmann Digital Solutions (HDS) is designed to help you do exactly that. With a powerful suite of smart, connected technologies, HDS enables food processors to unlock efficiency, reduce waste, minimize downtime, and make data-driven decisions that boost profitability, all while meeting the highest standards of quality, traceability, and compliance.
DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
Processing, Simply Smarter
From Data to Decisions
Handtmann Digital Solutions empower your team with real-time insights into every stage of production. By connecting equipment, capturing key performance data, and alerting your operators to deviations instantly, you gain the control and visibility needed to optimize every shift, every line, and every batch.
Smarter Planning & Monitoring
Digital control tools provide a transparent view of process performance and batch consistency.
Fewer Surprises, More Control
Predictive analytics and smart alerts enable your team to respond before issues turn into downtime or waste.
Consistency That Pays Off
With precision-based automation and real-time weight control, you can dramatically reduce product giveaway and ensure uniform quality. Portion by portion, batch by batch.
A Foundation for the Future
Whether you're optimizing a single process or orchestrating a fully digital plant, Handtmann Digital Solutions adapts to your needs. Modular, secure, and designed for integration, it’s a future-ready investment that supports agility and operational excellence across your business.
- Ensure traceability and compliance
- Eliminate paper-based documentation
- Enable centralized control and decision-making
- Maximize asset utilization
- Turn performance data into actionable insights
The Results Speak for Themselves
One global meat processor reduced finished product giveaway by 46.8% using Handtmann Digital Solutions. Another safely eliminated 59% of overages they didn’t know were possible to control. This is more than incremental improvement, it’s transformational performance.
We reduced finished product giveaway by an average of 46.8%
Why Digitize Now?
Because the future of food processing is already here...and it's digital.
With Handtmann, you're not just upgrading your equipment. You're transforming your operation with an intelligent system that’s as flexible as it is powerful. The result? Smarter processes, stronger margins, and a more resilient business.
HDS - HANDTMANN DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
OPTIMIZE
Maximize equipment and reduce downtime by capturing optimal data from automated weight control, simplicity of management production issues, and best practice comparisons.
UP TO DATE
Features include the process parameter monitoring with automated alerts, data acquisition and analysis tools, secure cloud-based remote access and streamlined production planning.
INTUITIVE
Gram-exact portion-by-portion weights, detailed product usage information and other data in real-time lets line supervisors catch low performance issues immediately with an intuitive tool for data-based best practice process improvement.
Our Digital Solutions
Production outputs in real time, weight optimisation and increased Overall Equipment Effectiveness. The leading software solution for filling & portioning lines and supports as an intelligent Control instrument for documentation, analysis, optimization and planning of production processes.
The new Handtmann Machine Cockpit connects Handtmann filling and portioning systems with the Handtmann Cloud. Important information such as operating hours, pressure curves, error messages and machine status are continuously stored in the Cloud.
The Handtmann Data Interface (HDI) provides standardised interfaces for easy communication with data processing systems. You can easily integrate defined data either directly from the machine via the WS Food interface or by accessing the data via the OPC-UA for WS Food interface.
Modern production lines are becoming increasingly complex. After the production of formed products, for example, they often need to be inserted directly into the packaging without any further manual intervention. To simplify this process, Handtmann Line Control (HLC) offers real-time status monitoring and automatic program changeover of the entire production line directly via the vacuum filler control system.
The production of clipped products requires maximum portioning performance. In the past, finding the optimum parameter setting between the filling and clipping machine was often a challenge. With the patented Intelligent Filler Clipper interface (IFC interface), this setting process has been significantly simplified.
Based on product information such as weight, length, casing type, etc. the Machine Setup Assistant (MSA) automatically proposes equipment options and parameter setting for the machines. The machine control system thus provides optimum support for new or inexperienced Operators.
Rejects are often only discovered after completion of the product. The delay between filling process and quality control may also result in a large and correspondingly expensive quantity of rejects. The Handtmann Monitoring Function (HMF) indicates already during production when parameters are outside the permissible range. This helps optimising your economic Efficiency.
Our forming systems offer almost unlimited possibilities for product differentiation through innovative trend products. The visualisation of the product shape instead on the machine control system renders setting the products child’s play.
The Handtmann Function Module (HFM) makes it possible: numerous software functions can be subsequently activated, easily and in line with requirements. And the absolute highlight is that the filling capacity of scalable VF 800 models can increase with your requirements – the patented concept of the scalable filling machine ensures maximum adaptability and considerable cost advantages.
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