Industry challenges
Food and beverage operations need reliable assets and efficient processes that support workers and teams in ensuring food safety, audit readiness, and shifting demand. Three pressures show up across many lines.
Compliance and changing demands
Food and beverage producers need to adapt quickly while keeping production controlled and evidence ready. Sanitation, allergen changeovers, and calibration sit on top of normal maintenance work, and getting one of them wrong can increase recall and audit risk.
Ultimo helps teams connect maintenance, operations, safety, quality, and compliance workflows with structured data capture, so evidence is easier to maintain before an inspector asks for it.
Costly downtime
Outdated processes, weak collaboration, and poor data quality can drive unplanned downtime that affects throughput directly.
Ultimo supports proactive maintenance with embedded- AI guidance that helps teams identify asset needs earlier, act on shared data, and keep more assets available for production.
Siloed data and communication
Running at peak production requires strong collaboration across safety, operations, and maintenance. When teams don't work from the same data source, reliability suffers and decisions slow down.
Ultimo’s standardized processes and integrations help teams share knowledge across functions and shifts. Cross-departmental Power BI dashboards keep stakeholders working from the same asset data.
Covering every stage
Ultimo's intelligent asset management is enterprise asset management (EAM) built for food and beverage. It covers every stage of the asset lifecycle, from monitoring and maintenance to continuous improvement across production, packaging, and cold-chain equipment. The result is one connected system that improves uptime, strengthens food safety evidence, and keeps operational performance under control.
Food safety governed inside your EAM
HACCP, FSMA, BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000, GMP, FDA, and ISO demand clear evidence: monitored critical control points, calibrated equipment, recorded cleaning and changeovers, and audit trails. Ultimo brings food and beverage workflows inside your EAM, so sanitation, calibration, maintenance, and HSE work orders follow the plant's rhythm. Every asset carries a full lifecycle record: calibration certificates, work history, parts traceability, and HSE workflows such as Lockout/Tagout.
Maximized asset uptime
Better data helps teams act earlier. Ultimo gives maintenance and reliability teams a clearer view of asset condition, work history, inspection findings, and risk.
Artificial intelligence helps planners prioritize the maintenance that protects throughput, while standardized workflows help teams execute more consistently. Critical human intelligence can then be focused where they create the most value: improving asset availability, reducing avoidable disruption, and supporting safer operations.
Unmatched time to value
With the right scope and commitment, Ultimo customers move from decision to go-live in months, not years. Templated food and beverage solutions build in decades of operational best practice, so teams start with industry depth rather than a blank canvas. The Ultimo Configuration Tool lets you tailor your EAM — manage users, authorizations, screens, dashboards and integrations — without expensive consultants or custom development. Enterprise breadth. Faster time to value.
Control over maintenance execution
Ultimo helps food and beverage producers structurally capture maintenance, calibration, sanitation, and HSE data, supporting audit readiness for standards such as HACCP, GMP, BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000, and ISO.
Customer stories:Ultimo in action
Dr. Schär
Giant food manufacturer Dr. Schär transformed its global production by revolutionizing their maintenance management across 12 production sites with Ultimo EAM software.
Bahlsen
Bahlsen, Europe’s top sweet biscuit producer, is adopting preventive maintenance with Ultimo, with a cross-site rollout in the works.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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EAM in food and beverage is enterprise asset management tailored to the production, packaging, and cold-chain equipment the industry runs on.
It supports preventive and proactive maintenance, hygiene inspections, allergen and changeover workflows, calibration evidence, and equipment availability. EAM helps manufacturers protect throughput, reduce avoidable downtime, and support audit readiness for standards such as HACCP, BRC, IFS, FSMA, and FDA expectations.
With Ultimo, that intelligence is embedded in everyday work rather than managed through disconnected tools.
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ERP runs core business processes such as finance, procurement, HR, and order management.
EAM runs physical asset processes such as maintenance, inspections, reliability, calibration, and compliance-related workflows. ERP is primarily focused on business transactions and financial control. EAM is focused on asset condition, work execution, and operational performance.
In asset-intensive organizations, the two typically work together rather than replacing one another. Ultimo interfaces with ERP systems, including certified SAP S/4HANA integration.
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A general maintenance system rarely mirrors how a plant floor actually operates. Food and beverage teams run sanitation, allergen changeovers, calibration, and traceability as part of daily production, not as separate paperwork, so the workflows have to match that reality. Ulimo built these processes into the EAM itself, with industry-specific workflows, role-based learning paths, and structured data capture that keep sanitation, calibration, proactive maintenance, and HSE work orders moving at the pace of the line.
Customers such as Dr. Schär and Bahlsen use Ultimo to support maintenance improvement across food manufacturing operations.
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Food and beverage producers often need to maintain evidence for standards and expectations such as HACCP, FSMA, BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000, GMP, FDA, and ISO.
Ultimo helps support audit readiness by connecting asset records, calibration certificates, tolerance bands, work history, parts traceability, sanitation activity, and HSE workflows such as Lockout/Tagout and Incident Management. Power BI dashboards give Quality, Operations, Maintenance, and HSE a clearer shared view of asset and workflow evidence.