Control Systems Integration

For Food + Beverage and Life Sciences Manufacturing Facilities

Achieve operational readiness with fully integrated control systems.

Integrated teams, integrated controls systems.

Don’t leave consideration for the technical integration of your manufacturing process systems and equipment until later in your project. This increases the risk of schedule delays and costly workarounds. Instead, working with control systems integration experts who understand the industry and are plugged into your project’s design and construction teams from the start ensures you’re making optimal equipment and systems selections, addressing gaps before they happen, circumventing long-lead times or supply chain issues, and setting your process and facility up for operational readiness on time. This is our end-to-end support of your project.

How can CRB help you?

Leverage the expertise, experience, and deep industry relationships of our Control Systems Integration consultants on your next project to give you deeper insight, more advanced automation capabilities, and opportunities for better process and facilities management. We guide you through all phases of integration:

Making initial decisions about what technology and equipment your facility needs, who can best deliver those solutions, and how those systems work together
Anticipating and solving challenges with innovative solutions before equipment is even manufactured
Collaborating across teams, including with trade partners, to identify all problems and possibilities with your project plans to pave the way for smoother execution
Ensuring that systems and equipment are in place, fully functional and commissioned on schedule.

Meet the Team

Our Control Systems Integration team at CRB has the consulting expertise and experience to understand how decisions during conception and design can impact a facility throughout the years.

Jim Vortherms, Senior Director of Automation Delivery, helps clients use and manage data to make smarter manufacturing and equipment decisions. Frequently involved in a project from start to finish, he plays a major role in the scope of work development, scheduling, resource allocation, budget management, and business development support.

Jerry Steenhoek, Senior Director of Automation Technology, enhances CRB’s project delivery by leveraging his automation expertise from early process design through start-up. He has spearheaded development and systems integration teams throughout his career across all project phases, including high-level design, detail design, development, commissioning, and start-up.

Technology and automation should help your facility run more efficiently. Putting those pieces in place shouldn’t slow you down. Our Control Systems Integration services make it easier.

Let’s transform the way your facility performs.

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What we do:

Alternative Proteins

Baking+ Snack

Beverage

Confectionery

Dairy

Dressings + Sauces

Food + Beverage

Food Safety

Ingredients

Nutrition

Packaging

Pet Food

Ready-to-eat

Grow your process, grow your facility, get ahead.

Whether you’re producing plant-based proteins, scaling cultured meat or developing precision fermentation ingredients, innovation is a top priority to develop flavorful and viable products. You need scalable and flexible solutions to achieve speed to market while also meeting shifting consumer preferences and evolving regulatory requirements. With experts in both food and science, we help you navigate the new and ever-changing alternative proteins landscape.

Maximize Ingredients. Minimize Waste. Boost Efficiency.

In an industry where every penny counts, making the most of your resources is essential. Data-driven solutions help you optimize ingredients, streamline processes, and enhance facility performance—saving money without compromising quality. Whether you’re building new or upgrading an existing facility, our team uncovers hidden opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and drive profitability.

Designing every step for quality, efficiency, and growth.

From ingredient intake and essence recovery to packaging and warehousing, streamline every aspect of your beverage manufacturing process. Clean design solutions and a flexible facility ensure you can adapt to changing consumer demands while maintaining the highest standards of safety and performance.

Controlled environments designed and built to produce high-quality confections.

Your confectionery process relies on the right conditions. You need assurance that your facility and process integrate optimally with MEP to control temperature, humidity and more. Design, build and optimize your confectionery manufacturing facility with a multidisciplinary team that collaborates on every aspect of your project.

Dairy products for every demand.

From fortified products to shelf-stable applications, expectations are shifting in the dairy industry. No matter the form, you need a facility that ensures safe, high-quality production while optimizing efficiency. Comprehensive expertise in processing, cleaning, refrigeration, and packaging is essential to designing, constructing, and optimizing your dairy operation for success.

Keep your process clean; keep it moving.

Product left behind in your equipment is not just lost profits; it’s a food safety risk. The right process design and sanitation program will ensure your dressing and sauces are produced safely and efficiently. Employ cutting-edge hygienic design techniques to achieve “clean label” designations while building flexibility into your lines for rapid, high-quality production of multiple products.

Fuel your growth and success.

Scale up a small process or expand and improve a large-scale operation. No matter your size or goals, you need an adaptable facility that quickly responds to consumers’ constantly changing tastes and meets increasingly strict regulatory standards. Get design, construction and consulting solutions to improve and optimize your production.

Safe food starts with a clean, compliant facility.

Delivering safe, high-quality food is about more than meeting regulations—it’s about protecting your customers and your brand. Food safety consulting can enhance your product and streamline your processes. A proactive approach to food safety keeps your facility ahead of evolving standards and consumer expectations.

Satisfy end-users with quality, compliant ingredients.

From basic safety standards to elevated clean label requirements, the bar for ingredients is set higher than ever. Your process and facility design needs to be adaptable to meet the moving target of your industry. Success in the ingredients market requires more than just great design and construction—it demands expertise in ingredient processing itself. Get a solution designed not just for your needs, but with a deep understanding of your end-users’ expectations.

Optimal and flexible nutritional product manufacturing.

Nutrition products take many forms, and your facility must be ready to adapt. Driven by consumer demand, imagine your production adapting quickly and efficiently to changing wants. It’s possible to have quick line changeovers and versatile packaging operations while also meeting the most stringent food safety regulations. We’ll help you create the facility that works optimally for you now – and in the future.

Packaging that protects, performs and drives profitability.

Your business relies on packaging that protects products and draws consumers’ attention, enabled by a packaging process that runs optimally and consistently. Smart packaging engineering helps optimize production lines, improve material selection, and streamline operations. Our experts provide packaging equipment design, material consulting, staff augmentation, and production optimization to turn your ideas into reality and position your products for success.

Get products to market faster than consumer tastes change.

As pet food trends evolve quickly, speed to market is paramount. This is made more difficult by the advanced processing technologies and complex regulations now involved in pet food production. Ensure your facility is efficient, flexible, and built to the highest safety standards with help from experts in a variety of food processing technologies.

Clean, safe, and ready to deliver.

Food safety and quality are non-negotiable in the ready-to-eat market. It requires highly sanitary facility design and construction, and attention to everything from airflows to personnel movements. Get a tailored solution for your unique project, and consistent product quality you and your consumers can trust.