Regal Rexnord Premium Services: Driving efficiency in the beverage industry

At the heart of the offering is the ability to instantly access a full component breakdown and health status through a dedicated portal or mobile app. This is achieved through a detailed reliability audit, which involves a comprehensive inspection of the conveyor line carried out during a planned shutdown. During the survey, Regal Rexnord Reliability Engineers identify every conveyor asset, chains, belts, sprockets, and curves, tagging them with QR codes linked to a central database. This proactive approach enables data-driven maintenance and planning, allowing drinks manufacturers to budget for replacements and avoid sudden breakdowns.

Evaluating crucial equipment

Critical asset evaluations are another cornerstone of Regal Rexnord’s Premium Services, focusing on crucial individual machines like pasteurizers. These evaluations help detect wear in vital components, such as plastic pasteurizer belts, which degrade due to high temperatures and chemical exposure. Testing belt modules from the production line in its lab to monitor brittleness and strength over time provides operators with clear predictions on remaining belt life, allowing timely, cost-effective replacements before a failure causes unexpected downtime.

For lines already in operation, performance optimization services identify bottlenecks, misalignments, or transfer inefficiencies that could affect the smooth flow of cans or bottles. Regal Rexnord experts assess conveyor alignment, lubrication methods, and component materials to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance line stability. This process can also support SKU rationalization, consolidating part types across multiple lines to simplify inventory and reduce costs.

Further value can be added with operator training. Recognizing that modern beverage facilities often rely on third-party maintenance teams or have less component-specific knowledge, Regal Rexnord empowers both operators and maintenance staff with practical training. This includes teaching how to identify components, perform preventative maintenance, and understand the behavior of new technologies, such as run dry conveyors.

Upgrading existing lines

In fact, converting existing systems to run dry has become a hot topic in the drinks industry as manufacturers seek to reduce water and chemical use. Regal Rexnord offers full feasibility studies and changeover recommendations, including materials and component upgrades needed to eliminate wet lubrication. Their in-depth training ensures operators understand the new system to prevent reverting to old habits that can compromise performance.

All data from surveys and inspections is stored securely on Regal Rexnord’s customer portal, where users can update part replacements and align the database with their own enterprise resource planning (ERP) information. This integration streamlines ordering, supports effective asset management, and provides clear insight into future maintenance needs, often aiding annual budget planning.

With decades of experience and a deep understanding of the beverage production environment, Regal Rexnord Premium Services offer much more than maintenance. It’s a partnership in reliability, performance, and sustainability, helping manufacturers get the most out of every link in the chain.

Regal Rexnord’s 30,000 associates around the world help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controllers, drives, precision motors, and actuators, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision tools used in surgical applications.
 
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include discrete automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, and metals and mining.
 
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.