The Netherlands is a small county, yet it is one of the world’s largest food and beverage producers. A significant part of the food and beverage sector has been located originally in the Zaanstreek, so it is not a coincidence that CoNet is situated in the heart of the food industry, the former ‘Verkade’ factory in Zaandam.
We indeed understand the food and beverage sector inside out. We know that the production has to comply with the highest quality requirements and continue at all times. With regards to the production of food and beverages, we have much to offer. We offer not only the knowledge of automation systems but also a throughout understanding of this sector.
Are you active in the food and beverage sector and would like more information about batch, route control, tracking & tracing, standards for code, operation, and or visualization philosophy? Contact CoNet, and we will help to create a perfect solution for you.

Completed projects in this sector:
Masterclass CoNet during the Siemens Food & Beverage event
In order to keep up with global developments, digitalization is essential for the Dutch Food & Beverage-sector as well. During the masterclass event ‘Working together on the digital transition in Food & Beverage’, which was held March 12th(2019), Siemens and...
Cargill Berlin – another international challenge
It is no secret that CoNet has the ambition to expand her territory internationally. So, Cargill's request to help replace an aging DOS2000 system at her location in Berlin, Germany was enthusiastically welcomed! The project went beyond simply replacing the DOS2000...
Cargill Germany – Multiple Press migration
Om voorbereid te zijn op toekomstige uitbreidingen en om haar efficiency en "up-time" nog verder te verbeteren, besloot Cargill Berlijn om 9 cacao persen te laten migreren van het huidige S5 en S7 naar het PCS 7 platform. Mede vanwege de beperkte lokaal beschikbare...
Commissioning in IndonesiaInternational,PLC projects
Commissioning in Indonesia Commissioning is fun! All work prior to this had one single objective; enabling to produce better/safer/more reliable. This time CoNet was involved in a special commissioning project; we were conducting it in Indonesia! The relationship...
DMV enhances her grip on quality
DMV enhances her grip on quality "Quality assurance and monitoring of all process components" is more than a stringe of words to Veghel based DMV. The project to automate the new WPC plant was awarded to the combination Van Dooren Engineers & CoNet Rotterdam. A...
Dutch Cocoa SQL Data Writer
The company Dutch Cocoa produces high-grade cocoa products for the chocolate, dairy and cosmetic industry world-wide. In the Amsterdam cocoa plant, cocoa beans from Africa, South-America, Middle-America, South-East Asia and Brazil are transformed into cocoa mass,...
Hilton Meats – better and easier
Continuously and actively improving your production environment, quality and process management. Something the people at Hilton Meats in Zaandam know everything about. This time they expressed the wish to better manage recipe data, including the related parameters and...
Royaan improves her process quality & efficiency.
Royaan improves her process quality & efficiency. With the ambition to further manage her process quality and efficiency, Royaan sought a way to improve logging of production data and benefit from this information. Primary goal was to enable the process operators...
Upscaling processes – both a challenge and an opportunity!
Upscaling process components is a critical process. Allocating financial means in an too early state, might lead to investments in non-critical process area. But postponing investments might lead to a mismatch between production capacity and (market) demands, opening...
Cargill upgrades Aurora 1 to PCS 7
A factory maintenance stop is should be as short as possible, whilst still using the downtime to overhaul and update as much systems and functionality as possible. In a way, a stop is the best moment and ultimate opportunity to get a increasingly outdated process...