Pernod Ricard: Scaling operational intelligence across 30 facilities
Altizon’s DFX Platform unified Pernod Ricard’s production, quality, and sustainability data by replacing fragmented, paper-based…
DFX, AI-native MES, brings production, quality, downtime, traceability, and operator actions into one live record, giving food and beverage manufacturers the visibility to run better today and the data foundation to apply AI tomorrow.
DFX delivers MES as a set of apps on one data model, one entity hierarchy, and one security model. Data is captured once on the floor and is available everywhere in real time.
Most MES platforms add AI later, as a reporting feature. DFX is built so that the record itself is the foundation that an industrial agent needs.
Models trained on the production record can help teams identify patterns and anticipate issues before they affect output, quality, or reliability.
AI agents can monitor the live production record and surface what needs attention, so teams can act before small issues become larger losses.
DFX is built around the operating realities of the food and beverage industry, such as recipes, batches, quality checks, sanitation cycles, material traceability, holds, exceptions, and audit-ready records.
Altizon’s DFX Platform unified Pernod Ricard’s production, quality, and sustainability data by replacing fragmented, paper-based…
Altizon’s DFX Platform helped large beverages major connect multi-OEM bottling lines and utilities into a…
| Metric | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Availability | Share of scheduled time equipment is actually running |
| Performance | How close the line runs to its designed speed |
| Quality | Good output as a share of total produced |
| OEE | Availability × Performance × Quality |
| Downtime Booking Compliance | Share of downtime formally recorded with a reason |
| MTBF | Mean time between failures (equipment reliability) |
| MTTR | Mean time to repair after a failure |
| Quality Index (QI) | Composite quality score per line and SKU |
| First Time Quality (FTQ) | Product passing without a hold |
| Process Index (PI) | Adherence of quality parameters (out-of-spec rate) |
| GMP Score | Good Manufacturing Practice compliance |
| Checklist Compliance | On-time completion of scheduled checks |
SCADA monitors and controls equipment in real time at the device level. An MES sits a layer above (ISA-95 Level 3), recording and orchestrating the whole production operation across machines, lines, and plants. DFX consumes SCADA and PLC signals as inputs to that fuller record.
In practice, yes. SaaS (software as a service) is the subscription model where a vendor hosts and maintains the software; "cloud" describes where it runs. A cloud MES is normally delivered as SaaS, which is how DFX is offered.
Both run and record production. The difference is where the software lives and who maintains it. An on-premise MES runs on servers you install and patch at each plant, which leaves every site on its own island. A cloud MES runs in the cloud, with no per-site servers, central updates, and one record across every plant. On-premise still has a place for sites with no reliable connectivity or strict air-gap requirements.
Both run and record production. The difference is where the software lives and who maintains it. An on-premise MES runs on servers you install and patch at each plant, which leaves every site on its own island. A cloud MES runs in the cloud, with no per-site servers, central updates, and one record across every plant. On-premise still has a place for sites with no reliable connectivity or strict air-gap requirements.
A software connector at the plant reads machines and control systems over standard industrial protocols and streams the data to the cloud. There is no new control hardware to add, and the same connector can also feed alerts to Slack and pull production orders from your ERP.
Data capture and time-critical operator tools run on the connector at the plant, so collecting machine data and recording production do not depend on a live cloud link moment to moment. If the connection drops briefly, the connector keeps recording locally and reconciles with the 6 Confidential cloud when it returns. How much local buffering each site needs is sized during deployment.
DFX is built for regulated operations: SOC 2 controls, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access so people see only what they should, and timestamped audit trails and traceability that meet food and beverage requirements.
Yes. In a shared multi-tenant cloud your data is logically separated so other companies cannot see it. If you need physical isolation, DFX also runs as a dedicated private cloud on your own infrastructure.
DFX is a cloud subscription that scales with how many plants, lines, and machines you connect and which modules you deploy. You can start with the lines that matter most and expand from there, with no upfront server cost.
Start with the lines that matter most and see measurable OEE, quality, and traceability gains in weeks.