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Tobacco Industry

Tobacco Industry

Tobacco Industry

OnSuite TMC

Tobacco production requires simultaneous control of OPC UA machinery, GSCA event workflows, and TPD track-and-trace obligations. OnSuite TMC provides a vendor-neutral, standards-based data layer for this environment.

Running live in 9 countries with 300 connected machines across 28 OEM brands.

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Countries

with active OPC UA TMC deployment

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Connected Machines

with live data flow

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Conformance Units

covered by OPC UA TMC scope

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OEM Brands

including Hauni, Decoufle, GD, and Comas

Needs

Multi-brand machine landscape

Hauni, Decoufle, Comas, GD, and more, each with different communication behavior.

GSCA event governance

End-to-end handling of quality and safety incidents with audit readiness.

TPD and unit-level traceability

Mandatory serialization under EU Tobacco Products Directive requirements.

MES/SCADA/historian integration

Plug-and-play interoperability with existing enterprise systems.

Fast commissioning

Reduced engineering and startup effort for new lines and sites.

Our solutions

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OnSuite TMC - Vendor-Neutral

OPC UA Tobacco Machine Communication standard with no vendor lock-in.

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Support for 13 Conformance Units

Coverage for machine classes including cigarette makers, filter makers, and packers.

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Secure OPC UA architecture

Encryption, certificate-based authentication, and field-proven reliability.

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Standardized data and alarm model

Consistent tag structures across lines for global comparability.

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OnSuite Trace + Live + Optima

Production genealogy, OEE tracking, and bottleneck/downtime analytics.

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GSCA Kanban and dashboard

Incident management, root-cause analysis, and compliance evidence.

Results

Vendor lock-in is eliminated

Switching machine brands requires no repeated integration engineering.

Commissioning time is shortened

Plug-and-play OPC UA TMC reduces rollout time from weeks to days.

Consistent KPIs across all lines

OEE for the same SKU can be compared across plants using a shared metric model.

Faster audit preparation

GSCA records are available instantly through the system.

Targeted recall capability

Only affected units are isolated instead of recalling entire batches.

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Featured Product - Dedicated Site

OnSuite TMC - Standardized Data Communication for Tobacco

A vendor-neutral, secure, and scalable OPC UA TMC solution with a live dedicated product site and demo flow.

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References

JTI
Philip Morris International
Philsa
Turkish Tobacco

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