Vietnam’s food industry is clearly shifting toward convenience, health, and product diversification. According to PwC (2025), nearly 60% of Vietnamese consumers purchase prepared foods at least once a week, while 74% are highly concerned about ultra-processed foods and food safety issues. These changes are pushing companies to continuously develop new SKUs, adjust product formulations, and shorten time-to-market, while still maintaining consistent quality and controlling costs, as 47% of consumers continue to consider price a key factor when choosing food products. As a result, flexible production capabilities, precise process control, and improved operational efficiency are becoming increasingly critical requirements for food manufacturers.
Challenges Faced by Manufacturing Plants
- Inconsistent product quality: Maintaining consistent finished-product quality becomes difficult when processes such as Kansui dosing, flour moisture control, steaming, and frying are still operated manually rather than automatically.
- Fragmented production systems: Legacy controllers, standalone equipment, and closed OEM systems prevent production and energy data from being consolidated, limiting plant-wide visibility and monitoring.
- Increasing operational complexity: High-salt environments, packaging inspection requirements, and continuous capacity expansion place additional pressure on production stability and process consistency.
Tan Tien’s Solutions
1. Measurement Systems & Field Instrumentation Design and Integration: Survey, design, and fully configure OT electrical and control systems based on the customer’s production processes, technical documentation, and detailed drawings. Supply and integrate measurement instruments for production process monitoring and control.
2. PLC, SCADA and Batch Control: Design, program, and integrate PLC, SCADA, and Batch Control systems for the entire production line.
- Platforms
- Siemens SIMATIC S7
- Siemens PCS 7
- Rockwell Automation
3. Machine Vision and Traceability System: Automate packaging quality inspection and enhance product traceability.
4. OT Network and MES Integration: Design and deploy OT network infrastructure and integrate communications between PLC systems and MES for production data collection and exchange.
5. Energy and Utility Management: Collect and display real-time electricity, steam, and water consumption data through SCADA systems and energy management solutions.
6. Fabrication, Installation and Commissioning: Deliver turnkey projects from electrical panel fabrication through testing, acceptance, handover, and production line commissioning.
3. Machine Vision and Traceability System: Automatically inspect packaging quality and enhance product traceability.
- Services
- Electrical panel fabrication
- On-site installation
- Wiring, termination, and I/O testing
- FAT and SAT
- Testing and commissioning
- Operator training
- Technology transfer
- Maintenance support
Benefits for Customers
- Ensure stable and consistent product quality across production shifts
- Enable full traceability down to each production batch
- Monitor production output, downtime, and energy consumption of each production line in real time
- Reduce raw material losses, rework, and customer complaints
- Eliminate risks associated with obsolete or outdated control equipment
- Provide a single point of responsibility throughout the entire project, from field instrumentation to MES integration, supported by a team of 36 control and automation engineers and nationwide maintenance services
Tan Tien’s customers in the food industry are primarily large enterprises such as Masan, Nam Ngu Phu Quoc, Unilever Bestfoods Vietnam, Viet Tien Food, MeatDeli, Perfetti Van Melle, Sulmaq, and Proconco, all of which operate large-scale production systems with high requirements for stability, quality, and continuous operation. For Masan specifically, Tan Tien has implemented projects across multiple member companies, including Masan MSI, Masan Hau Giang, Masan MB, Masan HD, and Masan Industrial One Member Company Limited, demonstrating its capability to deploy and standardise solutions across multiple manufacturing sites.
Given the need to maintain consistent quality across numerous production lines while simultaneously digitalising production data, integrating MES, and controlling energy and raw material consumption without disrupting ongoing operations, Tan Tien addresses these requirements as a system integrator. The company manages the entire implementation process, helping customers standardise operations, improve production traceability and management capabilities, and expand production capacity.
