Tetra Pak has won the Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award (MIMA) 2026 in the Scale! category for its next-generation automation and digital portfolio, Tetra Pak Factory OS. The Scale! award recognizes intelligent industrial solutions leading the way in the breadth of value chains, clients or internal processes they impact, across different levels of maturity.
Tetra Pak Factory OS is a suite of modular, open and scalable smart factory technologies designed for food and beverage production. By unifying automation, data and analytics into a consistent, factory-wide operating environment, it connects equipment regardless of age or supplier, transforming fragmented factory data into a unified, contextualized, real-time view.
The judges recognized Tetra Pak Factory OS for its ability to help food and beverage producers expand output, introduce new products more quickly and reduce production costs in an increasingly challenging geopolitical and economic environment. As rising food prices and input costs place pressure on food producers, the platform enables food and beverage producers to improve efficiency and strengthen operational resilience while safeguarding product quality.
Deployable across sites with varying levels of digital maturity, Tetra Pak Factory OS strengthens operational performance, accelerates digital transformation at scale and opens new growth opportunities by bringing coherence, repeatability and intelligence to end-to-end factory operations.
Built with security-by-design and layered defenses to protect operations and data amid today’s heightened geopolitical cyber risk, it provides an AI-ready foundation that turns real-time data into contextualized insights for faster, smarter decisions.
Sean Sims, vice president, automation and solutions at Tetra Pak, says, “Food and beverage producers are under increasing pressure to deliver more, with fewer resources, while also remaining competitive in uncertain markets. This award recognizes the real-world impact of advanced industrial automation making factory data usable and actionable at scale. With Tetra Pak Factory OS, food and beverage producers can turn complexity into clarity, continuously improve performance and build a digital foundation that is ready for the next wave of AI-driven manufacturing.”
The Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award (MIMA) recognizes innovative industrial solutions that drive measurable impact through intelligent manufacturing technologies. Granted by Microsoft and Roland Berger, the award followed a competitive evaluation process.
Tetra Pak was shortlisted and presented its solution to an independent jury before being named winner in the Scale! category. Tetra Pak Factory OS will be formally recognized at Hannover Messe on 22 April 2026.
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Naresh Khanna – 10 February 2025
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