Are you simply operating or continuously optimizing?
In complex production environments, staying in control is no longer enough. True performance comes from understanding your process, anticipating changes, and continuously optimizing operations.
With GEA OptiPartner® Powder, GEA combines deep equipment and process know-how, real-time data, and ongoing support to help you achieve stable, efficient, and future-ready performance.
The challenge behind your process
For years, maintaining performance has relied heavily on operator experience and manual adjustments, a constant balancing act. But as complexity increases, this approach becomes harder to sustain.
The solution: predictive process optimization
Built on GEA’s deep understanding of both equipment design and process behavior, the system brings engineering intelligence directly into daily operations.
The result is a stable process that operates closer to its true optimum, every second.
See your potential: calculate your benefits
Before making a decision, you can estimate the impact on your own operations. Use our performance calculator to explore potential gains in efficiency, capacity, and energy savings.
What makes OptiPartner® Powder different
Deep process and equipment understanding
OptiPartner® combines physics-based engineering models, real-time plant data, and GEA’s extensive equipment and process know-how. This hybrid approach allows the system to understand not only how your process should behave, but also how your specific equipment performs in real conditions.
Continuous optimization
Working like an autopilot, the system continuously monitors and adjusts your process. Instead of large corrective actions, it applies smooth, ongoing improvements that keep operations stable and efficient.
Measurable impact
By reducing variability and improving control, OptiPartner® helps increase production capacity, improve energy efficiency, and ensure more consistent product quality.Proof in practice: real customer results
OptiPartner® is already delivering measurable results across different production environments. From improving process stability and reducing energy consumption to increasing throughput and minimizing manual intervention, customers are seeing tangible benefits in their day-to-day operations.
Discover our customer cases to see how companies like yours are already optimizing their performance with OptiPartner®.
Go deeper: expert insights & white papers
OptiPartner® is already delivering measurable results across different production environments. From improving process stability and reducing energy consumption to increasing throughput and minimizing manual intervention, customers are seeing tangible benefits in their day-to-day operations.
Discover our customer cases to see how companies like yours are already optimizing their performance with OptiPartner®.
Optimization in spray drying starts with understanding
In spray drying, true optimization goes beyond control. It requires deep process understanding. With OptiPartner® Dairy Powder, GEA combines engineering expertise, real-time data and continuous support to help producers unlock stable, effective and more sustainable performance.
See it in action
Understanding is one thing, seeing it is another. Our videos show how OptiPartner® operates in real production environments and how customers and experts use it to improve performance every day. Watch our videos to see predictive optimization in practice.
More than software: a performance partnership
Your process is not static and neither is OptiPartner®. As operating conditions evolve over time, so does the system. With GEA’s ongoing support, performance is continuously monitored, models are refined, and optimization adapts to your real operating environment. This ensures that improvements are not only achieved, but sustained over the long term.
Empowering your team
OptiPartner® is designed to support operators, not replace them. By reducing the need for constant manual monitoring and adjustments, it brings greater consistency to process performance while capturing and embedding valuable process knowledge. This allows your team to shift their focus to higher-value activities such as optimization, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
Designed for your industry
OptiPartner® is built to adapt to a wide range of Dairy and Chemical production environments. Whether applied to different plant sizes, processes, or industries, it scales to meet specific operational needs. In every case, the objective remains the same: helping you achieve more with less, less energy, less waste, and less variability.
Ready to optimize your process?
Whether your goal is to improve efficiency, increase capacity, or stabilize operations, OptiPartner® helps you move from control to performance.
OptiPartner® applications across industries
Dairy and food ingredients
GEA OptiPartner® advanced process control enables producers of nutritional formula, milk powders, food and dairy ingredients to increase residual moisture in dairy and food powders by improving process stability.
Chemical powders
GEA OptiPartner® improves quality of powders such as battery materials, dyestuff and other chemicals by reducing process variations, allowing for reduced production stops and increased yield.
Instant coffee
Advanced process control helps improve instant coffee product quality. GEA OptiPartner® stabilizes the process, reducing the impact of disturbances while respecting operational contraints, resulting in less waste and re-work.
A digital autopilot accross technologies: spray drying, evaporation and freeze drying
Dairy evaporation
GEA OptiPartner® provides process optimization for thermal and mechanical vapor recompression evaporation plants for the dairy industry.
Spray drying
Optimize the productivity of spray drying plants with GEA OptiPartner® and GEA’s operational expertise. Applicable for both multi-stage and single stage spray drying plants, with or without external fluid beds.
Freeze drying
GEA OptiPartner® also allows for increased process stability and optimum performance for instant coffee production, particularly when used in conjunction with GEA CONRAD® freeze drying plants.
Resource efficient solution
GEA OptiPartner® is one of our most resource-efficient solutions, and carries the Add Better label.
Through the application of advanced model-predictive control, GEA OptiPartner® improves process stability and capacity utilization in spray dryer applications, leading to a potential reduction of up to 10% in energy consumption per kilogram of product when compared to traditional process control systems.
*The Add Better label relates to the serial product GEA OptiPartner®, released in July 2021.
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