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Ecolab introduces Ecolab® CIP IQ™, an AI‑enhanced digital technology that changes how food and beverage manufacturers run Clean‑in‑Place (CIP) by pairing new sensor data with advanced analytics to optimize wash execution and free up meaningful capacity for innovation. With real-time visibility, exception alerting and AI‑driven insights, CIP IQ helps plants improve efficiency, quality and sustainability — while reclaiming time teams can reinvest in strategic initiatives.
In customer deployments, the technology has delivered measurable operational gains, including approximately 15%* more efficiency and reclaimed capacity. Customers also saw reductions of about 10%* in both water and energy use*, alongside improved product optimization.
Fifteen percent is a powerful number. By harnessing richer data from the wash itself and turning it into decision‑ready guidance, Ecolab helps customers reduce the routine time spent running CIP and reinvest that time in what grows the business — higher output, faster product innovation and smarter expansion.
Unlocking capacity for innovation
Purpose-built for food and beverage, CIP IQ provides a unified, real-time view of CIP performance with wash conformance scoring, consumption reporting and critical exception alerts.
Poor visibility into CIP performance hampers overall production capacity. Operators are left without answers to basic questions: Did the wash run? Was it effective? Was it efficient? Ecolab’s goal is to help food and beverage companies maintain reliable safety and quality while also supporting more productive, more sustainable business operations at every level.
The time and capacity gained with CIP IQ opens space to innovate strategically—whether that’s driving higher throughput on existing lines, developing new SKUs to meet changing consumer preferences, or exploring new categories and verticals.
Extending the power of CIP IQ
Ecolab’s Precise Wash capability is a module of CIP IQ, which uses real‑time soil load data from advanced sensors to help determine when active cleaning is complete, so teams can confidently move to the next step.
While Precise Wash is only one part of the broader CIP IQ technology, trials in dairy facilities have shown it can reduce alkaline wash time by 10–20% and unlock additional annual production output. These insights integrate with CIP IQ’s reporting and alerting to support compliance, continuous improvement and sustainability objectives across the plant. CIP IQ and its Precise Wash module are part of Ecolab's comprehensive approach to helping customers advance food safety and quality, optimize water usage, maximize productivity and lower costs of operations with state-of-the-art solutions for cleaning, sanitizing and pest control.
CIP IQ technology is available to food and beverage customers globally.
Additional information is available at ecolab.com.
Note: *Based on results from customer trials, which are specific to those individual customers when full Ecolab recommendations were implemented. Results will vary for other customers based on factors and circumstances in their operations
