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Food Date Confusion and Traceability: Reducing waste in food manufacturing
By Darcy Simonis, ABB This article discusses how food manufacturers can help reduce consumer food waste due to label confusion. -
Customization in Food Manufacturing
By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation This article explains how the future of food manufacturing will facilitate the same level of customization, automatically. -
Cooling Tower Optimization
By Darcy Simonis, ABB Food and beverage production requires a large range of temperatures. This means that plants must have effective cooling systems to deal with the excess heat. Removing the excess heat from the system requires a cooling tower, however, traditional designs require frequent maintenance -
KPM Analytics announces acquisition of Sightline Process Control
Sightline Process Control is a company specializing in 3D color vision and automated inspection systems for the food production process. -
2018 Salary Survey Results: The Pay Raise Engineers Have Been Waiting for
The financial situation of the average automation engineer got a nice boost in 2018. With the need for experienced professionals still growing, we anticipate the demand to remain strong for engineers for the foreseeable future, with a great deal of opportunity for young graduates and those who are interested in a STEM career. -
HorizonScan Study: Global Food Safety Issues Increasing for Manufacturers
For manufacturers, the stakes have never been higher. Under FSMA regulations, failure to implement an effective supply chain risk management program could subject food companies and their officers to significant liability and even criminal charges. -
The Instagram Effect: How social media is changing the food and beverage plant
By Darcy Simonis, ABB Anyone who uses social media will know how prevalent pictures of food are. This article looks at how the impact of social media is changing the priorities of food and beverage managers. -
Predicting the Future of Industrial Maintenance
By Gernut van Laak, Group Automation Solutions Leader, ABB Food and Beverage The need for factory maintenance often goes unnoticed. This article explains how plant managers can budget for maintenance and ensure optimum efficiency for all processes. -
Managing Compliance in Food Production
By Dominique Stucki, ABB Control Technology There was widespread panic across Europe in mid-2017 when millions of eggs were recalled due to being contaminated with Fipronil — a highly toxic insecticide that is banned in the EU. -
Digitalization and the Food and Beverage Industry
By Robert Glass, ABB Digitalization encompasses a transformation in the way industrial environments work. For the food and beverage industry, this means companies can better comply with legislation through a transformation in areas including connectivity, smart sensors, traceability, cloud computing and monitoring. -
Dematic helps Australian meat company implement automated buffer system
The Dematic Meat Buffer storage and handling solution will work to provide better visibility of product flow and accuracy at the meat processing facility. -
MonarchFx announces Matthew Sinn as Vice President of Food and Beverage sector
Sinn’s core focus will be helping companies, leveraging the MonarchFx ecosystem, to build customer-centric fulfillment systems. -
Dematic to help Australian grocery retailer install robotic order fulfillment system
The robotic system will be used to piece pick inventory items for retail store replenishment using a “goods-to-robot” configuration. The order fulfillment system will support replenishment of approximately 50 retail stores and is scheduled to start up during the 2nd quarter of 2019 in a new distribution center building. -
AVEVA partners with TOMRA to embed SCADA technology for produce industry
The first Compac product resulting from this partnership is Smartline, which is built on Wonderware by AVEVA. Smartline features an operational dashboard for visualisation of line performance and a user interface designed to facilitate line control for packhouses of all sizes. -
ABB announces Darcy Simonis as Industry Network Leader for food and beverage
In her new role at ABB, Darcy will continue to develop and strengthen ABB’s global food and beverage business. She will drive the growth plan together with the food and beverage country and business leads. -
Westfalia Technologies releases Automation and the Modern Bakery whitepaper
In a white paper titled, “Automation and the Modern Bakery,” Westfalia discusses how implementing automation can help manufacturers of baked goods overcome challenges -
MonarchFx announces launch of its food and beverage sector
Simultaneous to the launch of the food and beverage sector, the company also announced the appointment of Keith Goldsmith, Senior Vice President of MonarchFx. -
Exploring the World of Virtual Commissioning
By Robert Glass, ABB Industry 4.0 continues to open up new opportunities across food and beverage manufacturing. Virtual commissioning is one of these key technologies. This article explores the concept of virtual commissioning and how system testing can benefit the food industry. -
Automating the Food and Drink Industry
By Nigel Smith, TM Robotics Many industries have already made the jump to automated processes. However, it’s only been in recent years that the food and beverage industry has begun to truly explore what automation and robotic technology has to offer. -
Going Plastic-Free: Exploring the world of sustainable food packaging
By Robert Glass, ABB Recently, Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza opened the world’s first plastic-free aisle in one of its stores in Amsterdam. More supermarkets will likely follow. Will food manufacturers will need to rethink their food packaging materials?
