Inaugural meeting will feature speakers from Walmart, Auburn University and RFID Journal
February 16, 2022
GS1 US has established a cross-industry radio frequency identification (RFID) discussion group that seeks to address best practices for implementing electronic product code (EPC)–enabled RFID to support supply chain and inventory management imperatives.
We wanted to learn more about automating material transfer and what food processors need to know to use it most effectively. Here, we sit down with Forrester to find out how food processors can assess their material transfer system and determine if automation is right for them.
While we hope the COVID-19 pandemic is fading into the background, we still need to be concerned with labor shortages, transportation interruptions, political issues, weather extremes, and other peripheral circumstances that can still break critical links in the supply chain.
Fortuna brings to the position 25 years of experience in leading complex capital equipment projects
January 7, 2022
Global process equipment manufacturer Volkmann GmbH, Soest, Germany, has named Dominick Fortuna president of Volkmann USA, headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
While there have been many success stories, blockchain technologies are still developing, so producers and processors will need to examine their needs carefully
Blockchain providers are working hard to gain the acceptance of food and beverage processors—no matter their size, and standard datasets like GS1 are helping to define the rules for consistent information handling.
Many large food and beverage manufacturers have their own engineering staffs, which provide system integration and automation services to their various facilities. However, most medium- and small-sized processors often don’t have these capabilities—and may have just a single plant engineer.