You’ve automated your process and packaging and have computer-generated paper trails to show food safety and quality throughout your facility. Why wouldn’t you do the same with cleaning—wherever it’s practical? Granted, there are certain pieces of equipment you just have to take out of the process to clean manually, but for other components—like piping, some conveyor belting, certain pumps, mixers, tanks and other equipment—you can clean them in place (CIP) and have automated recordkeeping to show proof of cleaning and sanitation to regulating bodies when they ask.

European wheat processor now offers plant-based solutions to manufacturers in Central and North America.

The company’s new in-plant vine remover machine preps potatoes by separating and removing vines from product flow.

Having an energy budget enables you to look into your facility’s operations with full understanding of its efficiency and financial goals to grow into the future.

Steam, like compressed air, is expensive to generate and easy to waste through leaks and any number of other issues.

Six different ways to improve efficiency in your processing facility and technology that you can utilize to help achieve your goals.

Struggling to see value from Industry 4.0 technologies? Time to put people at your core.

FE’s 2022 State of Food Manufacturing survey found that 58% of respondents believe their facilities are understaffed. Some are turning to automation to help bridge the gap, others are turning to previously underused or overlooked sources of human staffing.

To minimize product loss and meet carbon emission regulations, dairy facilities must ensure they are monitoring timing and processing parameters to prevent dairy product from literally going down the drain.

During the last decade or so, the benefits of aseptic filling technology compared to traditional hot filling techniques have become well known in the food and drink sector. The benefits in terms of product quality have been well documented and discussed.¹ However, the environmental benefits, both in terms of energy consumption and typical lifecycle analysis of this packaging method are less understood.