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Consumers continually seek the new and different, and prioritize taste and nutritional value. That means you must get new, high-quality products through your facility quickly, and keep prices low and food safer. Through The Connected Enterprise®, we help food and beverage manufacturers develop a more agile response to changing consumer tastes. The Connected Enterprise® leverages smart manufacturing to revolutionize the way food and beverage manufacturers operate, by providing accessibility to relevant, real-time information. Information-enabled manufacturing allows you to combat your biggest challenges:
- Improve yield
- Drive productivity
- Mitigate security risks
- Optimize resource management
- Enhance asset utilization
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Industry Challenges
Produce High-quality, Safe Food and Beverages
Optimize Operations to Improve Performance
We help food and beverage manufacturers ensure their operations are smart, safe, and sustainable. Our integrated automation and information solutions help our customers achieve greater efficiencies, maintain product quality and consistency, lower lifecycle costs, and enable more flexible manufacturing.
How Automation Works in the Food and Beverage Industry
What is Food and Beverage Automation?
Food and beverage automation refers to the automating of various processes throughout the food and beverage manufacturing industry. Food and beverage manufacturing is a complex industry. Producers must stay on top of inventory, packaging updates, price changes, and supply chain management while also ensuring compliance with industry regulations for safety, environmental standards, and statutory requirements.
Automation in the food industry enables F&B manufacturers to optimize product throughput, meet fluctuating demands, and reduce inventory waste, all while remaining compliant with regulatory requirements.
Benefits of Food and Beverage Automation
Given the complexity of the food manufacturing industry, food and beverage automation comes with a wide range of benefits, empowering producers to stay on top of their ever-changing processes. Some of the biggest benefits of food and beverage automation include:
Quality Management – food manufacturing automation solutions help producers ensure the quality of their products with full traceability of ingredients across the entire manufacturing process.
Production Control – F&B automation solutions empower producers to stay on top of any date-controlled inventory, adjusting ingredient ordering to reflect product demand. This ensures fewer ingredients are wasted when demand drops.
Compliance and Safety – automation enables producers to perform quality checks more often and with greater efficiency, ensuring all compliance and safety regulations are being met.
Types of Food and Beverage Automation
Automation in the food industry covers a wide range of processes, from automating tasks within internal systems like supply chain management and enterprise resource planning to automated production and packaging. Some common food and beverage automation solutions include:
- Food packaging
- Sorting systems
- Quality control inspection systems
- Picking and placing systems
- Food assembly
- Cooking and preparation