Food Engineering

Food manufacturers looking to boost throughput and reduce downtime may be overlooking a critical part of the production line: product movement. Discover how smarter conveyance, accumulation, and hygienic design strategies can improve efficiency, support automation, reduce product damage, and create more resilient operations.

Salling brings more than 25 years of experience in business development, market strategy and client growth across the life sciences sector.

The planned transition comes as the South Jersey-based company builds on its position as a manufacturer of premium and organic private label sauces and dressings.

While the mixing and blending of liquid ingredients into a liquid product is an exact, controlled process, combining dry ingredients has unique challenges that have been difficult to control with automation. Finally, sensors and automation are here to help.

The recalls making headlines are not happening because food manufacturers stopped caring about safety. They are happening because the systems designed to catch problems are built to record what happened, not to prevent what is about to happen. This is one area where agentic AI can be transformational for food supply chains.

TempTale GEO APX Global monitors temperature, humidity, light and location, and transmits data automatically, without manual downloads, to the SensiWatch Platform.

The System 4+ controller monitors power consumption and uses dynamic speed curves to reduce energy use and parts wear.

The cultivated meat sector faces many challenges, especially in scaling production. AI — and in particular hybrid model digital twins — can help overcome critical hurdles to industry viability.

The factory in Batavia, Ohio is Purina's first new plant built from the ground up since 1975 and the largest investment Nestlé has made in a Purina manufacturing facility to date.

As part of an expanded partnership with Keurig Dr Pepper, Chobani will acquire its manufacturing facility and warehouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania, including its equipment and related infrastructure.

FOOD ENGINEERING EIC Alyse Thompson-Richards recaps some recent plant openings and expansions in the food and beverage industry.

Documentation is written to demonstrate compliance, but the knowledge that keeps lines running lives somewhere else entirely: in the heads and hands of a shrinking group of veteran operators.

BNP Media donates the Meat Industry Hall of Fame to the Meat Institute, as the association partners with the American Association of Meat Processors and American Meat Science Association to govern the Hall.

The FDA proposes making the GRAS notification program mandatory, requiring food substances to demonstrate safety for their intended use, aiming to enhance transparency and regulation. The process would apply to both existing and new substances, with some exceptions, and initial evaluations would take 45 days.

The GCMS-TQ RX Series features a multimode injection unit that enhances operational efficiency and streamlines method development.

The LD151 series offers a 250 psi pressure rating up to 24 inches, expanding its suitability for high pressure HVAC installations, commercial mechanical rooms, industrial processing systems, chilled water systems, cooling tower loops and other mission-critical cooling applications.

Wells Enterprises, a U.S. ice cream manufacturer and part of the Ferrero Group, has completed the first two phases of the $425 million facility’s transformation.

Located at Austin Innovation Park, the new office marks Dennis Group’s fifth location in the United States and reflects the firm’s growth alongside increasing demand for food manufacturing infrastructure throughout Texas and the surrounding region.

Frick Brunkhorst joined the 130-year-old company at age 15 and has spent the past 25 years working across nearly every aspect of the business, from the production floor to product development, branding and long-term strategic planning.

Some new ERP providers are building their systems from scratch totally on AI, but can their systems fulfill all the demands that manufacturers have expected from conventional ERP over the years?