Food Engineering

It's essential to remember that the primary goal of food manufacturers is to provide products for consumers. Understanding consumer demand, trends, and behaviors is key, as these factors greatly impact product and process design.

What if the smartest equipment is not the most advanced, but the most dependable? Dave Cobb examines how quality, maintenance, and long-term reliability truly intersect.

The Harrisonville location will transform a long-blighted property into a processing, packaging, and warehousing facility with the potential to bring 20 jobs to the community.

The new facility will ultimately create 150 new jobs in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

To keep the culture and grow the company, Coconut Cult partnered with Integrated Packaging Machinery to implement its first robotic automation system, featuring three custom KUKA robots at the company's manufacturing facility in Utah.

As Koch Foods evaluated its endpoint strategy, it faced a familiar issue for many manufacturers: how to modernize IT infrastructure without increasing operational complexity or sacrificing reliability.

Combining safety cutters and accessories from Klever, PHC and Slice, FoodProtect gives food safety, quality assurance and operations teams a standardized way to manage the cutting tools used on the line.

The DTS 5000 Series uses a long internal air path that draws hot air from above heat-generating components and delivers cooled air below, helping maintain uniform enclosure temperatures.

The FDA notes the number of confirmed cases is expected to rise, despite a recall initiated by Taylor Farms, since it can take as long as six weeks for the CDC and state officials to determine if a sick person is part of the outbreak.

Laboratory, epidemiological and traceback data indicate that shell eggs recalled by Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. are a likely source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 100.

This visual overview, featuring images and videos of robotics applications in the food industry, illustrates what is possible with modern vision systems, artificial intelligence and robotics in a range of applications — from agricultural harvesting to serving up RTE meals, smart palletization and carcass cutting.

Ken's Foods implemented an on-machine architecture with Rockwell Automation PowerFlex 350 variable frequency drives (VFDs) accessible directly on production equipment, simplifying operations and delivering measurable gains.

The CHF 520 million ($648 million) facility will combine a wet pet food plant with a highly efficient logistics platform serving Purina as well as other Nestlé brands.

Finsterwald brings more than 15 years of leadership experience and will oversee CRB's technology, IT and data functions.

The agency also seeks to revoke authorization for use of Citrus Red. No. 2, used for coloring skins of mature oranges.

AI may dominate industry conversations, but data modeling is delivering measurable results today. Discover how food, dairy and pet food manufacturers are using real-time production data to improve quality, increase throughput and give operators the insights needed to drive smarter decisions.

The world of smart packaging comprises many parts — intelligent equipment, recyclable materials, captivating art and lots of data — but pulling it together is a challenge. However, if done correctly, it benefits everyone in the supply chain from producer to consumer with timely information.

For food and beverage manufacturers, global events like the World Cup represent both a massive commercial opportunity and an operational pressure cooker.

The system is designed for common pre-printed, pressure-sensitive labeling applications across rigid and flexible primary packaging, including containers, trays, pouches and promotional bottle labeling.

Designed specifically for packaged applications, the X56 DXD+ delivers enhanced contamination detection capabilities where low-density contaminants, such as rubber and plastics, must be reliably detected.