In today’s world of trendy foods, fads and short product lifecycles, you need to do all you can to excite and entice customers into buying your products. However, there’s nothing worse than having a popular product that you can’t make fast enough to satisfy the demand from your customers. If you can’t meet the demand, your competition will make a Herculean effort to win your market share.
Automated plants can help put more product into the marketplace faster than non-automated plants, but automation technologies must be properly applied after careful planning to ascertain where and what to automate. The following stories illustrate the ways in which automation can be applied to both processing and packaging to speed up the process while improving quality and food safety.